Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a multiplex loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification detection method and a kit based on high-resolution melting.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a multiplex loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification detection method based on high-resolution melting comprises the following steps:
1) Target sequence singleplex LAMP amplification
Selecting target sequences according to different target genes to be detected in each target detection sample, designing corresponding primers (standard LAMP specific primers) aiming at the target sequences, extracting DNA in the target detection sample, and taking the DNA as a template; carrying out single LAMP amplification reaction on the template and the corresponding primers, and determining a reaction system of the LAMP amplification reaction according to a reaction result (mainly determining the effectiveness of the primers aiming at the target sequence);
2) Multiple LAMP reaction condition optimization
Combining the target detection sample related to the step 1) in pairs, then simultaneously carrying out LAMP amplification reaction on the two corresponding templates after combination, obtaining a high-resolution melting curve after amplification reaction, and then optimizing the reaction conditions of the amplification reaction according to the difference degree of melting peaks corresponding to the two amplification products; combining the optimization results of the reaction conditions corresponding to different target detection sample combinations (taking intersection) to obtain the reaction conditions of the multiple LAMP amplification reaction;
3) Multiplex amplification assay
After the step 2), extracting DNA in a sample to be detected, performing multiple LAMP amplification reaction by using the DNA as a template, obtaining a high-resolution melting curve after the amplification reaction, then normalizing the high-resolution melting curve or performing principal component analysis on the high-resolution melting curve, then comparing the high-resolution melting curve with a standard high-resolution melting curve model (curve set) which is constructed by the same normalization or principal component analysis, and identifying a single target sequence or a plurality of target sequences contained in the sample to be detected according to the comparison result, thereby identifying the type of a target detection object contained in the sample.
Preferably, the DNA is extracted by a kit method.
Preferably, the optimization of the reaction conditions is mainly directed to the reaction temperature (amplification temperature required for real-time fluorescent amplification by LAMP).
Preferably, in the step 2), the optimizing the reaction conditions of the amplification reaction specifically includes the following steps: determining the difference of melting temperatures of amplification products obtained by simultaneously amplifying the two templates, if the difference of the melting temperatures is greater than 3 ℃, selecting the reaction temperature at which the areas of corresponding melting peaks of the amplification products of the two templates are equal to each other as the optimized reaction temperature, and if the difference of the melting temperatures is less than or equal to 3 ℃, selecting the reaction temperature at which the normalized high-resolution melting curves of the amplification products of the two templates are located between the normalized high-resolution melting curves of the amplification products of the corresponding single template as the optimized reaction temperature.
Preferably, the method for constructing the standard high-resolution melting curve model specifically comprises the following steps: after the step 2), performing multiple LAMP amplification reactions on templates corresponding to any one or any number of combinations in the target detection sample related to the step 1) by using primers aiming at all target sequences respectively, then obtaining a high-resolution melting curve, and performing feature extraction on the corresponding high-resolution melting curve contour by adopting normalization or principal component analysis respectively.
Preferably, the target sequence is selected from one or more of the fem gene of Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus), virR gene of Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria monocytogenes), invA gene of salmonella.
Preferably, in the step 3), the multiple LAMP amplification reaction is selected from more than three LAMP amplification reactions.
A multiple loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification detection kit based on high resolution melting comprises reagents for constructing a reaction system of LAMP amplification reaction and a standard high resolution melting curve model for comparing target sequence amplification products of multiple target genes, wherein the model is obtained by normalizing or analyzing main components of high resolution melting curves of amplification products of one or any number of combinations in different target sequences; the reagents include standard LAMP-specific primers for amplification of the corresponding target sequence and a single nucleic acid dye (e.g., evaGreen) for LAMP real-time fluorescent amplification.
Preferably, the reagent further comprises a Buffer (e.g., 10 × Isothermal Amplification Buffer), dntps, betaine, magnesium sulfate, bst DNA polymerase, and the like, separately packaged components, and ultrapure water.
