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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2023

Electrocatalytic Palladium Nanoclusters as Versatile Indicators of Bioassays: Rapid Electroanalytical Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification.

Alejandro Rodríguez-Penedo, Pablo Rioboó-Legaspi, Andrea González-López, Ana Lores-Padín, Rosario Pereiro, María Del Mar García-Suárez, María Dolores Cima-Cabal, Estefanía Costa-Rama, Beatriz Fernández, M Teresa Fernández-Abedul

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 authors.

Alejandro Rodríguez-PenedoDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
Pablo Rioboó-LegaspiDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
Andrea González-LópezDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
Ana Lores-PadínDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
Rosario PereiroDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
María Del Mar García-SuárezSchool of Engineering and Technology, International University of La Rioja, Logroño, 26006, Spain.
María Dolores Cima-CabalSchool of Engineering and Technology, International University of La Rioja, Logroño, 26006, Spain.
Estefanía Costa-RamaDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
Beatriz FernándezDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.
M Teresa Fernández-AbedulDeparment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3782-5025

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is considered the gold standard for pathogen detection. However, improvement is still required, especially regarding the possibilities of decentralization. Apart from other reasons, infectious diseases demand on-site analysis to avoid pathogen spreading and increase treatment efficacy. In this paper, the detection of SARS-CoV-2 is carried out by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification, which has the advantage of requiring simple equipment, easily adaptable to decentralized analysis. It is proposed, for the first time, the use of palladium nanoclusters (PdNCs) as indicators of the amplification reaction at end point. The pH of the medium decreases during the reaction and, in turn, a variation in the catalytic activity of PdNCs on the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) can be electrochemically observed. For the detection, flexible and small-size screen-printed electrodes can be premodified with PdNCs, which together with the use of a simple and small electrochemical equipment would greatly facilitates their integration in field-deployable devices. This would allow a faster detection of SARS-CoV-2 as well as of other future microbial threats after an easy adaptation.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Biological AssayClinical Laboratory TechniquesCOVID-19 TestingHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPalladiumReverse TranscriptionSensitivity and SpecificityPalladiumelectrocatalysiselectrochemical detectionisothermal nucleic acid amplificationpalladium nanoclusters (PdNCs)RT-LAMPSARS-CoV-2screen-printed electrodes

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PMID36715339
PMCPMC11469307

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