WO2006108205A2 - Verfahren zur detektion von nukleinsäurefragmenten - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for the internal control of nucleic acid amplifications.
- PCR polymerase chain reaction
- Internal controls are used to demonstrate any PCR inhibition, serve to demonstrate the successful course of amplification, and give false negative results, e.g. due to inhibitors.
- inhibitors can be caused by poor purification of the sample, for example residual ethanol, protein residual particles, on the other hand by poor handling, e.g. Glove powder or tree pollen, enter the reaction vessel.
- both the amplification product and the internal control are detected at at least two different wavelengths.
- a TaqMan probe 5 '-FAM-N x -TAMRA-3' and a control probe 5'-TET-N x -TAMRA-3 ' are marked for genotyping.
- a passive dye such as the dye ROX, is often used to compute volume fluctuations. It can be seen that many measurement wavelengths of a real-time cycler are used very quickly.
- there are many real-time cyclers on the market that only measure at one detection wavelength, usually at FAM / SybrGreen I (530 nm).
- a melting curve of the reaction mixture is recorded (see eg Siraj AK, Clinical Cancer Research 8: 3832-3840 (2002)).
- the analysis of the melting curve after the PCR is actually no real-time analysis, but is a post-PCR method, such as an agarose gel or hybridization analysis, since it comes to the superposition of the individual product formations during the amplification.
- a variety of qualitative and quantitative PCR analyzers are available on the market, the most important of which are the ABI Prism 7000 series, the Roche Light Cycler, the BioRad iCycler and the Corbett Rotor genes.
- the instruments can measure the fluorescence intensity only at one wavelength, which is usually the FAM / Sybr Green channel (530nm), or quantify in six channels. These devices thus allow the measurement of several labeled with different fluorescent dyes nucleic acids (eg amplification products of samples to be analyzed and internal controls).
- J Clin Microbiol 37 (3) (1999): 724-8) relates to a method for the detection of JC polyomar virus (JCV), in which a non-competitive or a competitive internal control can be used.
- the non-competitive internal control which is a ⁇ -lactamase construct from E. coli, is co-amplified for the detection reaction of JCV in a sample.
- the amplification product of the internal control is not detected during the amplification itself, recording an amplification curve but in an end point detection.
- the present invention relates to a method for the detection and / or quantitative determination of at least one nucleic acid fragment of a nucleic acid amplification comprising the steps: a) providing a sample optionally comprising at least a first nucleic acid, b) contacting the sample with a specific amount of a first for the c) adding a certain amount of at least one second nucleic acid as internal control and at least one second primer pair to the sample specific for the second nucleic acid, d) amplifying the mixture from c) over a number of nucleic acid amplification cycles, wherein at least an amplified nucleic acid fragment of the at least one first and / or the at least one second nucleic acid is labeled with one or more fluorescent dyes, e) recording an amplification curve by measuring the fluorescence intensities of the N nucleic acid amplification cycles at one wavelength and correlating the fluorescence intensities against the number of nucleic acid amplification cycles; f) determining a threshold cycle and
- the method according to the invention can be used for any type of sample, if in this sample a nucleic acid is present, which can be amplified with the aid of a specific primer pair.
- unknown samples can also be analyzed to determine if a particular nucleic acid is present in that sample.
- the method according to the invention is suitable not only for the detection of a nucleic acid fragment but also for the quantitative determination of this fragment, for example on the basis of the threshold value cycle.
- the sample which optionally comprises a first nucleic acid (in the case of unknown samples, the absence of such a nucleic acid is not excluded)
- at least one second nucleic acid and primers specific for this second nucleic acid are added during the process.
- This second nucleic acid serves as an internal control to determine if the nucleic acid amplification works in and of itself under the given reaction conditions, thus allowing false negative results to be excluded if amplification of a fragment of the internal control can be detected.
- the fragments are labeled in the course of the amplification with a fluorophore. The measured fluo- _
- Resence ideally increases to the same extent as the amount of amplification product in the reaction mixture.
- the fluorescence values thus obtained can be correlated against the number of amplification cycles, resulting in an amplification curve.
