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Graphene oxide-based fluorometric determination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by using target-triggered chain reaction and deoxyribonuclease-assisted recycling

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The authors describe a method for the fluorometric determination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by exploiting target-triggered chain reactions and deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I)-aided target recycling. It is making use of a carboxy-fluorescein (FAM)-labeled single-stranded probe containing two sections. One is complementary to the 5′ terminus of the target, while the 3′ terminus of the other target is adsorbed on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) via π-stacking interactions without the target (16S rRNA). This adsorption results in quenching of the fluorescence of the label and protects it from being cleaved by DNase I. However, upon addition of the target, DNA/RNA hybrids are repelled by GO. This leads to fluorescence recovery as measured at excitation/emission wavelengths of 480/514 nm due to a chain reaction that is triggered by the target. The signal is strongly amplified by using DNase I-mediated target recycling. The 16S rRNA of MRSA can be detected by this method in the 1 to 30 nM concentration range, and the detection limit is 0.02 nM. The method was applied to analyze bacterial samples, and the detection limit is as low as 30 CFU . mL−1. The assay is highly sensitive and selective and in our percpetion has a large potential in diagnosis of drug-resistant bacteria.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank National Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province(2016JJ3098), Outstanding Youth Scientific Research Project Funded by Education department of Hunan Province (15B169), Key Project Funded by Hunan traditional Chinese medicine administration (201711), Science and Technology Innovation Team in Colleges and Universities in Hunan Province《Chinese traditional medicine for treatment of infectious diseases》(No: 15, Grxjb-7), Doctor start-up Foundation of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (9982-1001019), Key Subjects of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine《pathogenic biology》(NO.1) and Project Funded by Hunan Provincial Level Course《Immunology and pathogenic biology》(No. 48) for the financial support.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, The Medicine School of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, 410208, People’s Republic of China

    Yi Ning, Li Zou, Qiang Gao, Jue Hu & Fangguo Lu

  2. Key Discipline of Pathogenic Biology, The University Innovation Team of Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, 410208, People’s Republic of China

    Fangguo Lu

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Ning, Y., Zou, L., Gao, Q. et al. Graphene oxide-based fluorometric determination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by using target-triggered chain reaction and deoxyribonuclease-assisted recycling. Microchim Acta 185, 183 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-018-2702-0

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