Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 4361-4370Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn100635j
Keywords
nanoparticles; aptamers; metabolite monitoring; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; nanosensor; PEBBLE; molecular beacon
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- Danish Research Council for Technology and Production [274-07-0172]
- Danish Natural Science Research Council [09-065026]
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We describe a new type of aptamer-based optical nanosensor which uses the embedding of target responsive oligonucleotides in porous polyacrylamide nanoparticles to eliminate nuclease instability. The latter is a common problem in the use of aptamer sensors in biological environments. These aptamers embedded in nanoparticles (AptaNPs) are proposed as a tool in real-time metabolite measurements in living cells. The AptaNPs comprise 30 nm polyacrylamide nanoparticles, prepared by inverse microemulsion polymerization, which contain water-soluble aptamer switch probes (ASPs) trapped in the porous matrix of the nanoparticles. The matrix acts as a molecular fence allowing rapid diffusion of small metabolites into the particles to interact with the aptamer molecules, but at the same time it retains the larger aptamer molecules inside the nanoparticles providing protection against intracellular degradation. We tested the ability of the AptaNPs to measure the adenine-nucleotide content in yeast cells. Our results successfully demonstrate the potential for monitoring any metabolite of interest in living cells by selecting specific aptamers and embedding them in nanoparticles.
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