- the threshold cycle, the fluorescence maximum value and the efficiency of the nucleic acid amplification can be determined by methods known to the person skilled in the art. These parameters can be used to characterize the amplification and to determine the amount of the first nucleic acid present in the sample.
- the amplification of the first nucleic acid can be determined, provided that both amplification reactions under the same conditions.
- the threshold value of the amplification of the first and the second nucleic acid at least 10%, preferably at least 20%, in particular at least 30%, above or below the threshold value of the internal control amplification and / or if the fluorescence maximum value of the amplification of the first and the second nucleic acid at least 10%, preferably at least 20%, in particular at least 30%, above the fluorescence maximum value of the amplification of the internal control and / or if the efficiency of the amplification of the first and the second nucleic acid is at least 0.1 points, preferably at least 0.2 points, in particular At least 0.3 points above the efficiency of the internal control amplification, then at least one second nucleic acid fragment was amplified during the reaction.
- the amount of internal control and corresponding primers is typically selected such that the threshold, the fluorescence peak, and / or the internal control amplification efficiency differ significantly from the values of first nucleic acid amplification.
- the primer concentration of a PCR which is able to amplify very small copy numbers of target sequences is diluted to half and one-quarter of the optimal concentration and the threshold value is determined in each case.
- the optimum primer concentration can be considered as the amount where the amplification of less than 5 copies is possible, and the threshold cycle at that copy number is at least 5 cycles prior to the appearance of primer dimers or other by-products. The reduction of the primer concentration leads to dramatic efficiency reduction. Thereafter, the concentration of the second nucleic acid is reduced to reach the desired threshold.
- the amplification curve of an internal control and thus also the parameters derived therefrom change by the amplification of another nucleic acid in such a way that even a slight deviation thereof can be concluded from the amplification of a further nucleic acid fragment.
- the amplification curve of the internal control can be determined by the sole amplification of the same.
- provision of a sample refers to all methods which are known to the person skilled in the art, to isolate and, if appropriate, to prepare samples which comprise or potentially comprise a nucleic acid or a nucleic acid fragment to be determined. Extraction from a sample, accumulation of microorganisms to be determined from a sample, etc.
- the samples can be used directly in a method according to the invention (eg Sambrook, J., and Russell, DW, (2001) Molecular Cloning, ColD Spring Harbor, New York).
- a “specific primer pair” for a nucleic acid is a primer pair (comprising at least one forward primer and at least one reverse primer) which is capable of "specific” binding to said nucleic acid molecule under nucleic acid amplification conditions (eg PCR conditions) and thus defining the size of the nucleic acid fragment to be amplified.
- nucleic acid amplification conditions eg PCR conditions
- Specific binding may be achieved when the primers of the primer pair with the nucleic acid have an identity (ie, match the nucleic acid sequence of the forward primer and the reverse complement nucleic acid sequence of the reverse primer with the nucleic acid to be amplified upon superposition of the nucleic acid with the primers in which individual nucleotides of the primers (eg 20%) can be replaced by universal bases, such as eg inosine) of at least 70%, preferably of at least 80%, in particular of at least 90%.
- identity ie, match the nucleic acid sequence of the forward primer and the reverse complement nucleic acid sequence of the reverse primer with the nucleic acid to be amplified upon superposition of the nucleic acid with the primers in which individual nucleotides of the primers (eg 20%) can be replaced by universal bases, such as eg inosine) of at least 70%, preferably of at least 80%, in particular of at least 90%.
- the "fluorescence maximum value” is the highest fluorescence value above the threshold value, which is measured in the course of a nucleic acid amplification at one wavelength Since a plateau generally forms in the course of an amplification reaction after the exponential phase, an average value of the fluorescence values can also be determined
- the value set, which is output by a device independently of the type of excitation in a channel is defined by “monochrome” or "at one wavelength”.
- Roche's Light Cycler similar to the Idaho cycler
- measure monochrome is thus meant the evaluation of the data of a single channel (i.e., a single wavelength), for example FAM, taking into account possible correction tables which improve the measurement in the respective channel.
- the "threshold cycle” (C ⁇ , "threshold cycle”) expresses the number of cycles at which, for the first time, a significant increase in fluorescence is detected over background noise and can be used to quantitate nucleic acid amplification.
