As a control, we also run infectivity assays as described in Materials and Methods using 4 nasopharyingeal swab samples with relatively high viral loads (CT values 22.11; 21.32; 22.74 and 19.18 for N amplicon). Specifically, we used DisCoVery (targeting N and ORF1ab genes) and Genefinder (targeting N, E and RdRp genes). Its activityis increased in the presence of denaturantssuch as SDS (1%) and elevated temperature (50-60C). The difference was subtle and visible only on much prolonged runs, completed just before the proteins bands were about to leave the gels. Product P6556 is provided as a lyophilized powder. Epub 2022 Dec 8. The digest with NHSSP (full length form) in the ratio 1:50 was performed at 30C overnight. Extraction-free protocol combining proteinase K and heat inactivation for detection of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR Valeria Genoud , Martin Stortz , Ariel Waisman, Bruno G. Berardino, Paula Verneri, Virginia Dansey, Melina Salvatori, Federico Remes Lenicov, Valeria Levi The cultivation conditions in these formats are inherently different than in larger scales, nevertheless, these tests allowed the selection of the most efficient clone and narrowed down the culturing variables. The cycling profile included: 98C for 30s, 30 cycles of 98C for 10s, 65C for 25s and 72C for 25s, and a final step of 72C for 2min. The sample was sequenced for 8 cycles of Edman degradation [15]. We engineered and cloned the synthetic gene, expressed it as a His6-tagged protein in the PichiaPink system and purified the mature enzyme. To our knowledge, Proteinase K cannot be completely heat-inactivated. The National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices of Argentina has recently authorized the use of this method. Fig 1a shows that all positive and negative samples were identified using either HID or PK+HID treatments. This result suggests a similar performance of PK+HID or RNA extraction combined with this detection kit. It was found that for none of the aa F, leucine (L) and serine (S) that were previously observed as preferential cleavage sites of NHSSP with BSA were affected by a decrease of pH. Full enzymatic activity requires the presence of calcium ions . A recent work suggested that PK may facilitate extraction-free determinations of SARS-CoV-2 although a major loss in sensitivity with a ~6-units shift in CT values on the determination of the envelope (E) gene [21] may prevent its uses in clinical analysis. When the sugar-phosphate backbone is cleaved by an RNase, the F is spatially separated from the Q, allowing for fluorescence. For the majority of workflows, Thermolabile Proteinase K can be heat inactivated by incubating at 55C for 10 minutes. The purified enzymes were characterized to determine the optimal proteolytic conditions. The .gov means its official. (A) Proteinase K (2 g/L) treatment time was reduced from 30 to 20 and 10 min. 1.5ml of BMGY medium was inoculated with a single white clone per well and grown at 30C in an orbital shaker at 250rpm mixing. Figure1 summarizes NHSSP expression and purification expressed from the pPink-HC-NHSSP clone. Here, we combined heat inactivation with a pretreatment with PK, protease routinely used in nucleic acid preparations and thus widely available in most clinical laboratories. We next tested if using a higher volume of PK+HID samples could improve SARS-CoV-2 detection in the RT-qPCR determinations. Secretion peptide nativemarked in green, propeptidemarked in yellow. Methods for analysing the proteolytic activity of serine proteases are well-known, e.g. If the minimum aa residue number was not reached, they are underlined. When you are looking to clone with confidence, think of NEB. Our results indicate that the combination of proteinase K preincubation with heat inactivation is a very robust and reliable procedure for extraction-free RT-qPCR determinations of SARS-CoV-2. The short single-stranded RNA substrate is bookended with a fluorescein (F) molecule and quencher (Q). Rapid, convenient and efficient kit-independent detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Expression construct pPink-HC-NHSSP (Fig. Linear absorbance range was 0.1 to 1.0, with r=0.99. This will not negatively affect the QIAamp Procedure, sincethe enzyme will be efficiently removedby the wash steps in the protocols. J Virol Methods. Therefore, we next evaluate if the improvement of PK+HID treatment compared to heat-inactivation is only due to the dilution of the saline medium. These samples were analyzed by RT-qPCR using the 2019-nCoV CDC Diagnostic Panel which detects the N1 and N2 viral regions and the human RNase P (RP) gene as internal control. While most bibliography, as well as our own findings point to N as the most sensitive viral region, ORF1ab gene also showed a good performance with our extraction-free protocol. Positive nasopharyngeal swab samples were processed for RNA extraction (purified RNA) or subjected to treatment with PK 1 mg/ml (55C for 15 min) followed by heat inactivation at 98C for 5 min (PK+HID). For the majority of workflows, Thermolabile Proteinase K can be heat inactivated by incubating at 55C for 10 minutes. See this image and copyright information in PMC. The activity of Proteinase K is increased in the presence of denaturants such as SDS (1%) and elevated temperature (50-60C). Please sign back in to continue your session. 48h cultured media were analysed for the presence of the recombinant protein on SDS-PAGE and Western blots using rabbit anti-His6 antibodies. Vivaflow 10kDa MWCO PES filtered cassette was from Sartorius (Gttingen, Germany). pPink-HC-NHSSP plasmid construct sequence, translation and features. The pH optimum is between pH 5.4 and pH 7.3 (about 60% of the maximum activity), and the enzyme is most active between pH 6 and 7 (about 80% of the maximum activity) with an optimum at pH 6.8 (Fig. These PK+HID samples were kept at 4C. Here, we describe an extraction-free protocol for SARS-CoV-2 detection by RT-qPCR from nasopharyngeal swab clinical samples in saline solution. Selected clones were grown in 24-well plates in 1ml of BMMY medium. Using the pPink-HC-NHSSP construct as a template, a PCR reaction was performed to obtain the C-terminally truncated version of the NHSSP-His6 gene, devoid of 4 C-terminal aa and the His6-tag (Additional files 7, 8, 9). The above-mentioned conditions enhance . The analysis by RT-qPCR usually requires a previous extraction step to obtain the purified viral RNA. Lanes 1, PageRuler Prestained Protein Ladder; lanes 213, expression culture supernatants from selected PichiaPink clones transformed with pPink-HC-NHSSP; lane 14, positive control for His6-tagged protein (25kDa). However, since the NHSSP did not bind to affinity resins exposing chelated Ni2+ ion, its N- and C-terminal aa sequence was verified by aa sequencing and peptide mass fingerprinting, it is safe to conclude that the molecular weight discrepancy comes from atypical NHSSP migration on denaturing SDS-PAGE gels. QIAGEN Protease is inactivated by incubation at70C for 15 minutes. -, Esbin MN, Whitney ON, Chong S, Maurer A, Darzacq X, Tjian R. Overcoming the bottleneck to widespread testing: a rapid review of nucleic acid testing approaches for COVID-19 detection. b Reaction pH activity range and optimum. (a) CT values obtained from RT-qPCR analysis of the same samples prepared by both different methods. 