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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 6143-6151Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10035g
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- Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [SR/S3/CE/079/2012]
- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India [BT/RFL/RE-ENTRY/13/2013]
- Newton-Bhabha Fellowship [BT/IN/UK/DBT-BC/2015-16]
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Smartphone-based fluorescence detection is a promising avenue for biosensing that can aid on-site analysis. However, quantitative detection with fluorescence in the field has been limited due to challenges with robust excitation and calibration requirements. Here, we show that ratiometric analysis with Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between dye pairs on DNA aptamers can enable rapid and sensitive kanamycin detection. Since our detection scheme relies on ligand binding-induced changes in the aptamer tertiary structure, it is limited only by the kinetics of ligand binding to the aptamer. Our FRET-based kanamycin binding aptamer (KBA) sensor displays two linear ranges of 0.05-5 nM (detection limit of 0.18 nM) and 50900 nM of kanamycin. The aptamer displays high specificity even in the presence of the ` natural' background from milk. By immobilizing the aptamer in the flow cell, our KBA sensor design is also suitable for repeated kanamycin detection. Finally, we show that the ratiometric FRET-based analysis can be implemented on a cheap custom-built smartphone setup. This smartphone-based FRET aptamer scheme detects kanamycin in a linear range of 50-500 nM with a limit of detection (LOD) of 28 nM.
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