- C ⁇ The “threshold cycle” expresses the number of cycles at which, for the first time, a significant increase in fluorescence is detected over background noise and can be used to quantitate nucleic acid amplification.
- the quantification of the DNA amount is not based on absolute amounts of nucleic acid amplification product, but on the kinetics of the amplification reaction.
- the C ⁇ value is taken as the amplification is exponential at this point in time and there are no limiting factors in this phase of the amplification reaction, such as primer or nucleotide deficiency, decreasing polymerase enzyme activity or inhibition of the reaction by the reaction Occurrence of certain products, gives.
- known template amounts can be amplified in each amplification run, so that one can compare which template amount is obtained at which C ⁇ value. From this, a standard amplification curve can be created, on the basis of which - - From a certain C ⁇ value can be concluded on a Nukleinkladrzent- tion in the sample.
- the purine-pyrimidine ratio of the individual bases of the primers, the degree of homology or identity of the primers to the target sequence, the annealing temperature, the length of the primers and the nucleic acid fragment to be amplified are important determinants of functionality a nucleic acid amplification.
- E nucleic acid amplification Efficiency
- the efficiency as well as the threshold cycle of a nucleic acid amplification are by changing certain parameters, such as primer concentration, DNA amount, primer length, change of one or more bases at the 3 'end of a primer (without losing the specificity of the primer), length of the ampli - fiz ists., two-stage PCR with primer for isothermal PCR, controllable (see, eg, Kubista M et al (2001) Genomics and Proteomics Technologies.) Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4264, pp. 53- - - -
- labeling is the process in which a nucleic acid prepared, for example, by a nucleic acid amplification, directly (eg with an intercalating dye such as Sybr Green) or indirectly (eg via a nucleic acid probe containing a fluorescent dye labeled) is provided with a dye, preferably a fluorescent dye.
- label refers to the process of binding a dye, preferably a fluorescent dye, to a probe, in particular to a nucleic acid probe which binds specifically to a further nucleic acid in order to finally "indirectly” label it.
- the dye provided with the probe is called a "label”. Therefore, according to the present invention, “labeling” refers to all those processes in which an (amplified) nucleic acid is provided with a dye or with a (specific) "label”.
- a further aspect of the present invention relates to a method for detecting an inhibition of a nucleic acid amplification of at least one nucleic acid fragment comprising the steps a) to g) as cited above, wherein the inhibition of the nucleic acid amplification is detected when the fluorescence maximum value of the amplification of the mixture from c) at least 10% below the maximum fluorescence value of an amplification of the second nucleic acid fragment with the primer pair specific for the second nucleic acid and / or the efficiency of amplification of the mixture of c) at least 0.1 points below the efficiency of amplification of the second nucleic acid fragment with that for the second nucleic acid specific primer pair.
- the amplification curve from step e) can essentially (with respect to efficiency, threshold cycle and / or fluorescence maximum value) coincide with the amplification curve of the second nucleic acid, whereby no amplification of the nucleic acid fragment of the first nucleic acid is detected, which could indicate that no first sample is present in the sample Nucleic acid and in the sample and in the reaction mixture c) no inhibitors - -
- the anaplication curve from step e) can essentially correspond to the amplification curve of the first nucleic acid, which likewise means that no inhibitors can be present in the reaction vessel. If it is not possible to take up an amplification curve, the reaction is essentially inhibited to 100%, but using the amplification curve (eg reduced maximum fluorescence value, shifted threshold cycle, reduced efficiency in comparison to a non-inhibited amplification curve), for example, a 50% Inhibition can be detected.
- the amplification curve eg reduced maximum fluorescence value, shifted threshold cycle, reduced efficiency in comparison to a non-inhibited amplification curve
- At least one melting temperature of the at least one nucleic acid fragment is determined by taking a melting curve after nucleic acid amplification.
- the reaction mixture may be subjected to a melting curve analysis after amplification.
- the fluorescent label is reversible by increasing the temperature above the melting point of the double-stranded DNA fragments (eg, using DNA intercalating substances)
- the change in fluorescence versus temperature is correlated.
