Rolling circle amplification - A new approach to increase sensitivity for immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry

被引：49

作者：

Gusev, Y ^{[1
]}

Sparkowski, J ^{[1
]}

Raghunathan, A ^{[1
]}

Ferguson, H ^{[1
]}

Montano, J ^{[1
]}

Bogdan, N ^{[1
]}

Schweitzer, B ^{[1
]}

Wiltshire, S ^{[1
]}

Kingsmore, SF ^{[1
]}

Maltzman, W ^{[1
]}

Wheeler, V ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Mol Staging Inc, New Haven, CT 06511 USA

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY | 2001年 / 159卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0002-9440(10)61674-4

中图分类号：

R36 [病理学];

学科分类号：

100104 ;

摘要：

Immunohistochemistry is a method that can provide complementary diagnostic and prognostic information to morphological observations and soluble assays. Sensitivity, specificity, or requirements for arduous sample preparation or signal amplification procedures often limit the application of this approach to routine clinical specimens. Rolling circle amplification (RCA) generates a localized signal via an isothermal amplification of an oligonucleotide circle. The application of this approach to immunohistochemistry could extend the utility of these methods to include a more complete set of immunological and molecular probes. RCA-mediated signal amplification was successfully applied to the sensitive and specific detection of a variety of cell surface antigens (CD3, CD20, and epithelial membrane antigen) and intracellular molecules (vimentin and prostate-specific antigen) within a variety of routinely fixed specimens, as well as samples prepared for flow cytometry. RCA technology, which has an intrinsically wide dynamic range, is a robust and simple procedure that can provide a universal platform for the localization of a wide variety of molecules as a function of either antigenicity or nucleic acid sequence. The use of RCA in this way could enhance the use of markers of current interest as well as permit the integration of emerging information from genomics and proteomics into cell- and tissue-based analyses.

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