2b). c del-NHSSP inactivation time at 60C. Universal buffer solutions and the dissociation constant of veronal. In this last validation assay, we also analyzed the amplification curves of positive samples with relatively low viral loads (CT values >30) to estimate the relative amount of viral amplicon copies in the PK+HID and RNA samples volumes used in the RT-qPCR determination. Fig 3 shows that the PK+HID treatment of the samples allows the detection of viral and internal control genes. You have been idle for more than 20 minutes, for your security you have been logged out. We revealed that the mature NHSSP is reproduciblyactive over a wide pH range from neutral to mild acidic (pH of 5.0 to 8.5), with an optimum at pH 6.8, and at temperatures of 15 to 50C with an optimum at 3842C. It was observed that SDS must be combined with proteinase K, dithiothreitol, or both for irreversible and complete RNase inactivation in serum. However, the thermolability of the enzyme is affected by salt concentration, pH, and the concentration of metal ions present in the reaction mixture. Proteinase K Inactivation. Curr Med Sci. In contrast, as a tool for sequence confirmation and peptide mapping of proteins the NHSSP can be very useful. Proteinase K products are free of detectable DNase and RNase. To gain further data about the potential specificity, or at least preferential cleavage sites, the detected peptides were analysed with regard to the C-terminal aa. Production of NHSSP in PichiaPink system. We are grateful for the cooperation with the colleagues of TopLab GmbH (Munich, Germany) who excellently performed peptide mass analyses and discussed with us the use of the enzyme in protein sequencing. There are ongoing research efforts into simple and low-cost point-of-care nucleic acid amplification tests (NATs) addressing widespread diagnostic needs in resource-limited clinical settings. Chen Y-J, Inouye M. The intramolecular chaperone-mediated protein folding. Thus we suspected that the C-terminus of recombinant NHSSP, containing His6-tag, is either buried and inaccessible within the protein structure or C-terminus processing takes place. Secretion peptide nativemarked in green, propeptidemarked in yellow, His6-tagmarked in red. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by direct RT-qPCR on nasopharyngeal specimens without extraction of viral RNA. Finally, we asked whether PK+HID could be combined with a SARS-CoV-2 LAMP detection kit since they are now widely used in many countries because their simplicity and associated lower costs. As the determination of the pH optimum showed a broad activity centring around pH 7.0, we were curious about the performance at lower pH. Careers, Unable to load your collection due to an error. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Unidad de Microanlisis y Mtodos Fsicos en Qumica Orgnica (UMYMFOR), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6 One of these proteases (GenBank Accession No. d NHSSP inactivation time at 60C. The upper temperature range was more closely investigated to evaluate the possibility of a rapid, relatively low temperature inactivation, which is of key importance in industrial applications. Before Baker SE. Esbin MN, Whitney ON, Chong S, Maurer A, Darzacq X, Tjian R. Overcoming the bottleneck to widespread testing: a rapid review of nucleic acid testing approaches for COVID-19 detection. Ragan KB, Bhadra S, Choi JH, Towers D, Sullivan CS, Ellington AD. Sample Buffer Containing Guanidine-Hydrochloride Combines Biological Safety and RNA Preservation for SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Diagnostics. An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus Onygena corvina for biotechnology: cloning, engineering, expression, characterization and special application for protein sequencing. Fast SARS-CoV-2 detection by RT-qPCR in preheated nasopharyngeal swab samples. Your profile has been mapped to an Institution, please sign back for your profile updates to be completed. Starting at a temperature of 60C, the Genaxxon Proteinase K Low-Temp is heat-inactivated, making it ideal for heat-sensitive samples. Fractions containing NHSSP protein were pooled and combined. We solved the problem of SDS sensitivity by applying TCA-precipitation before SDS treatment. Performance of PK+HID method in RT-qPCR determinations of the SARS-CoV-2 N, RdRp and, MeSH Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different settings: a mathematical modelling study, The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic. Apparently, this is associated with a shorter time needed to obtain the maximum yield of the engineered C-deletion derivative of NHSSP. The use of EDTA is also suggested to help the inactivation of nucleases by inhibiting Mg 2+ dependent nucleases. We determined the amplification efficiency of the viral regions N and ORF1ab and the human gene RP and found that these values were similar for PK+HID and purified RNA samples (Fig 3b). UniProt: Accession No. Nucleic acid testing for RNA targets in blood specimens typically requires sample preparation that inactivates robust blood ribonucleases (RNases) that can rapidly degrade exogenous RNA. The reaction was carried out at 42C for 50min with constant agitation at 300rpm using a TS-100 Thermo-Shaker, SC-20 (Biosan Ltd). However, the thermolability of the enzyme is affected by salt concentration, pH, and the concentration of metal ions present in the reaction mixture. In conclusion, PK+HID is a robust, fast and inexpensive procedure for extraction-free RT-qPCR determinations of SARS-CoV-2. This work was supported by: - Agencia Nacional de Promocin de la Investigacin, el Desarrollo Tecnolgico y la Innovacin (ANPCyT). Proteinase K: Useful for multiple applications outside of the MasterPure Kits including (i) isolation of plasmids and high molecular weight gDNA, purification of intact RNA, and inactivation of RNases, DNases and other enzymes in molecular biology reactions. