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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 1038, Issue -, Pages 126-131Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.07.011
Keywords
Aptamer; Strand translocation; Thrombin; Catalytic hairpin assembly
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21675128]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2017A001]
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By coupling a new aptamer proximity recognition-dependent strand translocation strategy with catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) signal amplification, we have developed a simple and sensitive method for detecting thrombin in human serums. Simultaneous binding of two engineered aptamer probes to the thrombin target significantly increases the local concentrations of the two probes and facilitates the translocation of a ssDNA strand from one of the probes to the other through toehold mediated strand displacement. Such a strand translocation leads to the generation of a ssDNA tail in the aptamer sequence for subsequent initiation of the assembly of two fluorescently quenched hairpins into many DNA duplexes via CHA. The formation of the DNA duplexes thus results in significant fluorescence recovery for amplified detection of thrombin down to 8.3 pM. The developed method is highly selective to the thrombin target against other interference proteins due to the dual recognition mode, and can be employed to monitor thrombin in human serum samples. With the advantage of simplicity, sensitivity and selectivity, this method can be a universal non-enzymatic and nanomaterial-free amplified sensing platform for detecting different protein molecules. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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