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Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented health and economic crisis, highlighting the importance of developing new molecular tools to monitor and detect SARS-CoV-2. Hence, this study proposed to employ the carrageenan extracted from Gigartina skottsbergii algae as a probe for SARS-CoV-2 vir...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10046870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36979590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13030378 |
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author | Zank, Patrícia Daiane Cerveira, Milena Mattes dos Santos, Victor Barboza Klein, Vitor Pereira de Souza, Thobias Toniolo Bueno, Danielle Tapia Poletti, Tais Leitzke, Amanda Fonseca Luehring Giongo, Janice Carreño, Neftali Lenin Villarreal Mansilla, Andrés Astorga-España, Maria Soledad de Pereira, Claudio Martin Pereira Vaucher, Rodrigo de Almeida |
author_facet | Zank, Patrícia Daiane Cerveira, Milena Mattes dos Santos, Victor Barboza Klein, Vitor Pereira de Souza, Thobias Toniolo Bueno, Danielle Tapia Poletti, Tais Leitzke, Amanda Fonseca Luehring Giongo, Janice Carreño, Neftali Lenin Villarreal Mansilla, Andrés Astorga-España, Maria Soledad de Pereira, Claudio Martin Pereira Vaucher, Rodrigo de Almeida |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented health and economic crisis, highlighting the importance of developing new molecular tools to monitor and detect SARS-CoV-2. Hence, this study proposed to employ the carrageenan extracted from Gigartina skottsbergii algae as a probe for SARS-CoV-2 virus binding capacity and potential use in molecular methods. G. skottsbergii specimens were collected in the Chilean subantarctic ecoregion, and the carrageenan was extracted —using a modified version of Webber’s method—, characterized, and quantified. After 24 h of incubation with an inactivated viral suspension, the carrageenan’s capacity to bind SARS-CoV-2 was tested. The probe-bound viral RNA was quantified using the reverse transcription and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) methods. Our findings showed that carrageenan extraction from seaweed has a similar spectrum to commercial carrageenan, achieving an excellent proportion of binding to SARS-CoV-2, with a yield of 8.3%. Viral RNA was also detected in the RT-LAMP assay. This study shows, for the first time, the binding capacity of carrageenan extracted from G. skottsbergii, which proved to be a low-cost and highly efficient method of binding to SARS-CoV-2 viral particles. |
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spelling | pubmed-100468702023-03-29 Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Zank, Patrícia Daiane Cerveira, Milena Mattes dos Santos, Victor Barboza Klein, Vitor Pereira de Souza, Thobias Toniolo Bueno, Danielle Tapia Poletti, Tais Leitzke, Amanda Fonseca Luehring Giongo, Janice Carreño, Neftali Lenin Villarreal Mansilla, Andrés Astorga-España, Maria Soledad de Pereira, Claudio Martin Pereira Vaucher, Rodrigo de Almeida Biosensors (Basel) Article The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented health and economic crisis, highlighting the importance of developing new molecular tools to monitor and detect SARS-CoV-2. Hence, this study proposed to employ the carrageenan extracted from Gigartina skottsbergii algae as a probe for SARS-CoV-2 virus binding capacity and potential use in molecular methods. G. skottsbergii specimens were collected in the Chilean subantarctic ecoregion, and the carrageenan was extracted —using a modified version of Webber’s method—, characterized, and quantified. After 24 h of incubation with an inactivated viral suspension, the carrageenan’s capacity to bind SARS-CoV-2 was tested. The probe-bound viral RNA was quantified using the reverse transcription and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) methods. Our findings showed that carrageenan extraction from seaweed has a similar spectrum to commercial carrageenan, achieving an excellent proportion of binding to SARS-CoV-2, with a yield of 8.3%. Viral RNA was also detected in the RT-LAMP assay. This study shows, for the first time, the binding capacity of carrageenan extracted from G. skottsbergii, which proved to be a low-cost and highly efficient method of binding to SARS-CoV-2 viral particles. MDPI 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10046870/ /pubmed/36979590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13030378 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zank, Patrícia Daiane Cerveira, Milena Mattes dos Santos, Victor Barboza Klein, Vitor Pereira de Souza, Thobias Toniolo Bueno, Danielle Tapia Poletti, Tais Leitzke, Amanda Fonseca Luehring Giongo, Janice Carreño, Neftali Lenin Villarreal Mansilla, Andrés Astorga-España, Maria Soledad de Pereira, Claudio Martin Pereira Vaucher, Rodrigo de Almeida Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title | Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title_full | Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title_fullStr | Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title_full_unstemmed | Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title_short | Carrageenan from Gigartina skottsbergii: A Novel Molecular Probe to Detect SARS-CoV-2 |
title_sort | carrageenan from gigartina skottsbergii: a novel molecular probe to detect sars-cov-2 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10046870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36979590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13030378 |
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