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. [8] for protease 6877 of O. corvina (EMBL protein database, Accession No KP290860) [11], a protein with the native protease 6877 signal peptide (SP) and a C-terminal His6-tag was designed. Since the C-terminal processing has eliminated the possibility for application of immobilized metal affinity chromatography in the NHSSP purification, we developed a simple, easily scalable purification protocol, including ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydrophobic chromatography. The site is secure. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Comparison of media and standards for SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR without prior RNA preparation, Direct-RT-qPCR Detection of SARS-CoV-2 without RNA Extraction as Part of a COVID-19 Testing Strategy: From Sample to Result in One Hour. Comparison of range and optimal temperature and pH for activity of recombinant NHSSP and del-NHSSP. While the activity of proteinase K increases with temperature, and is optimized at about 65 C, heating proteinase K to 95 C for 10 minutes will inactivate it. Work conducted by Huang et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.01.081. international site. In particular, proteases active at cold or moderate temperatures are finding increasing applications in food processing, cleaning, industrial conversion processes, protein bio-waste removal and medicinal uses, such as drug production or wound healing [4, 6]. Generally, broad specificity proteases, such as proteinase K or trypsin, have found numerous applications in research and biotechnology. Would you like email updates of new search results? Epub 2019 Oct 31. This publication was supported by Barentzymes AS, in particular we would like to appreciate the continuous support of Sigurd Aase and Maria Borlik. J Chem Soc. The determined reaction parameters for both NHSSP variants, e.g. CAS 2d). Arrows indicate the cleavage sites given in the fragment table for the digested protein of the Mascot Search results (allergenic region highlighted in red) (Additional file 15-5). Incubation is at 37C for 30 minutes. The method includes a treatment with proteinase K followed by heat inactivation (PK+HID method). Even when incubating at 95C for 10 minutes, some enzymatic activity remains. Pretreatment Methods for Human Nasopharyngeal Swabs to Increase the Signal to Noise Ratio of High Sensitivity Immunoassays. Amplification efficiency: linking baseline and bias in the analysis of quantitative PCR data. Only Fe2+, Zn2+ showed minor stimulations of approx. Three replicates of the reduced and alkylated samples were diluted with 50l of 1 PBS pH 6.5, three replicates were diluted with 50l of 1 PBS pH 6.0 and three replicates were diluted with 50l of 1PBS pH 5.0. Here, we describe an extraction-free protocol for SARS-CoV-2 detection by RT-qPCR from nasopharyngeal swab clinical samples in saline solution. Recombinant, His6-tagged NHSSP was efficiently expressed from an optimized, synthetic gene and purified using a simple protocol based on ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydrophobic interaction chromatography. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. The viral N1 and N2 genes and the human RNase P gene (RP) were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. These results, obtained with a different detection kit, agree with those showed in Fig 1 also supporting that the PK treatment improves the performance of the heat-inactivation method. Epub 2007 May 21. This study aimed to detect the SARS-COV2 viral component directly from inoculated VTM without RNA extraction. The method combined with a multiplexing detection kit targeting N and ORF1ab viral genes showed a sensitivity of 0.99 and a specificity of 0.99 from the analysis of 106 positive and 106 negative clinical samples. KP290860 Accessed 8 Sept 2019. Therefore, we tested if repeated cycles of freezing/thawing of the PK stock solution may affect the performance of PK+HID. Although the detection of the E and RdRp genes with the Genefinder kit was weaker than the detection of the N gene, the relatively high detection sensitivity of the PK+HID method estimated from the analysis of 94 randomly selected samples suggests that the PK+HID method can be used as an alternative, extraction-free RT-qPCR analysis of nasopharyngeal swab samples in clinical diagnostics. As an alternative to self-cleavage of the C-terminus by NHSSP, the shortening of the enzyme may also be achieved by truncating the encoding gene. Therefore, the dilution of saline solution could not completely explain the better performance of PK+HID. email or call1-800-NEB-LABS. UniProt Knowledgebase. The detection of these genes was unexpected since the HID method did not provide satisfactory results in the detection of larger amplicons [17]. Additionally, the enzyme appears to be beneficial for the analysis of posttranslational modifications such as deamidations since it works with high efficiency in buffers below pH 7.0. One of the best characterized is the pentapeptide with the sequence N-IPAVF-C [19] derived from the most abundant protein in whey, lactoglobulin. Although the sensitivity of the assay is expected to be higher with more copies of the viral RNA template, a previous report also suggested that increasing too much this volume may have the opposite effect due to RT-qPCR inhibitors in the sample matrix [17]. The viral N, E and, RdRp genes and the human RP gene were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. Two temperatures were tested: 50C and 60C. [8], and Lange et al. This feature may be very helpful in the identification of modifications, for example in the quality control of GMP material of clinical samples of antibodies and other proteinaceous medical entities. Therefore, the optimal inactivation temperature and incubation time may need to be empirically determined for specific workflows. Masses with carbamidomethyl at C were set as fixed modification and oxidation of methionine (M) and pyroglutamate formation at N-terminal glutamine (Q) were set as variable modifications. In these experiments, we correctly identified all positive (27/27) and negative (6/6) samples. (a-b) Positive (#8, #11, #12, #16, #19, #20) and negative (#1, #2, #3) nasopharyngeal swab samples were processed by heat inactivation (HID, 98C for 5 min); proteinase K treatment followed by heat inactivation (PK+HID, 55C for 15 min and 98C for 5 min) or subjected to RNA extraction (purified RNA). pPink-HC-del-NHSSP plasmid construct map and features. The cloning, expression, protein engineering, purification and characterization have been undertaken to provide a novel enzymatic tool for proteolytic applications in industry and research. 