<p>Accurate, sensitive and multiplexed detection of food-borne pathogens is crucial for assessing food safety risks. Here we present a digital DNA-amplification-free nucleic acid detection assay to achieve multiplexed and ultrasensitive detection of three food-borne pathogens. We used mesophilic <i>Clostridium butyricum</i> argonaute and ma<Emphasis Type="Underline">g</Emphasis>netic beads in a digital carrier system (d-MAGIC). <i>Clostridium butyricum</i> argonaute, with its two-guide accurate cleavage activity, precisely targets and cleaves fluorescence-quencher reporters corresponding to different bacteria through a two-step process. The system uses fluorescence-encoded magnetic beads as programmable multi-probes, allowing the simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens and easy data interpretation via artificial intelligence. The method showed a wide detection range (10<sup>1</sup> to 10<sup>7</sup> CFU ml<sup>−1</sup>) and a low limit of detection of 6 CFU ml<sup>−1</sup> for food-borne pathogens without DNA amplification. Digital nucleic acid testing using d-MAGIC can become a next-generation strategy for accurate and convenient pathogen detection.</p>

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Multiplexed food-borne pathogen detection using an argonaute-mediated digital sensor based on a magnetic-bead-assisted imaging transcoding system

  • Zhipan Wang,
  • Xinrui Cheng,
  • Aimin Ma,
  • Feng Jiang,
  • Yiping Chen

摘要

Accurate, sensitive and multiplexed detection of food-borne pathogens is crucial for assessing food safety risks. Here we present a digital DNA-amplification-free nucleic acid detection assay to achieve multiplexed and ultrasensitive detection of three food-borne pathogens. We used mesophilic Clostridium butyricum argonaute and magnetic beads in a digital carrier system (d-MAGIC). Clostridium butyricum argonaute, with its two-guide accurate cleavage activity, precisely targets and cleaves fluorescence-quencher reporters corresponding to different bacteria through a two-step process. The system uses fluorescence-encoded magnetic beads as programmable multi-probes, allowing the simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens and easy data interpretation via artificial intelligence. The method showed a wide detection range (101 to 107 CFU ml−1) and a low limit of detection of 6 CFU ml−1 for food-borne pathogens without DNA amplification. Digital nucleic acid testing using d-MAGIC can become a next-generation strategy for accurate and convenient pathogen detection.