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ArticleNucleic acids research2007

Lateral flow microarrays: a novel platform for rapid nucleic acid detection based on miniaturized lateral flow chromatography.

Darren J Carter, R Bruce Cary

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Current and emerging trends in point-of-care urinalysis tests.Expert review of molecular diagnostics · 2020
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  18. Simultaneous detection of nucleic acid and protein using gold nanoparticles and lateral flow device.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2014
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  19. Miniaturized technology for protein and nucleic acid point-of-care testing.Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Darren J CarterBiosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
R Bruce Cary
Los Alamos National Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Widely used nucleic acid assays are poorly suited for field deployment where access to laboratory instrumentation is limited or unavailable. The need for field deployable nucleic acid detection demands inexpensive, facile systems without sacrificing information capacity or sensitivity. Here we describe a novel microarray platform capable of rapid, sensitive nucleic acid detection without specialized instrumentation. The approach is based on a miniaturized lateral flow device that makes use of hybridization-mediated target capture. The miniaturization of lateral flow nucleic acid detection provides multiple advantages over traditional lateral flow devices. Ten-microliter sample volumes reduce reagent consumption and yield analyte detection times, excluding sample preparation and amplification, of <120 s while providing sub-femtomole sensitivity. Moreover, the use of microarray technology increases the potential information capacity of lateral flow. Coupled with a hybridization-based detection scheme, the lateral flow microarray (LFM) enables sequence-specific detection, opening the door to highly multiplexed implementations for broad-range assays well suited for point-of-care and other field applications. The LFM system is demonstrated using an isothermal amplification strategy for detection of Bacillus anthracis, the etiologic agent of anthrax. RNA from as few as two B. anthracis cells was detected without thermocycling hardware or fluorescence detection systems.

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AllelesBacillus anthracisBacterial ProteinsChromatographyHeLa CellsHumansKineticsMiniaturizationOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRNA, BacterialTrans-ActivatorsBacterial ProteinsPlcR protein, BacillusRNA, BacterialTrans-Activators

Identifiers

PMID17478499
PMCPMC1904290
OpenAlexW2166083322

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