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A label-free G-quadruplex-based mercury detection assay employing the exonuclease III-mediated cleavage of T-Hg2+-T mismatched DNA

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/16/6/065004

Keywords

iridium(III); exonuclease III; G-quadruplex; mercury(II) ion

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  1. Hong Kong Baptist University [FRG2/14-15/004]
  2. Health and Medical Research Fund [HMRF/13121482, HMRF/14130522]
  3. Research Grants Council [HKBU/201811, HKBU/204612, HKBU/201913]
  4. French National Research Agency/Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme [A-HKBU201/12]
  5. State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis Research Grant [SKLP-14-15-P001]
  6. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21575121]
  7. Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation [2015A030313816]
  8. Hong Kong Baptist University Century Club Sponsorship Scheme
  9. Interdisciplinary Research Matching Scheme [RC-IRMS/14-15/06]
  10. State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry
  11. Science and Technology Development Fund, Macao SAR [098/2014/A2, 007/2014/AMJ]
  12. University of Macau [MYRG091(Y3-L2)-ICMS-12-LCH, MYRG2015-00137-ICMS-QRCM, MRG023/LCH/2013/ICMS]

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We report herein the use of an exonuclease III and G-quadruplex probe to construct a G-quadruplex-based luminescence detection platform for Hg2+. Unlike common DNA-based Hg2+ detection methods, when using the dsDNA probe to monitor the hairpin formation, the intercalation of the dsDNA probe may be influenced by the distortion of dsDNA. This 'mix-and-detect' methodology utilized the G-quadruplex probe as the signal transducer and is simple, rapid, convenient to use and can detect down to 20 nM of Hg2+.

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