3). The viral N1 and N2 genes and the human RP gene were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. Therefore, the activity of the enzyme was assessed using BSA under more acidic cleavage conditions (pH 6.5, 6.0 and 5.0) that are a prerequisite for the characterization of posttranslational modifications of proteins, since the introduction of artificial protein modifications (such as deamidations) during sample handling is significantly reduced below pH 7.0. Proteinase K is frequently used in molecular biology applications to digest unwanted proteins, such as nucleases from DNA or RNA preparations from microorganisms, cultured cells, and plants.5-11The enzyme is typically used at 50-200 mg/ml in nucleic acid preparationsat pH 7.5-8.0 and 37 C. The protein concentration in solution was determined spectrophotometrically at 280nm using factor A1%10mm=11.0 as predicted by DNASTAR Protean Package v.11 based on the aa composition of NHSSP. We verified that the performance of the PK+HID does not depend on PK concentration in the range of 0.11 mg/ml; this robustness of the PK+HID method is appealing since small variations in the PK concentration will not significantly affect the results of SARS-CoV-2 determinations and also allows reducing even more the costs of sample preparation for RT-qPCR assays. If you don't see your country above, please visit our Disclaimer. Compared to proteinase K, the most common serine protease used, NHSSP shows an approx. An alternative for proteinase K-heat-sensitive protease from fungus, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-020-01392-3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.01.081, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-018-9265-1, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. 1). Ten positive nasopharyngeal swab samples were processed by PK treatment followed by heat inactivation. For the majority of workflows, Thermolabile Proteinase K can be heat inactivated by incubating at 55C for 10 minutes. In these experiments, we mixed up 90 l of the samples with 10 l of PK 10 mg/ml (final concentration 1 mg/ml) in 0.2 ml PCR tubes and incubated them in a thermocycler during 15 min at 55C followed by 5 min at 98C (PK+HID samples). The NHSSP may be used in detergent, protein, brewing, bakery, meat, photographic, leather, dairy and pharmaceutical industries [4]. 2023 Feb 11;15(2):509. doi: 10.3390/v15020509. Proteinase K can be stored at room temperature (18-25 degrees . We next ran RT-qPCR determinations of SARS-CoV-2 in PK+HID and purified RNA samples prepared from positive and negative nasopharyngeal swab samples. The processed data required to reproduce these findings are available to download as Additional files of this paper. Proteinase K is useful for the proteolytic inactivation of nucleases during the isolation of DNA and RNA. The viral N1 and N2 genes and the human RNase P gene (RP) were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. The enzyme shows atypical C-terminal processing, the coded preproprotein undergoes signal peptide removal and maturation through the clipping of a propeptide section and 10 amino acids (aa) from the C-terminus, including the His6-tag. European Patent Office no A2362DG-EP. Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. For the measurement with nanoLC-ESIMS/MS about 0.25g of the trypsin digests and 0.5g NHSSP digests were applied. Other tested strains included: Strain 2 (ade2, pep4), Strain 3 (ade2, prb1), and Strain 4 (ade2, prb1, pep4), which all gave lower expression levels (not shown). Endoproteinase Asp-N (11058541103) was from Roche Diagnostics (Warsaw, Poland). Anal Biochem. 2020 March 12, 2020. 10600003) in BSN buffer (48mM Tris, 39mM glycine, pH 9.2, 20% methanol) at 25V for 20min, using a Trans-Blot SD Semi-Dry Transfer Cell System (BioRad, Hercules, CA). Synthetic DNA fragment sequence, translation and features, comprising optimized SP-PRO-NHSSP gene with deleted C-terminal 4 aa and His6-tag. Take advantage of free shipping for any order totaling over $350. Keep in mind, however, that heating proteinase K does not fully inactivate the enzyme. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. I offer you to use ethanol precipitation. Mix well and add 150l of reconstituted Proteinase K to the first tube in each strip. The specific activity is about 300, when one unit hydrolyzes 1 mole of Ac-Tyr-OEt per min at pH 9.3 and 30C in Tris-HCl buffer . For pH optimum determinations, the enzymatic hydrolysis of azocasein was measured in Britton-Robinson buffer [14] at 30C for 30min. The enzyme exhibits broad cleavage specificity on native and denatured proteins and is widely used in the purification of DNA and RNA. As matrix, alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid was used. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The choice of the PichiaPink host was critically important, as for industrial production purposes it is desirable to obtain enzymes secreted from cells, which are then easily removed by centrifugation or filtration. Liu X, Jiang D, Peterson DG. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies The N-terminus of the isolated, mature NHSSP was determined to be Ala-Leu-Thr-Thr-Gln-Pro-Asn-Ala, while the C-terminus is suggested to be Leu-Leu-Tyr-Asn-Gly-Ser (Additional files 13, 14). 80l of competent cells were pre-incubated with 10g of plasmid DNA on ice for 5min. However, most laboratories use PCR kits that target other viral genes often combined in multiplex setups. The RNA extraction step has nowadays become the bottleneck in COVID-19 testing, especially during pandemic outbreaks when personnel, resources and biosafety compatible facilities to perform the testing are scarce. Proteinase K treatment and organic extraction: Proteinase K treatment followed by phenol:chloroform extraction is probably the most rigorous method for DNase inactivation and removal, but it is time-consuming, and organic extractions often cause some sample loss. J Med Microbiol. Cells were grown in 6 L batch of BSM medium on glycerol as a carbon source for 24h. Then the culture was fed with methanol in cascade mode depending on oxygen level (maintained at minimum 30%) for another 100h. Expression level of NHSSP in the culture medium was analysed on SDS-PAGE and d on Western blot. As a control, 100l 0.5% w/v azocasein dissolved in the same buffer as the sample was added to 300l of 0.6M TCA before the addition of 100l of enzyme solution. Product information. The sequential treatment with proteinase K, cellulase, and NaClO showed a significantly higher synergistic inactivation of 2.83 log CFU/cm2 compared to 1.58 log CFU/cm2 in the sequence of . It also provides flexibility in the workload of clinical labs because the preparation of PCR tubes with PK solution could be done outside the Biosafety Level 2 facility in a clean, nucleic acid-free area. An overview on fermentation, downstream processing and properties of microbial alkaline proteases. 