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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 92, Issue 24, Pages 16229-16235Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04085
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2016YFA0203102]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41877378]
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Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have become emerging environmental contaminants, and the effective on-site detection of ARGs is urgently needed. Herein, we constructed a hairpin-structured magnetic sensor for the analysis of a widespread ARG, tetA, using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The SERS sensor was assembled by immobilizing core-satellite structured Fe3O4@SiO2-Au with single-stranded DNA in a folded hairpin structure. The SERS sensor exhibited good sensitivity and specificity for the detection of laboratory-synthesized tetA ssDNA fragments. In addition, this SERS strategy is the first of its kind to be employed for monitoring environmental samples in the field, with a limit of detection reaching as low as 25 copies mu L-1. Univariate and multivariate linear regression equations verify the practicability of the SERS sensor for quantitative tetA determination, showing the prospect for an amplification-free alternative platform for sensitive and reliable on-site detection of ARGs in the environment.
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