- the amplified nucleic acid fragments by comparison with known melting curves (that of the amplified nucleic acid fragment of the first nucleic acid with that amplified nucleic acid fragment of the second nucleic acid) and, for example, determine whether both reactions have occurred around primer dimers or other non-specific products.
- the amplified nucleic acid fragments have preferably a melting temperature which is substantially at least 1 ° C, preferably at least 2 0 C more preferably at least 4 0 C, in particular at least 6 ° C, differ.
- the nucleic acid is preferably DNA and / or RNA, in particular mRNA. According to the invention, all known types of nucleic acids can be used.
- the nucleic acid amplification technique is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, selected from the group consisting of real-time PCR, nested PCR, inverse _
- PCR polymerase chain reaction
- PCR reverse transcriptase PCR
- RT-PCR reverse transcriptase PCR
- the process of the invention can be used in a variety of polymerase chain reaction techniques. However, it is a prerequisite that fluorescence can be measured essentially at each cycle and that an amplification curve can be derived therefrom.
- real-time polymerase chain reaction real time PCR
- Real-time PCR also combines DNA amplification with the detection of products in a reaction vessel. Such an amplification of a nucleic acid drastically reduces the risk of contamination because the reaction vessel no longer has to be opened after the chain reaction.
- the PCR is carried out as asymmetric PCR.
- one of the primers used in the PCR is added in excess. Under these reaction conditions, there is a selective amplification of a strand. If the forward primer is in excess, the strand rather than the opposite strand is amplified.
- This approach is particularly advantageous if the PCR product after amplification is to be used for hybridizations (e.g., hybridization to a solid phase). The presence of single strands eliminates the need for denaturing the PCR product prior to hybridization.
- the real-time PCR is preferably selected from the group consisting of TaqMan PCR, Sybr Green PCR, molecular Beakon PCR, Light Up PCR, HybProbe PCR and combinations thereof.
- various real-time PCR techniques can be used, with real-time PCR with TaqMan, LightUp, HybProbe and molecular beacon probes and Sybr Green being preferred.
- the combination of the various PCR techniques for example Sybr Green labeling with TaqMan labeling makes it possible to increase the number of amplified nucleic acid fragments to be detected or quantified in a sample.
- the at least one amplified nucleic acid fragment is mixed with a nucleic acid-intercalating sub- punch, eg Sybr Green 1 or ethidium bromide, with at least one dye-labeled nucleic acid probe, eg with a TaqMan probe or with a molecular beacon ("molecular beacon").
- a nucleic acid-intercalating sub- punch eg Sybr Green 1 or ethidium bromide
- at least one dye-labeled nucleic acid probe eg with a TaqMan probe or with a molecular beacon ("molecular beacon").
- the detection methods in nucleic acid amplification techniques are either specific, ie primer dimers or unspecific products are not detected, or nonspecific, any double-stranded DNA is detected (selective detection).
- selective detection For the selective detection of nucleic acids, in particular of double-stranded DNA, predominantly interfering dyes are used in molecular biology which are able to be incorporated into the nucleic acids.
- Such dyes are, for example, ethidium bromide and the less toxic Sybr Green (see, for example, Wittwer CT et al., (1997) Biotechniques 22: 176-81; Ponchel F et al. (2003) BMC Biotechnology 3:18) or else thiazole orange (TO ), Oxazole yellow (YO).
- Sybr Green ethidium bromide and the less toxic Sybr Green
- TO thiazole orange
- Oxazole yellow YO
- These dyes, especially Sybr Green are used not only for nucleic acid staining in gels, such as agarose gels, but also in the context of nucleic acid amplification techniques, such as real-time PCR.
- the emission of fluorescent light when these dyes are intercalated in double-stranded DNA, allows real-time PCR to detect the formation of amplification products directly after their generation by means of a fluorometer.
- the intensity of the fluorescence signal is proportional to the amount of double-stranded DNA in the sample. Since this method of detecting DNA is selective and non-specific (ie, DNA can not be specifically detected due to its nucleic acid sequence), it is possible to further characterize the product after the end of the PCR amplification by means of melting curves, and non-specific amplification products, which are described in US Pat usually having a melting point other than the main product.
- intercalating dyes are very well suited to follow the amplification of nucleic acid fragments directly, although it should be noted that the melting points can vary by +/- I 0 C depending on the analysis run.
