A CRISPR-Cas12a-derived biosensing platform for the highly sensitive detection of diverse small molecules

Bacterial allosteric transcription factors can sense and respond to a variety of small molecules. Here the authors present CaT-SMelor which uses Cas12a and allosteric transcription factors to detect small molecules in the nanomolar range.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mindong Liang, Zilong Li, Weishan Wang, Jiakun Liu, Leshi Liu, Guoliang Zhu, Loganathan Karthik, Man Wang, Ke-Feng Wang, Zhong Wang, Jing Yu, Yuting Shuai, Jiaming Yu, Lu Zhang, Zhiheng Yang, Chuan Li, Qian Zhang, Tong Shi, Liming Zhou, Feng Xie, Huanqin Dai, Xueting Liu, Jingyu Zhang, Guang Liu, Ying Zhuo, Buchang Zhang, Chenli Liu, Shanshan Li, Xuekui Xia, Yaojun Tong, Yanwen Liu, Gil Alterovitz, Gao-Yi Tan, Li-Xin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11648-1