PMID- 36484412 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230117 LR - 20230117 IS - 1364-5528 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2654 (Linking) VI - 148 IP - 2 DP - 2023 Jan 16 TI - A highly specific and flexible detection assay using collaborated actions of DNA-processing enzymes for identifying multiple gene expression signatures in breast cancer. PG - 316-327 LID - 10.1039/d2an01672a [doi] AB - Most nucleic acid biosensors employ nucleic acid-processing enzymes to bind, degrade, splice, synthesize, and modify nucleic acids. Utilizing their unique substrate preference, binding mode, and catalytic activity is of great importance in designing nucleic acid biosensors. Combination with DNA-processing enzymes enables them to transform into a new generation of molecular diagnostics tools with enhanced selectivity and sensitivity and reduced reaction time. Here, we report an isothermal amplification strategy by coemploying a structure-specific endonuclease (flap endonuclease 1, FEN1) and a strand-displacing DNA polymerase (Bst DNA polymerase) to detect long RNA targets. This approach couples the FEN1-driven invasive cleavage reaction with toehold-mediated rolling circle amplification (iFEN-tRCA), enabling the highly selective and rapid detection of long RNA targets and offering a detection limit below 10 pM within 1 h. We used two targets, such as human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2, encoded by ERBB2) and dopamine- and cyclic AMP-regulated phosphoprotein (DARPP, encoded by PPP1R1B), associated with prognosis or response to anticancer therapy. We demonstrated the feasibility and quantitative capability of the iFEN-tRCA assay by assessing the expression of two RNA transcripts (ERBB2 and PPP1R1B) with total RNA extracts purified from human breast cancer cells. Therefore, we envision that the developed assay will provide a suitable prognostic and diagnostic tool for identifying appropriate patients for HER2-targeted therapy and predicting the clinical outcome and occurrence of metastasis relapse in breast cancer. FAU - Kim, Dain AU - Kim D AD - Department of Bioengineering & Nano-bioengineering, Research Center for Bio Materials and Process Development, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea. e.kim@inu.ac.kr. FAU - Lee, Jiyoung AU - Lee J AD - Division of Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea. FAU - Han, Jueun AU - Han J AD - Department of Chemistry, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lim, Jaewoo AU - Lim J AD - BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea. eklim1112@kribb.re.kr. FAU - Lim, Eun-Kyung AU - Lim EK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2793-3700 AD - BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea. eklim1112@kribb.re.kr. AD - Department of Nanobiotechnology, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, UST, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea. AD - School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kim, Eunjung AU - Kim E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9579-9414 AD - Department of Bioengineering & Nano-bioengineering, Research Center for Bio Materials and Process Development, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea. e.kim@inu.ac.kr. AD - Division of Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230116 PL - England TA - Analyst JT - The Analyst JID - 0372652 RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - EC 2.7.7.7 (DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase) RN - 63231-63-0 (RNA) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Female MH - *Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis/genetics MH - Transcriptome MH - Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques MH - DNA/genetics/metabolism MH - DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry MH - RNA EDAT- 2022/12/10 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/18 06:00 CRDT- 2022/12/09 06:43 PHST- 2022/12/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/12/09 06:43 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d2an01672a [doi] PST - epublish SO - Analyst. 2023 Jan 16;148(2):316-327. doi: 10.1039/d2an01672a.