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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 201, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.113973
Keywords
Circulating tumor cells; Dual-recognition-controlled electrochemical biosensor; Dimer-like rolling cycle amplification reaction; DNA nanostructure capture probes
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81772593]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [14380163]
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This study proposes a dual-recognition-controlled electrochemical biosensor for the accurate detection of specific CTCs. The biosensor combines aptamer hairpin probes and rolling cycle amplification to achieve sensitive quantification of target CTCs in complex whole blood matrixes. It demonstrates excellent selectivity and stability, showing great promise in clinical cancer diagnosis and personalized medicine.
Accurate and sensitive assay of specific circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is of importance for the diagnosis, treatment, and metastasis monitoring of cancer. Herein, we have proposed a dual-recognition-controlled elec-trochemical biosensor in this work for the detection of specific CTCs. To this sensor, two aptamer hairpin probes are designed to be able to separately bind to two adjacent proteins on the cell membrane to activate the asso-ciative toehold for strand displacement reaction, which will then trigger a dimer-like rolling cycle amplification reaction, and finally produce significantly amplified electrochemical signals for sensitive quantification of target CTCs. In our design, only the case that the two proteins are simultaneously expressed on the cell membrane can result in obvious signal responses, which may greatly improve the accuracy of CTCs analysis. The proposed biosensor can possess excellent selectivity to distinguish target cells from different cancer cells. Moreover, the combination of rolling cycle amplification and DNA nanostructure capture probes can effectively lower the detection limit to 3 cells mL(-1). Notably, our biosensor can be applied to the assay of the target CTCs in the complex whole blood matrixes, verifying its strong stability and anti-interference. Thus, the as-proposed dual-recognition-controlled electrochemical biosensor may exhibit great promise in clinical cancer diagnosis and personalized medicine.
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