Preferably, the amplification reaction system and reaction conditions of the kit are determined by referring to the above steps 1) and 2), the method of using the kit is referred to the above step 3), and the model construction is performed by referring to the method of constructing the standard high-resolution melting curve model.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the present invention combines multiplex LAMP and HRM techniques, extracts melting characteristics from the entire melting curve profile using high resolution melting, rather than relying solely on Tm values, so that minor Tm differences can be clearly distinguished between two LAMP amplicons. And multiple target sources in the LAMP reaction can be intuitively identified by comparing the sample melting characteristics with the established standard HRM model. The invention has the advantages of sequence specificity, closed tube, lower cost and easy operation of the detection method, and can simply and conveniently realize the multiple LAMP detection.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. The examples are given solely for the purpose of illustration and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
The invention establishes a multiplex LAMP detection technology based on high-resolution melting curve analysis (HRM) identification based on the difference of Tm values of three amplified target segments (namely target sequences).
Feasibility of high-resolution melting detection of multiple loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification
1. Design of LAMP primers
1.1 adopting a fem gene conserved sequence of Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus) as a target sequence S1, and amplifying specific primers of the S1 as follows:
S.aur-F 3 (5’-3’):TTTAACAGCTAAAGAGTTTGGT
S.aur-B 3 (5’-3’):TTTCATAATCGATCACTGGAC
S.aur-FIP(5’-3’):CCTTCAGCAAAGCTTTAACTCATAGTTTTTCAGATAGCATGC CATACAGTC
S.aur-BIP(5’-3’):ACAATAATAACGAGGTCATTGCAGCTTTTCTTGAACACTTTC ATAACAGGTAC
1.2, a partial fragment of a virR gene special for Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria monocytogenes) is adopted as a target sequence S2, and specific primers for amplifying S2 are as follows:
L.mon-F 3 (5’-3’):GTCTTTTAAGTGGAGTAAACCTT
L.mon-B 3 (5’-3’):ACAAGACTTCACCAATCCA
L.mon-FIP(5’-3’):CCTGTGCCAAAGCATTTTTACATTTTTTAGGCAAGTCATCT TGTTCG
L.mon-BIP(5’-3’):TAAGTCTCTTTGCAATTGACCGACTTTTACGTGTACACAGA AAAGCG
1.3 Salmonella typhi (Salmonella spp), a partial segment of the invA gene specific to Salmonella is adopted as a target sequence S3, and specific primers for amplifying S3 are as follows:
S.spp-F 3 (5’-3’):CGGCCCGATTTTCTCTGG
S.spp-B 3 (5’-3’):CGGCAATAGCGTCACCTT
S.spp-FIP(5’-3’):GCGCGGCATCCGCATCAATATGCCCGGTAAACAGATGAGT
S.spp-BIP(5’-3’):GCGAACGGCGAAGCGTACTGTCGCACCGTCAAAGGAAC
the primers are designed in 2018 in 5 months, and are synthesized and purified by Shanghai Biotechnology engineering Co., ltd.
Strains of the above-mentioned bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC6538, listeria monocytogenes ATCC19115, salmonella spp CMCC50071, abbreviated to Staphylococcus aureus, listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella, respectively) were purchased in 5 months in 2017.
2. Extraction template and target sequence singleplex LAMP amplification
(1) Extraction of bacterial DNA
Bacteria of the above different species were subjected to enrichment treatment with LB medium under aseptic conditions, and the cells obtained by enrichment treatment were subjected to genomic DNA extraction and purification, respectively, with reference to the TGuide bacterial genomic DNA extraction kit (OSR-M502).