1nmol of BLG (Applied Biosystems 400 979) and Rituximab (Mabthera Roche) was dissolved in 50l 8M urea/0.4M ammonium bicarbonate, pH 8.0 and reduced by the addition of 5l 45mM dithiothreitol at 55C for 1h. After cooling to room temperature, alkylation of cysteines was performed with 5l 100mM iodoacetamide for 15min in the dark. In line with these reports, our data shows that preincubation with PK improves the performance of the heat-inactivation protocol in RT-qPCR assays targeting N1 and N2 viral genes with the 2019-nCoV CDC Diagnostic Panel. The deletion variant has been constructed, devoid of the C-terminal ORF segment, thus eliminating the need for C-terminal processing. mixture your RNA extract with 1:2 -20 cold, ethanol than centrifuge it at max speed for 30 min. Numerous alkaline serine proteases (EC 3.4.21) and genes encoding such enzymes have been isolated from eukaryotic organisms, including yeast and fungi. Copyright 2020 Association for Molecular Pathology and American Society for Investigative Pathology. UniProt Consortium, 20022019. Disclaimer. The bioinformatics analysis revealed that aa 20144 comprise a propeptide sequence and aa 145401 the final mature, His6-tagged NHSSP (Additional files 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). This work was supported by: - Agencia Nacional de Promocin de la Investigacin, el Desarrollo Tecnolgico y la Innovacin (ANPCyT). How do I heat inactivate Thermolabile Proteinase K? The National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices of Argentina has recently authorized the use of this method. Unfortunately, RNA extraction constitutes a bottleneck for early detection in many countries since it is expensive, time-consuming and depends on the availability of commercial kits. After the 3rd passage of cell culture, we did not verify any cytopathic effect and the viral RNA was not detected by RT-qPCR showing that the PK+HID treatment also inactivates the virus. Nasopharyngeal swab samples were diluted 1:2 in DMEM, filtered through a 0.22 mm-pore-filter and added to cell cultures for 1 h. Then, cultures were washed and incubated for 3 days. Samples were incubated at 55C for 15 min and then at 98C for 5 min in a thermal cycler with heated lid. Different Respiratory Samples for COVID-19 Detection by Standard and Direct Quantitative RT-PCR: A Literature Review. The synthetic DNA was cut with EcoRI/KpnI, then purified and ligated with T4 DNA ligase. PCT Patent Application WO2015158719A1. Swabs were deposited in 25 ml of saline solution. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted We are currently testing this application option. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Before The N1 and N2 viral regions and the human RP (internal control) were detected in singleplex 20 l-volume reactions using 5 l of purified RNA or 5 l of PK+HID samples unless specifically stated in the text. There will always be a small amount of activity remaining through this method. Protein hyperproduction in fungi by design. Epub 2021 Mar 18. This native SP has been used in recombinant constructs, as several other PichiaPink SPs tested in this work did not lead to the efficient secretion of NHSSP (not shown). The enzyme showed a high cleavage efficiency resulting in superior sequence coverage for example in comparison to trypsin. Cleavage sites within the allergenic epitopes of BLG. pPink-HC-del-NHSSP plasmid sequence and features. Chen H, Feng S, Zhou W, Li Z, Richard-Greenblatt M, Wang P. ACS Meas Sci Au. K-PK conceived the project, participated in the results interpretation and manuscript writing; PMS coordinated project execution, obtained Barentzymes funds and wrote the manuscript; RB designed the DNA vectors, conducted protein expression, purification and some of the protease functional assays; MD and PK conducted some of the protease functional assays; DK participated in the expression and purification experiments. Thus, a deletion derivative clone was made, mimicking the C-terminal processing. Epub 2020 Sep 9. The recombinant NHSSP variants and their applications are owned by Barentzymes AS (Norway) and has been protected by EU patent application A2362DG-EP [21], that are currently being processed. Michel D, Danzer KM, Gross R, Conzelmann C, Muller JA, Freischmidt A, et al. Moreover, we show that this extraction-free protocol can be combined with a variety of multiplexing RT-qPCR kits. Since trypsin cleaves with high specificity after arginine (R) and lysine (K), a lower number of peptides with masses in the measurement range of the mass spectrometer (2002000m/z) can be expected, dependent on the sequence. 2020 March 12, 2020. Beltrn-Pavez C, Alonso-Palomares LA, Valiente-Echeverra F, Gaggero A, Soto-Rifo R, Barriga GP. The protease activity of the enzyme was determined as previously described by Huang et al. b pH effect. Adams NM, Leelawong M, Benton A, Quinn C, Haselton FR, Schmitz JE. These represent the largest subgroup of commercially used serine proteases. PubMed Central To determine the mature NHSSP borders and calculate the actual molecular weight of the mature protein, we conducted N- and C-terminal sequencing, as well as peptide mass fingerprinting. These results support that the PK+HID treatment contributes to inactivate inhibitors of the PCR reaction. Its activity is increased in the presence of denaturants such as SDS (1%) and elevated temperature (50-60C). Cite this article. Wyspianskiego 27 Street, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland, Institute for Molecular Bio Science, University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. An official website of the United States government. In addition, we included digestion with trypsin as a reference. The gene coding for protease 6877 (NHSSP) from feather-degrading fungus O. corvina has been cloned and expressed in yeast and an efficient purification protocol was developed. 1931;1456:62. HPLC elution profiles of NHSSP-cleaved monoclonal mAb. The results seen in Table4 suggest that NHSSP may have a certain preference for L and (tyrosine)Y within the tested proteins although we rather conclude that the protease seems to be rather non-specific in the choice of aa. Santaus TM, Zhang F, Li S, Stine OC, Geddes CD. Incubation times vary from 30 minutes to 18 hours. M A. K., A, Ananth S, Kothandaraman A, Hedge M, Chaubey A, et al. The mean differences in CT values between these samples were 0.17 0.15 (N), -0.05 0.20 (ORF1ab) and 0.01 0.14 (RP) (Ndata = 10) showing that the PK stock solution is stable for up to 10 cycles of freezing/thawing. Microbial Cell Factories The performance is robust over a broad pH range. government site. Merindol et al [32] found that saline solution swab medium impaired the performance of the AllplexTM 2019-nCoV Assay. Additionally, some of the N-positive RNA samples (also considered SARS-CoV-2 positive in clinical diagnosis [24]) showed negative results for the E and RdRp amplicons (3/38 and 4/38, respectively); this difference increased in PK+HID samples with 8 more samples showing negative results for both amplicons while being N-positive. The pH level was kept at 4.8 at the beginning of culturing, then at pH 5.5 after induction was adjusted and controlled with 10% ammonia. government site. MedTech Dive Magazine. Ulloa S, Bravo C, Parra B, Ramirez E, Acevedo A, Fasce R, et al. