ZHANG Fengying, SHI Yanhong, JIANG Keji, XU Zhaoli, MA Lingbo. Sensitive and rapid detection of two toxic microalgae Alexandrium by loop-mediated isothermal amplification[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2012, (2): 139-146. doi: 10.1007/s13131-012-0200-5
Citation: ZHANG Fengying, SHI Yanhong, JIANG Keji, XU Zhaoli, MA Lingbo. Sensitive and rapid detection of two toxic microalgae Alexandrium by loop-mediated isothermal amplification[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2012, (2): 139-146. doi: 10.1007/s13131-012-0200-5

Sensitive and rapid detection of two toxic microalgae Alexandrium by loop-mediated isothermal amplification

doi: 10.1007/s13131-012-0200-5
  • Received Date: 2010-12-20
  • Rev Recd Date: 2011-08-08
  • A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay was designed and evaluated for rapid detection of the toxic microalgae Alexandrium catenella and A. minutum, which can produce paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Two sets of four specific primers targeting these two species were derived from the sequence of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of ribosomal DNA. The method worked well in less than an hour under isothermal conditions of 65℃. LAMP specificity was validated in closely related algae as a comparison, suggesting the strict specificity of the LAMP primers. Two visual inspection approaches were feasible to interpret the positive or negative results. The detection limits of A. catenella and A. minutum samples using the LAMP assay were found to be 5.6 and 4.5 pg DNA, respectively. The sensitivity of this LAMP assay was 10 or 100-fold higher than Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method in detecting the two microalgae. These characteristics of species specificity, sensitivity, and rapidity suggest that this method has the potentiality in the monitoring of red tide caused by A. catenella and A. minutum.
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