- Intercalating dyes in particular Sybr Green 1, are used for single-plex reactions, but when coupled with a melting point analysis, it can also be used in multi- plex reactions can be used (see eg Siraj AK, Clinical Cancer Research 8: 3832-3840 (2002)).
- sequence-specific probes are used. These can be on the one hand TaqMan probes, light-up probes, hybridization probes or molecular beakons.
- TaqMan probes (see eg Heid CA et al. (1996) Genome Res. 6: 986-94), for example, are characterized in that the probe which specifically binds to the amplification product is reacted with a reporter dye (fluorophore) and a quencher on the probe 5'- and 3 'end is provided.
- a reporter dye fluorophore
- the detection of amplification products by means of hybridization probes is also based on the FRET ("fluorescence resonance energy transfer") principle.
- a first probe is labeled with a donor fluorochrome (e.g., fluorescein) at the 3 'end and a second probe with an acceptor dye (e.g., Cy5, LC Red 640) at the 5' end.
- Both probes are selected to hybridize to the amplicon such that the modified ends of the probes on the amplicon are separated by a single base on the same DNA strand.
- the energy delivered by the donor excites the acceptor dye of the second probe, the latter eventually emitting fluorescence at a longer wavelength.
- the ratio between donor fluorescence and acceptor fluorescence increases in the course of a nucleic acid amplification and is proportional to the amplified amount of DNA.
- molecular beacons can be used for the specific detection of amplification products (see, for example, Abravaya K et al. (2003) Clin Chem Lab Med. 41: 468-74).
- Molecular beacons are hybridization probes that have a stem and a loop and are modified with a fluorescent dye at one end and a quencher at the other end.
- the loop portion of the probe is complementary to the template and the two end portions are complementary to one another, forming a hairpin-like structure. If the probe is not _
- the fluorophore and quencher When hybridized to the template, the fluorophore and quencher are in the immediate vicinity, whereby the fluorescence is essentially completely suppressed. Once the probe hybridizes to the template under optimized conditions, the fluorescence-suppressing effect of the quencher is removed. Due to the high thermostability of the formed hairpin structure, molecular beakons have high hybridization specificity, thereby further allowing for differences in nucleotide sequence to one nucleotide (suitability for mutation analysis and detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms ("single nucleotide polymorphism ", SNP)).
- HybProbe probes are also useful in the practice of the present invention (See, for example, Härder TC et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. (2001) 39: 4413-4419). Furthermore, light-up probes are also suitable in the method according to the invention, as described for example in Kubista M et al. (Genomics and Proteomics Technologies, Proceedings of SPIE (2001), Vol. 4264, pp. 53-58), Svanvik N et al. (Anal Biochem (2000) 287: 179-182) and Isacsson J et al. (Mol Cell Probes (2000) 14: 321-328).
- the polymerase chain reaction technique is a 2-stage polymerase chain reaction technique.
- a 2-stage polymerase chain reaction technique is characterized by the annealing and elongation temperatures being identical. Therefore, such PCR techniques require only two temperature levels for the amplification of a nucleic refragments to catalyze (a denaturation temperature, for example 94 0 C and an annealing / elongation temperature).
- a denaturation temperature for example 94 0 C and an annealing / elongation temperature.
- a prerequisite for carrying out a 2-stage PCR is that the polymerase used has sufficient amplification efficiency at the annealing temperature.
- sequence-specific probes are, for example, TaqMan probes which are preferably 6-carboxyfluorescein, tetrachloro- ⁇ -carboxy-fluorescein, 2,7-dimethoxy-4,5-dichloro-6-carboxyfluorescein or hexachloro-6-carboxy- Fluorescein as a dye and 6-carboxy-tetramethyl-rhodamine may have as a quencher.
- the amplification of the second nucleic acid refragments have a lower efficiency than the amplification of the first nucleic acid fragment.
- the efficiency of nucleic acid amplification has a direct impact on the threshold cycle: the lower the efficiency, the larger the threshold cycle.
- the amplification of the second nucleic acid has a lower efficiency.
- the amplification of the second nucleic acid fragment preferably has an efficiency of not more than 1.8, preferably not more than 1.4, more preferably not more than 1.3, in particular not more than 1.1.
