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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

Kinetics of elementary steps in loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) show that strand invasion during initiation is rate-limiting.

Tyler L Dangerfield, Inyup Paik, Sanchita Bhadra, Kenneth A Johnson, Andrew D Ellington

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. 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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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tyler L DangerfieldDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Inyup PaikDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5938-6380
Sanchita BhadraDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4956-2405
Kenneth A JohnsonDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Andrew D EllingtonDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
The University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Kinetic and structural basis for SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase specificity and inhibitionR01AI163336 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI JOHNSON, KENNETH ALLEN · 2021 to 2025
$2.9M
Dynamics of Hepatis C viral RNA-dependent RNA replicationR01AI110577 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI JOHNSON, KENNETH ALLEN · 2015 to 2018
$1.8M
Directed evolution of polymerases that can read and write extremely long sequencesR01EB027202 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI ELLINGTON, ANDREW D · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110577NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI163336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) has proven to be easier to implement than PCR for point-of-care diagnostic tests. However, the underlying mechanism of LAMP is complicated and the kinetics of the major steps in LAMP have not been fully elucidated, which prevents rational improvements in assay development. Here we present our work to characterize the kinetics of the elementary steps in LAMP and show that: (i) strand invasion / initiation is the rate-limiting step in the LAMP reaction; (ii) the loop primer plays an important role in accelerating the rate of initiation and does not function solely during the exponential amplification phase and (iii) strand displacement synthesis by Bst-LF polymerase is relatively fast (125 nt/s) and processive on both linear and hairpin templates, although with some interruptions on high GC content templates. Building on these data, we were able to develop a kinetic model that relates the individual kinetic experiments to the bulk LAMP reaction. The assays developed here provide important insights into the mechanism of LAMP, and the overall model should be crucial in engineering more sensitive and faster LAMP reactions. The kinetic methods we employ should likely prove useful with other isothermal DNA amplification methods.

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Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and Specificity

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PMID36583345
PMCPMC9841402
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