(2) Preparation of reaction system for performing single LAMP amplification under aseptic operation
Amplification was carried out using 10. Mu.L of a reaction system comprising 10. Mu.L of 10 × Isothermal Amplification Buffer, 1.6. Mu.M each of FIP and BIP as inner primers for amplifying a target sequence of any one of the above bacteria, 0.2. Mu. M, dNTP 1.4.4 mM each of F3 and B3, 0.8M of betaine, 5mM of magnesium sulfate, and 2.0 Bst
DNA polymerase 3.2U, DNA extracted in step (1) (template, 10)
6 copies/. Mu.L) 1. Mu.L and 0.25. Mu.L of EvaGreen (20X) fluorescent dye, the remainder being made up with ultra pure water. Four sample groups of staphylococcus aureus, salmonella typhi, listeria monocytogenes and no template control are arranged, the no template control is NTC, and each sample group is repeated for 6 times.
(3) The reaction is carried out on a high-resolution real-time fluorescent PCR instrument: amplifying at 67 ℃, collecting signals every 1min, collecting signals by using an SBGR Green I channel, reacting for 50 min, and performing high-resolution melting curve analysis in a temperature range from 75 ℃ to 95 ℃, wherein the melting rate is 0.05 ℃/s.
(4) Results of the experiment
And (4) according to the step (3), adding the specific inner primers and the specific outer primers respectively by using the extracted DNA as a template, and carrying out LAMP real-time fluorescence amplification experiments. An amplification curve can be obtained through an experiment (fig. 1A), a melting curve of an amplification product is obtained after HRM analysis is performed on the amplification product (fig. 1B), a characteristic melting peak is further obtained according to the melting curve (fig. 1C), agarose gel electrophoresis is used for verifying the amplification product, and positive samples (marked as "+" in fig. 1D, namely corresponding to amplification of a bacterial DNA template) are generated with LAMP amplification product trapezoidal bands (marked as "marked lane" in fig. 1D is NTC). The results prove that the selected three target sequences can be subjected to effective LAMP amplification, and a characteristic melting curve (comprising a melting curve peak and a normalized melting curve which can be obtained by analyzing the original data of the melting curve) is generated by HRM analysis; meanwhile, melting peaks corresponding to target sequences of staphylococcus aureus and listeria monocytogenes with similar GC proportions are partially overlapped, the difference of melting temperatures is small (1.3 ℃), but the melting temperatures required by traditional melting curve analysis are 3-5 ℃, and the melting temperatures cannot be qualitatively identified generally, so that the three target sequences cannot be detected simultaneously by one-time multiple LAMP amplification.
(II) high resolution melting curve analysis of double loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification
(1) And (3) performing enrichment culture and DNA extraction and performing same single LAMP amplification.
(2) Primer design and synthesis are carried out by same single LAMP amplification.
(3) Preparing a reaction system for double LAMP amplification under aseptic operation: amplification was carried out using 10. Mu.L of a reaction system comprising 10. Mu.L of 10 × Isothermal Amplification Buffer, 0.8. Mu.M each of FIP and BIP as inner primers for simultaneously amplifying target sequences of any two of the above, 0.1. Mu. M, dNTP 1.4.4 mM each of F3 and B3, 0.8M of betaine, 5mM of magnesium sulfate, and 2.0 Bst as Bst
DNA polymerase 3.2U,
DNA template 1. Mu.L (10)
6 copies/. Mu.L) and 0.25. Mu.L of EvaGreen (20X) fluorescent dye, the remainder being made up with ultra pure water. Setting staphylococcus aureus + listeria monocytogenes (template equal ratio mixing), listeria monocytogenes + salmonella (template equal ratio mixing), staphylococcus aureus+ salmonella (equal ratio mixing of templates) and four sample groups without template control, wherein the no template control is NTC, each sample group is repeated for 6 times, and an amplification control which is the same as the amplification primer but only comprises a corresponding single template (staphylococcus aureus template, salmonella template and listeria monocytogenes template) is arranged corresponding to each mixed template group.
