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    Lots and Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification-Based Biosensing Using Cloud-Enabled Features
    (IEEE, 2022) Bayındır, Taha; Değirmenci, Mehmet; Ergenç, Ali Fuat; Elitaş, Meltem
    Internet-of-Things technology (IoTs) have accelerated biosensor applications in all fields. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)-based biosensor technologies in conjunction with smartphone detection have been adequate to cover the demands of mobile diagnostics. The ease of use, affordability, portability, high sensitivity, flexibility, and specificity demands of point-of-care detection can be achieved by low-cost electronic components, 3-dimensional printing technologies, capturing images of calorimetrically detected readouts made our system a promising approach for real-time point-of-detection in the field. In this study, we implemented a cloud service to our LAMP-based biosensor. We previously performed bacteria detection using colony-based LAMP device and now distributed the optical readouts of the assay using smartphones. We transferred the obtained image and results of the assays through cloud. Our user-friendly interface simplifies the data processing, it directly digitized the readouts and eliminates the need of data interpretation.
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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Surface Microbiota and Associated Staphylococci of Houseflies (musca Domestica) Collected From Different Environmental Sources
    (Elsevier, 2022) Sudağıdan, Mert; Özalp, Veli Cengiz; Can, Özge; Eligül, Hakan; Yurt, Mediha Nur Zafer; Tasbasi, Behiye Busra; Acar, Elif Esma; Kavruk, Murat; Koçak, Oner
    Houseflies (Musca domestica) are important mechanical vectors for the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms. In this study, 129 houseflies (69 males and 60 females) were collected from 10 different environmental sources and a laboratory population was used. The surface microbiota of houseflies was identified by Next-Generation Sequencing. Staphylococci from the surfaces of houseflies were selectively isolated and their virulence genes, antibiotic susceptibilities, biofilm formation, and clonal relatedness were determined. Metagenomic analysis results demonstrated that Staphylococcus, Bacillus, and Enterococcus were mostly present on the surface of houseflies at the genus level. Additionally, the isolated 32 staphylococcal strains were identified as Staphylococcus sciuri (n = 11), S. saprophyticus (n = 9), S. arlettae (n = 6), S. xylosus (n = 4), S. epidermidis (n = 1) and S. gallinarum (n = 1). tetK, tetM, tetL, ermC, msrAB, and aad6 genes were found to carry by some of the staphylococcal strains. The strains were mostly resistant to oxacillin, penicillin, and erythromycin and three strains were multi-drug resistant. There was a statistical difference between housefly collection places and antibiotic resistance of isolated staphylococci to penicillin G, gentamicin, and erythromycin (p < 0.05). Biofilm test showed that 17 strains were strong biofilm formers, and it plays important role in the transmission of these bacteria on the surface of houseflies. Staphylococcal strains showed extracellular proteolytic and lipolytic activity in 31 and 12 strains, respectively. Closely related species were found in PFGE analysis from different environmental sources. By this study, surface microbiota and carriage of pathogenic staphylococci on the surfaces of houseflies and their virulence properties were elucidated.
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    Assessment of Cell Cycle and Viability of Magnetic Levitation Assembled Cellular Structures
    (IEEE, 2020) Anıl İnevi, Müge; Ünal, Yağmur Ceren; Yaman, Sena; Tekin, H. Cumhur; Meşe, Gülistan; Meşe, Gülistan
    Label-free magnetic levitation is one of the most recent Earth-based in vitro techniques that simulate the microgravity. This technique offers a great opportunity to biofabricate scaffold-free 3-dimensional (3D) structures and to study the effects of microgravity on these structures. In this study, self-assembled 3D living structures were fabricated in a paramagnetic medium by magnetic levitation technique and effects of the technique on cellular health was assessed. This magnetic force-assisted assembly system applied here offers broad applications in several fields, such as space biotechnology and bottom-up tissue engineering.