- the amplification of the second nucleic acid fragment preferably has a threshold cycle of at least 30, particularly preferably of at least 40, in particular of at least 50.
- the curves differ at least in one feature.
- These features include above all the threshold cycle mentioned above, the maximum fluorescence value and the efficiency.
- the distinction of the curves based on the threshold value cycle has proven particularly suitable.
- the threshold cycle is dependent on several factors, such as primer concentration (see, for example, Kubista M et al., (2001) Genomics and Proteomics Technologies, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4264, pp. 53-58), with a low primer concentration to one higher threshold cycle leads than a high concentration.
- nucleic acid amplification is usually optimized for a threshold cycle of about 25 to 45, a higher threshold cycle of, for example, 45 would be particularly well suited to determining if the amplification of the first nucleic acid amplification functioned or did not work. If, for example, the amplification curve of a sample had a threshold cycle which corresponds to that of the amplification of the second nucleic acid, this indicates that possibly no first nucleic acid was present in the sample. Furthermore, the threshold cycle can also be used to determine the concentration of the first nucleic acid in the sample. - -
- the amount of the first pair of primers in the mixture c) is 0.05 to 2 ⁇ M, preferably 0.075 to 1.5 ⁇ M, in particular 0.1 to 1 ⁇ M.
- the amount of the second primer pair is, according to a preferred embodiment, less than 90%, preferably less than 70%, more preferably less than 50%, in particular less than 30%, 20%, 15%, 10% or 7.5% of the amount of the first Primer pair.
- the amount of primer used in a nucleic acid amplification affects the efficiency of an amplification reaction, reducing the efficiency of the reaction in both too low and too high amounts of primer.
- a standard series can be amplified with different concentrations of primers, wherein for each primer concentration the efficiency of the nucleic acid amplification is e.g. determined by an amplification curve. It has been found that, above all, a smaller amount of the primer pair, which is specific for the second nucleic acid (as an internal control), leads to a surprisingly good result compared to the primer pair specific for the first nucleic acid.
- the amount of second nucleic acid used can be very small.
- Vorzusgweise is the amount of at least one second nucleic acid between 10 and 10 6 molecules, preferably between 100 and 100,000 molecules, in particular between 1000 and 10,000 molecules. Because of the small amount of template, amplification takes more cycles to reach the threshold of fluorescence and enter the exponential phase of amplification.
- any nucleic acid can be used as an internal control, provided that correspondingly specific primers for the amplification of a fragment thereof are used.
- - - are or can be determined.
- the forward primer has the nucleic acid sequence 5'-ACCAAGAAATAAAAATGCGCTTCCCAAf-T-S '.
- the reverse primer has the nucleic acid sequence 5'-CAGCTGCTGTAATCACCCAGTCGATAAATG-3 '.
- any sample comprising a nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of viruses, animal and plant organisms, bacteria, preferably mycobacteria, in particular Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and combinations thereof can be investigated.
- a nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of viruses, animal and plant organisms, bacteria, preferably mycobacteria, in particular Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and combinations thereof can be investigated.
- the sample comprises at least a first nucleic acid from Mycobacterium paratuberculosis which is amplified with a forward primer having the nucleic acid sequence 5'-CCGC-TAATTGAGAGATGCGATTGG-3 'and with a reverse primer having the nucleic acid sequence 5'-GTGCCACAACCACCTCCGTAACCG-3'.
- the mixture subjected to nucleic acid amplification from step c) or the optionally amplified nucleic acid fragments from step d) is detected by a hybridization method.
- an amplified nucleic acid fragment according to the invention can also be provided by hybridization methods.
- an amplified fragment is synthesized via the sequence-specific addition of complementary, labeled (for example nonradioactive (see, for example, Kessler C. (ed.) Nonradioactive Labeling and Detection of Biomolecules, Springer Verlag Heidelberg (1992) or radioactive) nucleic acid probes respectively.
- complementary, labeled for example nonradioactive (see, for example, Kessler C. (ed.) Nonradioactive Labeling and Detection of Biomolecules, Springer Verlag Heidelberg (1992) or radioactive
- the nucleic acids to be analyzed are preferably immobilized on a solid support and brought into contact under stringent conditions with the corresponding probes.
