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ANALYST
Volume 145, Issue 1, Pages 286-294Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9an01856e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21775099, 21974082]
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Different from the classical antiparallel DNA double-stranded structure, parallel DNA duplexes possess unique structures and potential biological functions. In this work, we found that the parallel DNA homoduplex from the [TG(GA)(3)](n) sequence ([TG(GA)(3)](n)-dsDNA) can dramatically enhance the fluorescence of thioflavin T (ThT), and the fluorescence enhancement is proportional to the number (n) of TG(GA)(3) units in [TG(GA)(3)](n). Compared with the traditional G-quadruplex/ThT system, [TG(GA)(3)](n)/ThT showed more stable and stronger fluorescence emission. In addition, coupled with an isothermal exponential amplification reaction, [TG(GA)(3)](3)/ThT was used as a label-free fluorescent probe to detect microRNA, and the [TG(GA)(3)](3)/ThT probe exhibited higher sensitivity than the G-quadruplex/ThT probe. This work provides a new paradigm to design label-free fluorescent biosensing/imaging systems.
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