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    Citation - WoS: 12
    Citation - Scopus: 17
    Wearable Respiratory Rate Sensor Technology for Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea
    (IEEE, 2020) Cinel, Göktürk; Tarım, Ergün Alperay; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Sleep apnea is a disease that occurs during sleep, which affects the daily life of patients due to the obstruction of the upper respiratory tract and decreases oxygen level in blood and it may even lead to patient death in the later stage. Monitoring the patients regularly has absolute importance to prevent patient disorders caused by sleep apnea. Wearable sensor technologies and patient tracking systems provide diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients, and procure better health services in medical fields. In addition to decreasing the workload of health institutions, remote patient monitoring systems can serve continuous monitoring and determine variable symptoms of the patients. In this paper, we propose a patient monitoring system, which will be used for diagnosis and monitoring of sleep apnea by tracking the respiratory rate of patients with wearable sensor technology. The respiratory rate is detected using either an accelerometer sensor to be placed on the patients' abdomen or a temperature sensor to be placed on their noses. The proposed system offers an increase in the versatility of patient monitoring systems and offers an alternative new technology in sleep apnea diagnosis.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Portatif ve Düşük Maliyetli Merceksiz Holografik Mikroskop Platformu ile Nanoparçacık Tespiti
    (IEEE, 2020) Delikoyun, Kerem; Keçili, Seren; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    In the biological and medical science, detection of biomolecule at very low concentration (<100 pg/mL) is of great importance and it is extensively used in the diagnosis of diseases, drug response monitoring and cancer research. For biomolecule detection tests, captured biomolecules generate signals (fluorescence, color, etc.), which are analyzed by trained personnel in bulky, high cost and fragile devices. However, for clinical applications, the access to these tests is very difficult at resource-limited settings. Lensless holographic microscopy provides high resolution imaging of samples without the need of expensive and fragile optical elements (mirror, lens, filter, etc.) used in traditional imaging technologies. While this technology offers a robust, portable and low-cost design, it enables fully automated processing of the sample image with digital processing schemes and this can also help eliminate user error. In this study, lensless holographic microscopy platform, which can be used in surface coverage assays for the detection of biomolecules, is proposed. It has been shown that nanoparticles (700-1200 nm) used as labels in surface coverage assays for the detection of biomolecules could be sensed on the platform. Therefore, it is anticipated that biomolecules detection could be realized rapidly and sensitively with this easy-to-use and low-cost imaging platform at the location where the high-level health institutions are not available and even at point-of-care settings.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    A Vacuum-Integrated Centrifugal Microfluidic Chip for Density-Based Separation of Microparticles
    (IEEE, 2021) Öksüz, Cemre; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Here we present a new vacuum-integrated centrifugal microfluidic chip for the density-based separation of microparticles. A sample was loaded in a fluidic channel using the gas permeability feature of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane between fluidic and control channels. Vacutun was applied from control channel to drive a density media and then the sample containing microparticles in the dead-end fluidic channel. Afterwards, the chip was disconnected from the vacuum and it was centrifugated. If the sample contains microparticles denser than the density media, the microparticles are sedimented at the end of the microfluidic channel so that these particles can be separated from remaining the lower density particles. With this approach, we separated 1.09 g/mL microparticles with 82,6% efficiency and 99% purity from 1.02 g/mL microparticles. Separated particles in the microfluidic chip can also be inspected under a microscope for further analysis. This simple approach offers high efficient density-based separation of microparticles with close densities.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Distinguishing Between Microrna Targets From Diverse Species Using Sequence Motifs and K-Mers
    (SCITEPRESS, 2017) Yousef, Malik; Khalifa, Waleed; Acar, İlhan Erkin; Allmer, Jens
    A disease phenotype is often due to dysregulation of gene expression. Post-translational regulation of protein abundance by microRNAs (miRNAs) is, therefore, of high importance in, for example, cancer studies. MicroRNAs provide a complementary sequence to their target messenger RNA (mRNA) as part of a complex molecular machinery. Known miRNAs and targets are listed in miRTarBase for a variety of organisms. The experimental detection of such pairs is convoluted and, therefore, their computational detection is desired which is complicated by missing negative data. For machine learning, many features for parameterization of the miRNA targets are available and k-mers and sequence motifs have previously been used. Unrelated organisms like intracellular pathogens and their hosts may communicate via miRNAs and, therefore, we investigated whether miRNA targets from one species can be differentiated from miRNA targets of another. To achieve this end, we employed target information of one species as positive and the other as negative training and testing data. Models of species with higher evolutionary distance generally achieved better results of up to 97% average accuracy (mouse versus Caenorhabditis elegans) while more closely related species did not lead to successful models (human versus mouse; 60%). In the future, when more targeting data becomes available, models can be established which will be able to more precisely determine miRNA targets in hostpathogen systems using this approach.