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268692. The .gov means its official. Methanol supplementation to induce expression was carried out for 48-80h. The expression level was analysed over time during fermentation (Fig. Protein sequencing can be a valuable technical application for the protease. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies At the beginning of the sequencing run, a blank gradient and a standard mixture containing 10pmol of the PTH-derivatives of each of the 19 proteinogenic aa (without C) was analyzed. The protein pellet containing active NHSSP was resuspended in Resuspension buffer (50mM buffer NaH2PO4/Na2HPO4, 50mM NaCl, pH 6.6) and dialyzed overnight against resuspension buffer in a proportion of 1:250 (v/v). The chemically synthesized DNA was cloned into the pPink-HC vector, forming a perfect fusion with the vectors start codon. 2022 Jun 29;2(5):414-421. doi: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00024. The PichiaPink Strain 1 (ade2) was used for transformation. The expression plasmid was constructed by cloning a 1219-bp fragment (Additional files 1, 2, 3) comprising the synthetic gene encoding full-length NHSSP-His6 from O. corvina into the multiple cloning site of the vector pPink-HC into sites EcoRI (5-end) and KpnI (3-end). between the volumes assayed in the previous section) in the following RT-qPCR assays. Skowron, P.M., Krefft, D., Brodzik, R. et al. Would you like email updates of new search results? CT values obtained for the same samples prepared by the two different methods (N = 27), the line obtained by regression of the data (continuous lines) and 95% confidence bands (pink) are represented. The viral N, E and, RdRp genes and the human RP gene were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. The effects of proteinase K, nonionic surfactants, SDS, dithiothreitol, and other additives on RNase activity in human serum are reported. Since proteases cleave critically important cellular components, they are inherently very toxic to the cell if not properly controlled. Epub 2021 Jan 9. Taking the N- and the C-terminal aa into account as the borders of the mature enzyme, a molecular weight of 28.4kDa was calculated. Recombinant cells carrying either pPink-HC-NHSSP or pPink-HC-del-NHSSP were grown in 24-well plates. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/agencia - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientficas y Tcnicas (CONICET). This result suggests that the PK treatment may contribute to degrade unknown components of the sample matrix that interfere with RT-qPCR. of 50-100 mg/ml in the presence of 100mg/ml in the presence of 100mg/ml in the absence of 100mg/ml. The median of each measurement is represented with a line in the bars and the lengths of these bars represent the standard error (N = 16). These results are consistent with other works that also tested the performance of heat-inactivated respiratory samples in RT-qPCR assays [8,11,2629]. The integrity of the expression cassette encoding preproNHSSP-His6 in pPink-HC-NHSSP was confirmed by DNA sequencing using a forward primer 5-GACTGGTTCCAATTGACAAGC-3 specific to the vectors AOX1 promoter and reverse primer 5-GCGTGAATGTAAGCGTGAC specific to the CYC1 terminator. . 10 l of a solution 10 mg/ml Proteinase K (Promega, Madison, WI, USA or FlashPrep ARN SARS-CoV-2 Highway, Inbio Highway, Tandil, Argentina) were placed in 0.2 ml PCR tubes. In the case of viral amplicons, the CT values obtained with PK+HID samples linearly correlated with those obtained with purified RNA samples. (b) Representative amplification curves for each gene obtained for one of the positive samples. (b) Amplification efficiencies obtained in PK+HID samples (EPK+HID) relative to the corresponding purified RNA samples (Epurified RNA). Monoclonal mAb digest with NHSSP and matched protein sequences. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. Evaluating the efficacy of RT-qPCR SARS-CoV-2 direct approaches in comparison to RNA extraction. Phenyl-Sepharose 6FastFlow (low sub) resin and Amersham LMW Calibration Kit For SDS Electrophoresis: 9730kDa were from GE Healthcare (Chicago, IL, USA). Immediately after the pulse, 1ml of ice-cold YPDS medium was added to the cells and incubated at 30C for 4h. 100l or 200l of cells were plated on MGY plates and grown for 34days at 30C. CAS 2020 Mar 11, 2020. Typically, mature serine proteases have a molecular mass around 25 to 30kDa [4] and are generally active at neutral or alkaline pH, with an optimum between pH 7.0 and 11.0, and have broad substrate specificity. the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health. Gurumallesh P, Alagu K, Ramakrishnan B, Muthusamy S. A systematic reconsideration on proteases. Other recent preprint [22] tested a protocol based on PK and heat inactivation using a reduced number of samples (N = 17) in UTM medium with relative low CT values, and claim a good sensitivity on the determination of the E gene. The GenBank genetic sequence database. PMSF and SDS were identified as inhibitors of NHSSP, whereas EDTA, TCEP, Triton-X100, urea, DTT and -mercaptoethanol did not significantly inhibit protease activity (Table2). Proteinase K improves the performance, Fig 1. This activation process may result from the autocatalytic processing of the serine protease zymogen or through the presence of other proteolytic activities. (d) Positive nasopharyngeal swab samples were subjected to treatment with different concentrations of proteinase K (PK) followed by heat inactivation (55C for 15 min and 98C for 5 min). pPink-HC-NHSSP plasmid construct map and features. MSalvatori declares no competing interest. Quantitative isothermal amplification on paper membranes using amplification nucleation site analysis. Restriction endonucleases, T4 DNA ligase, calf intestinal phosphatase were from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc./Fermentas (Vilnus, Lithuania). Secretion peptide nativemarked in green, propeptidemarked in yellow, His6-tagmarked in red. 2020;583(7817):5069. Indeed, the use of this method was authorized by the National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices of Argentina (ANMAT) on December 14, 2020 and it is currently being used in some public and private diagnostic labs. