4.8 Article

A catalytic and dual recycling amplification ATP sensor based on target driven allosteric structure switching of aptamer beacons

Journal

BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages 1-5

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ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.01.017

Keywords

ATP detection; Dual amplified strategy; Catalytic hairpin assembly; Human serum

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21675128]
  2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2017A001]

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Abnormal concentrations of ATP are associated with many diseases and cancers, and quantitative detection of ATP is thus of great importance for disease diagnosis and prognosis. In the present work, we report a new dual recycling amplification sensor integrated with catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) to achieve high sensitivity for fluorescent detection of ATP. The association of the target ATP with the aptamer beacons causes the allosteric structure switching of the aptamer beacons to expose the toehold regions, which hybridize with and unfold the fluorescently quenched hairpin signal probes (HP1) to recycle the target ATP and to trigger CHA between HP1 and the secondary hairpin probes (HP2) to form HP1/HP2 duplexes. Due to the recycling amplification, the presence of ATP leads to the formation of many HP1/HP2 duplexes, generating dramatically amplified fluorescent signals for sensitive detection of ATP. Under optimal experimental conditions, our sensor linearly responds to ATP in the range from 25 to 600 nM with a calculated detection limit of 8.2 nM. Furthermore, the sensor shows a high selectivity and can also be used to detect ATP in human serums to realize its application for real samples. With the distinct advantage of significant signal amplification without the involvement of any nanomaterial and enzyme, the developed sensor thus holds great potential for simple and sensitive detection of different small molecules and proteins.

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