- FIG. 1 shows a plot of a real-time PCR analysis of M. paratuberculosis (positive control, AOI) and several internal controls (Chlamydia DNA: BOI, COI, DOI, EOI, FOI, GOI), the fluorescence values (FAM -490) were correlated against the number of PCR cycles.
- Fig. 2 shows a melting curve for determining whether the amplified product corresponds to the product to be amplified, wherein the fluorescence values (FAM-490) were plotted against the temperature.
- ferromagnetic beads (ChemiCell, SIMAG-MP / TCL) suspension are deposited on the magnet (MagnetOn 4T, Aureon Biosystems, # M010104), resuspended in ImI MES, the supernatant removed from the magnet and incubated with 25mg carbodiimide (Sigma, # E7750 ) in 1 ml of MES buffer for 15 minutes on rotamix (RMl at 15 rpm). The beads are washed with ImI MOPS buffer and spiked for 2 hours at RMI with 900 ⁇ l of antibody in MOPS buffer (QED Bioscience, 18101-18104).
- StabilZyme AP Sudmodics, SAOl-100
- the beads are washed 2x with ImI TPBS and Ix with 1 ml of StabilZyme.
- the beads are taken up in 20 ml of StabilZyme (final concentration of 10 mg beads / ml) and stored in the refrigerator.
- sperm DNA was added to the samples.
- the subsequent melting curve gave a melting temperature - - of 79 0 C for the product of Internal Control and 8 ⁇ ° C for the product of M. paratuberculosis PCR.
- 2 ml of raw milk is mixed with 20 ⁇ l of the bead suspension and incubated for 120 minutes while rotating the tubes. Thereafter, the beads are deposited on the magnet and washed 4 times with CT wash solution by respective deposition on the magnet.
- the bead-bacterium complex is distilled in 20 ⁇ l. Water resuspended, 20 min. heated to 95 ° C, then the beads deposited on the magnet and transfer the supernatant into a fresh tube.
- Hybridization test A: Preparation of the solid phase Streptavidin from Boehringer Mannheim is diluted to a concentration of 2 ⁇ g / ml in PBS and the wells of white MoxiSorp microplates (Nunc, species N ° 437-591) are incubated at 4 ° C. overnight coated with 100 ⁇ L. The plate is tapped, washed with TPBS and bound with lOO ⁇ L / well of a solution of 3 pmol / 100 ⁇ L biotinylated capture oligonucleotide (Biotin-TCATTGTCCAGATCA for M. paratuberculosis and biotin-AGCATACTTTGATGCAT for internal control) in TPBS, washed, dried and sealed ,
- TPBS and 5 ⁇ l of amplicon are incubated for 15 minutes at room temperature and rotated at 500 rpm, washed 4 times with TPBS, incubated for 15 minutes with 50 ⁇ l anti-FAM-HRP at 500 rpm, washed 4 times with TPBS, 15 min with KPL TMB in the dark incubated at room temperature and stopped with 50 ⁇ L 1 NH 2 SO 4 .
- a highly sensitive and highly specific PCR for the detection of M. paratuberculosis DNA has been developed and shown that even after 80 cycles no primer dimers occur. The specificity was further increased with these primers in a touch-down PCR.
- an internal control was included, which is reduced in efficiency by low concentration of the primer and thus reached only at high number of cycles, the threshold and the product itself the efficiency and optionally the signal level on negative samples indicates that the amplification was not inhibited.
- the concentration of the dye can be varied or increased during measurements with SybrGreen I.
- This concept of efficiency modification by different primer concentrations and monochrome detection is also particularly well suited for gene analysis, because, for example, point mutations such as factor V Leiden in the heterozygous case wild type and mutation type are present in the same amount on the genome, thus the target concentration is the same, and can be distinguished by the efficiency.
- more than two amplicons can also be determined if the primer concentrations are adjusted properly.
- the threshold cycle shifts by about 3 cycles when the primer is diluted to one-half and by about 10 cycles when diluted to one-quarter.
- the concentration of Sybr Green I should be adapted to this, because as far as enough dye is available, the products can also be distinguished by the signal height.
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