Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages 2883-2894Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr09408b
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- Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development (Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea) [PJ012568]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2015R1A4A1041869]
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The potential copper binding sites in aptamers have been predicted on the basis of secondary structures and the binding affinity of aptamers with copper. Out of the 4 aptamers (Cu-A1 to Cu-A4) selected by SELEX and examined in the present study, the Cu-A2 aptamer shows the highest binding affinity to copper with the lowest KD value of 1.83 x 10(-11) M. In order to confirm the binding of copper to the proposed region, the binding affinity was experimentally validated using mutation and deletion analysis. We have confirmed that the high G-C pairing patterns and short stem-interval distance play important roles in copper binding. Aptamer specificity was also verified against diverse heavy metals. We also demonstrate an Aptamer Integrated Recovery Platform (AIRP) to recover copper from acidic mine drainage. AIRP can be easily regenerated at least 20 times without significant deterioration of the retrieval performance. To the best of our knowledge, AIRP is the first demonstration of copper specific recovery using aptamers. This can be scaled up and would have diverse applications in metal contaminated water treatment, recovery and as a potential biosensor for environmental analysis, monitoring, and risk assessment.
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