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    Genetic Determinants of Musculoskeletal Adaptations To Unloading and Reloading
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Özçivici, Engin; Judex, Stefan
    Lack of weight bearing is one of the most critical limitations for long term health of bone tissue in space missions. In this study, we performed a series of Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) analysis of musculoskeletal traits to define genomic modulators adaptations to mechanical unloading and subsequent reloading using a genetically heterogeneous (F2 BALBxC3H) female mouse population. The identified regions on genome contain genes that regulate musculoskeletal adaptations to weightlessness and further studies may help to categorize individuals that are at risk for greater tissue loss during weightlessness and/or low tissue recovery during reambulation.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Lensless Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy for Space Biotechnology Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Delikoyun, Kerem; Çine, Ersin; Anıl İnevi, Müge; Özuysal, Mustafa; Özçivici, Engin; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Biomechanical changes at cellular level can dramatically affect living organisms in both aviation and space applications. Weightlessness induces morphological alteration of cells, which leads to tissue loss. Therefore, scientists have been studying the effect of weightlessness using cell culture based biological experiments using conventional microscopes. However, strict requirements regarding cost, weight and functionality limit the use of conventional microscopes in space environment. Lensless digital in-line holographic microscopy enables to use low-weight, low-cost and robust elements, such as a light emitting diode (LED), an aperture and an imaging sensor, instead of bulky, expensive and fragile optical elements, such as lenses, mirrors and filters. This technology offers a high field of view compared to conventional microscopes without affecting the resolution and it is also suitable for remote sensing applications with automated imaging capabilities. Here, we present a portable digital in-line holographic microscopy platform that allows to visualize cells and to analyze their viability in a microfluidic chip. The platform offers microscopic imaging with 1.55 mu m spatial resolution, 21.7 mm(2) field of view and image coloring capability. This platform could potentially play an important role in space biotechnology applications by enabling low-cost, high-resolution and portable monitoring of cells.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 7
    Cell Separation With Hybrid Magnetic Levitation-Based Lensless Holographic Microscopy Platform
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Delikoyun, Kerem; Yaman, Sena; Anıl İnevi, Müge; Özçivici, Engin; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur
    Separation of target cells in a heterogeneous solution is of great importance for clinical studies especially for immunology and oncology. Separated cells can be used for diagnostic applications ranging from whole blood counting to isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTC) for personalized medicine. Recent separation technologies rely on labelling and identifying target cells with variety of labelling principle such as fluorescence or magnetic tags. However, they require labor-intensive processes, long analysis time, and expensive chemical reagents and instrumentation. Hence, their usage is limited to well-equipped centralized laboratories. There is a need for a rapid, sensitive, low-cost and automated cell separation technology to disseminate usage of this technology even in rural areas. Magnetic levitation is a powerful cell separation method, which distinguishes cells based on their levitation heights depending on cell density. However, magnetic levitation-based separation technologies require traditional, bulky and expensive microscopes for analysis. Lensless digital inline holographic microscopy (LDIHM) systems are composed of a simple illumination system containing an LED, a pinhole, and an imaging sensor for high-resolution microscopic imaging, which eliminates needs of highly fragile and expensive optics as in traditional microscopy. Here, we introduced a novel hybrid and portable cell separation platform, where magnetic levitation technology is integrated with LDIHM system for automated analysis of cell levitation heights. Using this platform, three different cell lines are successfully separated. Live and dead cells having distinguished levitation heights can be also identified in the platform.