Simulation-guided tunable DNA probe design for mismatch tolerant hybridization.

Autor: Bugga P; Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America., Asthana V; Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America., Drezek R; Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Aug 22; Vol. 19 (8), pp. e0305002. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 22 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305002
Abstrakt: The ability to both sensitively and specifically assess the sequence composition of a nucleic acid strand is an ever-growing field. Designing a detection scheme that can perform this function when the sequence of the target being detected deviates significantly from the canonical sequence however is difficult in part because probe/primer design is based on established Watson-Crick base-pairing rules. We present here a robust and tunable toehold-based exchange probe that can detect a sequence with a variable number of SNPs of unknown identity by inserting a series of controlled, sequential mismatches into the protector seal of the toehold probe, in an effort to make the protector seal "sloppy". We show that the mismatch-tolerant system follows predicted behavior closely even with targets containing up to four mismatches that thermodynamically deviate from the canonical sequence by up to 15 kcal/mole. The system also performs faithfully regardless of the global mismatch position on either the protector seal or target. Lastly, we demonstrate the generalizability of the approach by testing the increasingly mismatch-tolerant protectors on HIV clinical samples to show that the system is capable of resolving multiple, iteratively mutated sequences derived from numerous HIV sub-populations with remarkable precision.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Bugga et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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