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. Moreover, we show that this extraction-free protocol can be combined with a variety of multiplexing RT-qPCR kits. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Fisiologa, Biologa Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 [8] revealed the sequences for a vast number of putative and/or verified proteases found in the genome of the feather-digesting fungus O. corvina, including the sequence for protease 6877 of O. corvina (EMBL protein database, Accession No. The Scientist Magazine. Vogels CBF, Brito AF, Wyllie AL, Fauver JR, Ott IM, Kalinich CC, et al. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The membrane was blocked with 5% non-fat milk in PBS buffer and incubated with rabbit anti-His6 mAb for 1h at room temperature at 1: 5000 dilution in PBS-T buffer, washed 3 times with PBS-T and incubated for 1h at room temperature with goat anti-rabbit antibodies conjugated to horseradish peroxidase at 1:10,000 dilution in PBS-T. After washing, reactive protein bands were visualized with a chemiluminescent substrate for peroxidase. The recommended working concentration is 50-100 g/mL for protein removal and enzyme inactivation and up to 2 mg/mL for tissue treatment. Most of these samples show high CT values suggesting that they correspond to swab samples with relatively low viral loads. This observation is also valid for samples with relatively high CT values (>35) indicating that weak positive samples are still detected with the PK+HID method. 20% or more activity in the range of 1550C and optimum at 40C. Wang YH, Chen YW, Xiao WL, Li XL, Feng L, Liu YL, Duan XX. The reduced and alkylated samples were diluted with 1 PBS to a urea concentration of 2M. The digest with del-NHSSP (truncated form) in the ratio 1:50 was performed at 30C overnight. https://www.uniprot.org/. The effect of divalent metal cations Mn2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Fe2+, Zn2+ used at the concentration of 5mM, was conducted in buffers with increased pH, to avoid hydrolysis: HEPES pH 8.0 and/or GlycineNaOH, pH 9.8. The gold standard method for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swab samples is RT-qPCR, a technique with exquisite sensitivity and high specificity commonly applied to analyze purified RNA samples. The median of each measurement is represented with a line in the bars and the lengths of these bars represent the standard error. Your profile has been mapped to an Institution, please sign back for your profile updates to be completed. Fig 1d shows that CT values obtained for the viral and human amplicons did not change within this PK concentration range. Place your order before 7:30pm EST for overnight delivery. qPCR amplification curves obtained in those experiments using DisCoVery and GeneFinder detection kits were analyzed with the CFX Manager software (BioRad) to obtain CT values. Taking a step back from testing: Preanalytical considerations in molecular infectious disease diagnostics. Effects of Lyse-It on endonuclease fragmentation, function and activity. BLG digest with NHSSP and matched protein sequence. Secretion peptide nativemarked in green, propeptidemarked in yellow, His6-tagmarked in red. Mean SEM values are represented (N = 5). Kucharski AJ, Klepac P, Conlan AJK, Kissler SM, Tang ML, Fry H, et al. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the COVID-19 diagnostics for resource-limited settings: Evaluation of "unextracted" qRT-PCR. -. 2023 Mar 9;13:1130749. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1130749. a Purified del-NHSSP expressed by pPink-HC-del-NHSSP clone. 2022 Jun 14;22(12):2352-2363. doi: 10.1039/d2lc00007e. Proteinase K improves the performance of the heat inactivation method in RT-qPCR determinations, Fig 2. 2015;99:963549. Epub 2023 Apr 21. We demonstrate that PK+HID improves the RT-qPCR performance in comparison to the heat-inactivation procedure. Notice that CT values determined for RP spans a smaller range. The mean values obtained for Epurified RNA were: 1.94 0.02 (N), 1.97 0.02 (RdRp), 1.93 0.03 (E) and 1.90 0.03 (RP). S4 Fig shows that the CT values for N and ORF1ab genes did not change during the first 20 h and increased at the longest incubation time suggesting that PK+HID samples can be conserved at 4C for up to 20 h. A common practice in many clinical labs involves freezing/thawing reagents several times. Lane M, Amersham LMW Calibration Kit For SDS Electrophoresis; lane 1, NHSSP expressed by pPink-HC-NHSSP clone; lane 2, del-NHSSP expressed by pPink-HC-del-NHSSP clone. As controls, we used heat-inactivated aliquots omitting the preincubation with PK at 55C (HID samples) and RNA samples obtained through a standard extraction protocol (purified RNA samples) from the same nasopharyngeal swabs. Self-quenched covalent fluorescent dye-nucleic acid conjugates as polymeric substrates for enzymatic nuclease assays. Ladha A Lane M, Amersham LMW Calibration Kit For SDS Electrophoresis; lane 1, NHSSP sample denatured by heating in Leammli electrophoresis loading buffer (with SDS); lane 2, NHSSP sample denatured by heating in Leammli electrophoresis loading buffer (with SDS) in the presence of 5mM PMSF. Additionally, the total number of residues where cleavage was detected had to be more than three, in order to diminish the error. A side effect, for example of chemical preparation of milk hydrolysates from whey as used in baby food, food substitutes in clinics or for sportsman and astronauts, is the appearance of bitter peptides. . We analyzed five positive samples processed by the standard PK+HID protocol or by HID but adding to the samples the same amount of PK buffer without PK (HID samples). Edman P, Begg G. A protein sequenator. It is known, that some proteins migrate on SDS-PAGE gels not precisely proportionally to their molecular weight, which causes even 1020% error in molecular weight estimations. This procedure can be automatized but commercial extraction robots are very expensive and may not be affordable for most clinical labs in low-income countries. ProSorb PVDF cartridge was from Applied Biosystems (Foster City, CA, USA). Its activity is increased in the presence of denaturants such as SDS (1%) and elevated temperature (50-60C). Accessibility Figure5 shows the cleavage sites used by NHSSP in the antigenic region of BLG. Proteinase K was from Merck-Millipore (Darmstadt, Germany). S1 Fig includes some examples of positive and negative results obtained combining PK+HID with LAMP. 9, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany, You can also search for this author in To determine precisely the NHSSP N- and C-termini and the molecular weight upon secretion and maturation, the purified protein was subjected to N- and C-terminal sequencing and peptide