(4) In the setting of the amplification detection program (real-time fluorescence amplification reaction, high-resolution melting curve analysis) of each sample group, the amplification reaction temperature is the result optimized according to the following principle:
amplifying two different DNA targets simultaneously, and when the melting peaks of two amplicons (namely amplification products) are observed to have larger Tm difference (> 3 ℃), selecting the reaction temperature at which the two melting peak areas are equal as the optimal amplification temperature, wherein the contents of the two amplicons are close and the amplification efficiency is close; when the Tm value difference is small (less than or equal to 3 ℃), only a single melting peak is generated, the difference can be observed from the profile of the normalized HRM curve, when the normalized high-resolution melting curve of the mixed template sample is positioned in the middle of the control of the two single template samples, the amplification of the two targets is realized, and the amplification efficiency is approximate;
(5) Results of the experiment
As shown in FIG. 2A, when the difference between the melting temperatures of the two LAMP amplification products is large, a characteristic peak is generated at the corresponding temperature in the melting peak diagram, so that the characteristic peak can be used as the identification and detection basis of the amplicon in the dual LAMP amplification. However, when the difference of melting temperatures is small, such as the sample group of staphylococcus aureus and listeria monocytogenes (1.3 ℃), the double amplicon only generates one melting peak, and cannot be identified by a method for observing characteristic peaks. In the normalized high resolution graph (fig. 2B), staphylococcus aureus and listeria monocytogenes with smaller melting temperature differences can be clearly identified easily (the overall positions of the normalization curves are distinguished from each other). The results show that the high-resolution melting analysis can be applied to accurately distinguish LAMP amplification products which cannot be distinguished by adopting the traditional melting curve analysis; and for the identification of LAMP amplification products with similar melting temperatures, the information contained in the whole high-resolution melting curve is obviously better than that only based on the Tm value. The optimized reaction temperature (66.5-67.5 ℃ in this example) for the triple loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification experiment can be determined according to the optimized amplification reaction temperature under different conditions (sample groups).
(III) high resolution melting detection of triple loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification
(1) And (3) performing enrichment culture and DNA extraction and performing same-singleplex LAMP amplification.
(2) Primer design and synthesis are carried out by same single LAMP amplification.
(3) Preparing a reaction system for triple LAMP amplification under aseptic operation: amplification was carried out using a 10. Mu.L reaction system, including 10 ×
Isothermal Amplification Buffer 1. Mu.L, 0.8. Mu.M each of FIP and BIP for amplifying target sequences of Listeria monocytogenes, staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella, 0.1. Mu. M, dNTP 1.4.4 mM each of outer primers F3 and B3, 0.8M of betaine, 5mM of magnesium sulfate, and 2.0 mM of Bst
DNA polymerase 3.2U,
DNA template 1. Mu.L (10)
6 copies/. Mu.L) and 0.25. Mu.L of EvaGreen (20X) fluorescent dye, the remainder being made up with ultra pure water. The method comprises the steps of setting 8 sample groups including staphylococcus aureus, salmonella, listeria monocytogenes, staphylococcus aureus + listeria monocytogenes (template equal ratio mixing), staphylococcus aureus + salmonella (template equal ratio mixing), salmonella + listeria monocytogenes (template equal ratio mixing), staphylococcus aureus + salmonella + listeria monocytogenes (template equal ratio mixing) and no-template control, wherein the no-template control is NTC, and each sample group is repeated for 6 times.
(4) In the amplification detection program (real-time fluorescence amplification reaction and high-resolution melting curve analysis) setting of each sample group, the reaction temperature refers to the optimized result of the double loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification experiment, and is specifically taken as 67 ℃.
(5) Results of the experiment
Seven samples from three different targets were analyzed for high resolution melting curves after LAMP amplification. As shown in fig. 3A, seven normalized high-resolution melting curves respectively correspond to seven different samples, so as to distinguish the different samples (which can be used as a standard HRM model); as shown in fig. 3B, further analysis of HRM raw curves for the samples using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) can obtain seven distinct clusters corresponding to the seven samples, with no overlap between each sample, and clear visual differences (which can be used as a standard HRM model) observed. The normalized high-resolution melting curve is proved to be capable of carrying out effective amplification detection on the DNA of the 3 bacteria and the mixed sample thereof.
