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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 598, Issue 2, Pages 242-248Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2007.07.050
Keywords
thrombin; electrogenerated chemiluminescence; Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)-doped silica nanoparticles; aptasensor; target protein-induced strand displacement
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A sensitive and selective aptasensor using tri(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II)-doped silica nanoparticles (Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)-doped SNPs) as DNA tags for detection of thrombin is developed based on the target protein-induced strand displacement of the DNA probe. For the proposed aptasensor, the aptamer was assembled on the surface of the Au electrode through Au-S binding. The hybridization event between the DNA probe labeled by the Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)-doped SNPs and the aptamer was evaluated by electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) measurements. Then, the DNA probe was displaced by thrombin and the binding event between the thrombin and the aptamer was monitored by ECL measurements again. The difference of ECL intensity (Delta I-ECL) of the two events could be used to quantify the thrombin. Other proteins, such as bovine serum albumin and bovine hemoglobin, had almost negligible Delta I-ECL. Under the optimal conditions, the Delta I-ECL was linearly related to the concentration of the thrombin in the range of 10 fM to 10 pM and the detection limit was down to 1.0 fM since SNPs containing a large number of Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) molecules were labeled on the DNA probe. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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