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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Antibody-Initiated Loop-Mediated Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification (ai-LAMP) as a New Biosensor for Antigen Detection.

Navaporn Sritong, Ana L Claure Dips, Eric Tan, Karin F K Ejendal, Tamara L Kinzer-Ursem, Jacqueline C Linnes

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6 authors.

Navaporn SritongWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2133-3256
Ana L Claure DipsWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-4192-9549
Eric TanWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Karin F K EjendalWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2099-0550
Tamara L Kinzer-UrsemWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7343-115X
Jacqueline C LinnesWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Nation, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4962-0908

Funding

Pont-of-use Acute HIV Infection Diagnostic for Substance Using PopulationsDP2DA051910 · NIDA · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI LINNES, JACQUELINE · 2020 to 2023
$2.6M
NIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA051910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly sensitive protein detection is critical in research and healthcare diagnostics but remains limited to resource intensive environments. In contrast, lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA)-based diagnostics are popular point-of-care tests due to their simplicity and user-friendly format but lack sensitivity for detecting the low concentrations of proteins that are present early in infections and among asymptomatic individuals. To overcome these limitations, we developed a novel biosensor platform utilizing antibody-initiated loop-mediated isothermal amplification (ai-LAMP) with an LFIA readout for protein detection. This platform integrates protein-specific antibody-antigen binding with the robust signal amplification of LAMP. By conjugating pairs of antibodies to overlapping DNA strands, the presence of a target protein brings the DNA strands into proximity, completing a DNA target to directly initiate the LAMP reaction without any additional ligation step. This approach facilitates the rapid detection of low concentration proteins with a clear visual readout and can be performed in 3 steps from sample to answer. Using ai-LAMP we detected HIV-1 p24 on commercially available LFIAs at a limit of detection (LOD) of 20 fM (0.53 pg/mL), demonstrating 46x improvement over existing HIV p24 LFIAs. The use of ai-LAMP eliminates the need for sophisticated laboratory equipment to detect protein targets in low concentrations, paving a new way for rapid and accessible biomarker detection in clinical and research settings.

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acute HIV infectionantigen detectionBiosensorsHIV diagnosticslateral flow immunoassayloop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification

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PMID41040340
PMCPMC12485760

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