Electrochemical Detection of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Associated with Rifampicin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using Solid-Phase Primer Elongation with Ferrocene-Linked Redox-Labeled Nucleotides.
ACS SENSORS(2021)
Abstract
Here, we report the electrochemical detection of single-point mutations using solid-phase isothermal primer elongation with redox-labeled oligonucleotides. A single-base mutation associated with resistance to rifampicin, an antibiotic commonly used for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was used as a model system to demonstrate a proof-of-concept of the approach. Four 5'-thiolated primers, designed to be complementary with the same fragment of the target sequence and differing only in the last base, addressing the polymorphic site, were self-assembled via chemisorption on individual gold electrodes of an array. Following hybridization with single-stranded DNA, Klenow (exo-) DNA polymerase-mediated primer extension with ferrocene-labeled 2'-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (dNFcTPs) was only observed to proceed at the electrode where there was full complementarity between the surface-tethered probe and the target DNA being interrogated. We tested all four ferrocenylethynyl-linked dNTPs and optimized the ratio of labeled/natural nucleotides to achieve maximum sensitivity. Following a 20 min hybridization step, Klenow (exo-) DNA polymerase-mediated primer elongation at 37 °C for 5 min was optimal for the enzymatic incorporation of a ferrocene-labeled nucleotide, achieving unequivocal electrochemical detection of a single-point mutation in 14 samples of genomic DNA extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. The approach is rapid, cost-effective, facile, and can be extended to multiplexed electrochemical single-point mutation genotyping.
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Key words
single-point mutation, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), ferrocene-labeled nucleotides, nucleoside triphosphates, solid-phase primer elongation, Klenow (exo-) DNA polymerase
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