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TALANTA
Volume 236, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122866
Keywords
Signal enhancing; Aptasensor; Nanomaterial; Nucleic acid amplification; Small molecular contaminants
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Funding
- Tianjin Education Program [2019KJ082]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82074276]
- Projects of International Cooperation of Traditional Chinese Medicine [0610-2040NF020928]
- National S&T Major Project of China [2018ZX09201011]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFA0905300]
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This paper reviews the biological and ecological toxicities caused by small molecular contaminants in food and environment, as well as the development of aptasensors in recent years. It also discusses in detail the signal enhancing strategies based on nanomaterials and nucleic acid amplification, along with the challenges and future trends in the application of these strategies.
Small molecular contaminants (such as mycotoxins, antibiotics, pesticide residues, etc.) in food and environment have given rise to many biological and ecological toxicities, which has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. Meanwhile, due to the advantages of aptamers such as high specificity and stability, easy synthesis and modification, as well as low cost and immunogenicity, various aptasensors for the detection of small molecular contaminants have been flourishing. An aptasensor as a whole is composed of an aptamer-based target recognizer and a signal transducer, which are fields of concentrated research. In the practical detection applications, in order to achieve the quantitative detection of small molecular contaminants at low abundance in real samples, a large number of signal enhancing strategies have been utilized in the development of aptasensors. Recent years is a vintage period for efficient signal enhancing strategies of aptasensors by the aid of nanomaterials and nucleic acid amplification that are applied in the elements for target recognition and signal conversion. Therefore, this paper meticulously reviews the signal enhancing strategies based on nanomaterials (including the (quasi-)zero dimensional, one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanomaterials) and nucleic acid amplification (including enzyme-assisted nucleic acid amplification and enzyme-free nucleic acid amplification). Furthermore, the challenges and future trends of the abovementioned signal enhancing strategies for application are also discussed in order to inspire the practitioners in the research and development of aptasensors for small molecular contaminants.
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