Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute-mediated dual recognition enables the detection of trace single-nucleotide-mutated fungicide-resistant fungal pathogens†
Abstract
Detection of low-abundance mutations for the early discovery of fungicide-resistant fungal pathogens is highly demanded, but remains challenging. Herein, we developed a dual-recognition strategy, termed PARPA, involving Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute (pfAgo)-mediated elimination of wild-type fungal genes and CRISPR/Cas12a-based amplicon recognition. This assay can detect fungicide-resistant Puccinia striiformis at relative abundances as low as 0.05% and has potential for achieving early screening of fungicide-resistant fungal pathogens.
- This article is part of the themed collection: CRISPR for Biosensing