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ArticleNanoscale research letters2017

An Ultrasensitive Gold Nanoparticle-based Lateral Flow Test for the Detection of Active Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A.

Jing Liu, Shan Gao, Lin Kang, Bin Ji, Wenwen Xin, Jingjing Kang, Ping Li, Jie Gao, Hanbin Wang, Jinglin Wang and 1 more

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Article in Nanoscale research letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jing LiuState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Shan GaoState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Lin KangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Bin JiState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Wenwen XinState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Jingjing KangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Ping LiState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Jie GaoState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Hanbin WangThe 307th Hospital of Military Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China.
Jinglin WangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China. wjlwjl0801@sina.com.
Hao YangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People's Republic of China. tohaoyang@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-8323
Institute of Microbiology · CN307th Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army · CNInstitute of Microbiology · BY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Botulism is a severe and potentially lethal paralytic disease caused by several botulinum neurotoxin-producing Clostridia spp. In China, the majority of the cases caused by botulism were from less-developed rural areas. Here, we designed specific substrate peptides and reconfigured gold nanoparticle-based lateral flow test strip (LFTS) to develop an endopeptidase-based lateral flow assay for the diagnosis of botulism. We performed this lateral flow assay on botulinum neurotoxin-spiked human serum samples. The as-prepared LFTS had excellent performance in the detection of botulinum neurotoxin using only 1 μL of simulated serum, and its sensitivity and specificity were comparable to that of mouse lethality assay. Moreover, the assay takes only half a day and does not require highly trained laboratory staff, specialized facility, or equipment. Finally, our LFTS can be potentially extended to other serotypes of BoNTs by designing specific substrate peptides against the different types of BoNTs. Overall, we demonstrate a strategy by which LFTS and endopeptidase activity assays can be integrated to achieve facile and economic diagnosis of botulism in resource-limited settings.

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Botulinum toxinBotulismEndopeptidase activity assayLateral flow assayMouse lethality assay

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PMID28359137
PMCPMC5371539
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