Correspondingly, when the Tm value of the peak of the conventional melting curve is used to detect the DNA of the above 3 bacteria and the mixture thereof, the mixed sample containing the DNA of staphylococcus aureus and listeria monocytogenes with a small Tm value difference is difficult to identify accurately (fig. 3C), for example, only one melting peak appears in the sample of staphylococcus aureus + listeria monocytogenes, and only two melting peaks appear in the sample of staphylococcus aureus + listeria monocytogenes + salmonella; again, the superiority and necessity of using the entire melting curve information rather than just referencing the Tm values for identification is illustrated.
(IV) sensitivity and practical application of multiplex LAMP
The detection performance of this method (triplex) was evaluated by blind testing on simulated samples. Analysis shows that the recognition accuracy rate is 100%, which indicates that the multiplex LAMP has good reproducibility.
Performing multiple LAMP amplification on DNA templates with different concentrations. Because multiple LAMP can amplify target sequences with different initial concentrations independently and reach similar platform concentration at the LAMP amplification end point, the LAMP can effectively detect target sequences with 10 copies as low as possible and has higher sensitivity.
When serum (10%) or milk (10%) is added into the detection system (referring to the amplification system), clear cluster analysis can still be carried out (the normalization curve can also be used for identification), which shows the robust applicability in the actual sample detection.
The ratio of bacteria present in the actual sample is often different, and it is necessary to analyze bacteria in different ratios, and as shown in fig. 3D, when bacteria in different ratios are present, the normalized melting curve can be used to analyze samples of bacteria in different ratios.
(V) preparation of multiplex LAMP high-resolution melting curve detection kit
And packaging the 10 × Isothermal Amplification Buffer, dNTP, betaine, magnesium sulfate, bst DNA polymerase and saturated fluorescent dye EvaGreen together to obtain the high-resolution LAMP detection kit.
When the kit is used, multiple LAMP inner and outer primers and templates are added according to the detection purpose of a sample, after amplification (referring to the condition of obtaining a standard HRM model), detection is carried out on an HRM fluorometer, then comparison is carried out according to the standard HRM model attached to the kit, and qualitative identification is carried out on a specific target detection object (such as bacteria) contained in the sample.
In a word, the invention combines the advantages of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and high-resolution melting, and establishes a simple, rapid, closed-tube, high-throughput and low-cost monochromatic multiplex nucleic acid isothermal amplification detection technology. The advantages are that:
(1) Compared with the traditional melting curve analysis, the Tm difference is 3-5 ℃, the Tm difference which can be distinguished by HRM is reduced to 0.2 ℃, so that the design difficulty of multiple LAMP primers is obviously reduced, and a plurality of LAMP amplification products with tiny Tm difference can be simultaneously detected; and the quantity of target DNA which can be simultaneously detected in the same reaction tube is obviously increased, and the quantity of theoretically detected targets (different target sequences) reaches 100 within the melting range of 75-95 ℃.
(2) HRM signal collection only needs single-channel fluorescent DNA binding dye, multi-color fluorescent labeling or multiple single amplification reactions carried out in parallel in space separation are avoided, and standard LAMP primers (without additional modification) are used, so that the detection cost is reduced. By analyzing the melting temperatures of different LAMP amplification products, multiple LAMP detections are carried out, and the purposes of saving reagents, being rapid, simple and convenient and improving sample flux are achieved.
(3) The identification capability of the invention is not influenced by the initial concentration of the DNA template, and the sensitivity can reach 10 copies; the method has excellent detection performance in a complex sample matrix and has high practical application value.
(4) According to the invention, a dye is added before amplification, and an amplicon is melted in a closed tube state after amplification to generate a melting curve. The melting curve is specific for the unique GC content and sequence differences between each amplicon. The melting curve can be used as the unique fingerprint for identifying the specific target by analyzing through statistical means such as normalization or principal component analysis.
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