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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom3030563
Keywords
bacterial detection; DNAzyme; fluorescence; biosensor; Escherichia coli
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- Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network
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Bacterial detection plays an important role in protecting public health and safety, and thus, substantial research efforts have been directed at developing bacterial sensing methods that are sensitive, specific, inexpensive, and easy to use. We have recently reported a novel mix-and-read assay where a fluorogenic DNAzyme probe was used to detect model bacterium E. coli. In this work, we carried out a series of optimization experiments in order to improve the performance of this assay. The optimized assay can achieve a detection limit of 1000 colony-forming units (CFU) without a culturing step and is able to detect 1 CFU following as short as 4 h of bacterial culturing in a growth medium. Overall, our effort has led to the development of a highly sensitive and easy-to-use fluorescent bacterial detection assay that employs a catalytic DNA.
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