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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 225-230Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac1028787
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- National Science Council of Taiwan [NSC 98-2113M-002-011-MY3]
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We have developed a fluorescence approach for the highly selective and sensitive detection of Pb2+ ions using AGRO100, a G-quadruplex DNAzyme. The sensing strategy is based on Pb2+ ions inducing increased DNAzyme activity of AGRO100 in the presence of hemin, which acts as a cofactor to catalyze H(2)O(2-)mediated oxidation of Amp lex Ultra Red (AUR). A test of eight aptamers of various sequences for the detection of Pb2+ ions revealed that AGRO100 performed the best in terms of sensitivity. The AGRO100-AUR probe exhibited high selectivity (>100-fold) toward Pb2+ ions over other tested metal ions. The fluorescence intensity (excitation/emission maxima, ca. 561/592 nm) of the AUR product was proportional to the concentration of Pb2+ ions over the range 0-1000 nM, with a linear correlation (R-2 = 0.98). For 5 mM Tris acetate (pH 7.4) solutions in the presence and absence of 100 mM NaCl, the AGRO100-AUR probe provided limits of detection (signal-to-noise ratio = 3) for Pb2+ ions of 1.0 and 0.4 nM, respectively. We validated the practicality of the use of the AGRO100-AUR probe for the determination of the concentrations of Pb2+ ions in soil samples. This approach allows the determination of the concentrations of Pb2+ ions with simplicity, selectivity, and sensitivity.
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