mass fingerprinting. The aa from each sequencing cycle were identified by their retention time and quantitated by comparison of peak heights with the standard chromatogram. Ipswich, MA 01938-2723 2002 Jan 1;300(1):22-6. doi: 10.1006/abio.2001.5442. A streamlined approach to rapidly detect SARS-CoV-2 infection, avoiding RNA extraction. Fax: 978-921-1350 CAS Ann Biol Clin (Paris). Epub 2020/06/20. Additionally, the internal control (IC) of two other PK+HID samples was not detected making mandatory repeating the assay; these invalid samples were not included in S3 Table. Article Chen X, Zhang P, Zhang Y, Fan S, Wei Y, Yang Z, Wang F, Peng X. Nutrients. However, a validation with a larger number of samples should be done to compare the sensitivities of both methods. The parameter values obtained from the fitting were: slope = 1.02 0.04 and intercept = 0.1 0.9 (N amplicon); slope = 1.02 0.04 and intercept = 0.8 0.9 (ORF1ab amplicon) and slope = 0.4 0.2 and intercept = 15 6 (RP amplicon). E. coli TOP10 competent cells were electroporated with the ligation mixture, incubated in SOC medium for 1h in 37C and plated on LA medium containing 100g/ml ampicillin, then followed incubation for 16h at 30C and 37C. V. L. thanks J. C. Reboreda and A. Quaglino for their support. (b) Ratio between the relative amplicon copy amounts detected using PK+HID or RNA purification for those nasopharyngeal swab samples that presented CT values >30 for any of the viral genes in purified RNA samples (Ndata = 10 and 12 for N and ORF1ab genes, respectively). 2023 May;115:22-32. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2022.12.003. Komu JG, Jamsransuren D, Matsuda S, Ogawa H, Takeda Y. RP plot also includes the data obtained in SARS-CoV-2 negative samples whereas N and ORF1ab plots include those data of negative samples that provided CT values above the positive-negative cut-off. The mean values obtained for Epurified RNA were: 1.98 0.03 (N), 2.02 0.06 (ORF1ab) and 1.94 0.03 (RP). From previous experiments, it was already known that NHSSP cleaves rather non-specifically than preferentially after aromatic aa residues as initially assumed. Huang et al. Laboratory management for SARS-CoV-2 detection: a user-friendly combination of the heat treatment approach and rt-Real-time PCR testing. There is a subtle difference in migration, only visible on very long electrophoresis runs. MASCOT Search Results of NHSSP-cleaved monoclonal mAb light chain. 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30457-6 . 2022 May 10;12(5):1186. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12051186. The purpose of substrate change was to verify that the obtained results are not significantly affected by the substrate type used. Large scale expression was conducted in recombinant Strain 1 (ade2), carrying either the pPink-HC-NHSSP or pPink-HC-del-NHSSP in a Sartorius Biostat C bioreactor in 6-8 L batches in BSM using fermentation conditions as outlined in the UM and 0.5% (v/v) methanol as AOX1 promoter inductor. We also evaluated 25 positive and 53 negative samples treated either by PK+HID or RNA extraction followed by detection with LAMP (S4 Table) and estimated that the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity measured when LAMP is combined with PK+HID in comparison to RNA extraction were 0.95, (0.92 + 0.06) and (0.96 + 0.03), respectively. Grant: PIP 2014-11220130100121CO to V. L. https://www.conicet.gov.ar/. Google Scholar. See this image and copyright information in PMC. 2007 Dec 30;406(1-2):8-12. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.05.006. This feature however is beneficial for industrial production, as it allows a significantly reduction in cultivation time and costs; (ii) The truncated NHSSP migrated as an apparently minimally shorter protein on SDS-PAGE gels. The N, E, RdRp viral regions and the human RP internal control were detected in multiplex reactions. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. KP290860.1. The method includes a treatment with proteinase K followed by heat inactivation (PK+HID method). A0A0B4VM82) [9, 10] was expressed as a His6-tagged protein after cDNA cloning and described as an alkaline S-8 protease based on bioinformatics analysis. This work provides an alternative chemistry for inactivating endogenous RNases for use in simple, low-cost point-of-care NATs for blood-borne pathogens. Please, notice that the PK solution should be added to the tubes before transferring the samples and not the other way around. We are currently testing the other main milk proteins like different -lactalbumins and different caseins. Sung H, Yong D, Ki CS, Kim JS, Seong MW, Lee H, et al. 5; Tables3, 4, 5, 6). The method combined with a multiplexing detection kit targeting N and ORF1ab viral genes showed a sensitivity of 0.99 and a specificity of 0.99 from the analysis of 106 positive and 106 negative clinical samples. The median of each measurement is represented with a line in the bars and the lengths of these bars represent the standard error. Explore high-quality enzymes; now available as individual products. 5, Tables3, 4, 5, 6, Additional files 15, 16, 17, 18). Explore targets and pathways in their scientific context, find and customize products to study them, analyze data and plan follow-up studies all in GeneGlobe. There were differences between the two variants: (i) expression cultures had different expression kinetics, namely the full length NHSSP clone kept accumulating the mature NHSSP protein over two times longer than the truncated NHSSP clone. NHSSP was eluted with 400ml (4 column volumes) of buffer B (25mM NaH2PO4/Na2HPO4 pH 6.6, 50mM NaCl) using the elution profile: 30%, 50%, 70%, 85%, and 100% buffer B. Fractions of 20ml were collected and analyzed on SDS-PAGE and Western blot for content of NHSSP protein. Clinical validation of innovative, low cost, kit-free, RNA processing protocol for RT-PCR based COVID-19 testing. The viral N1 gene and the human RP gene were amplified and detected by RT-qPCR. (a) CT values obtained from RT-qPCR analysis of the same samples prepared by the three different methods. In contrast, manual RNA-extraction is a quite cumbersome procedure that includes several washing and centrifuging steps at a Biosafety level 2 laboratory and relatively expensive extraction kits. Cells were seeded on a 24-well plate at 3.5 105 cells/ml one day prior to infection. The mass spectrometer was operated in the so-called data-dependent mode where after each global scan the five most intense peptide signals were chosen automatically for MS/MS-analysis. 2021 Mar;70(3):001301. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.001301. Proteinase K is an enzyme that is used to break down proteins. 1991;55:22518. 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