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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 85, Issue 23, Pages 11518-11523Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac402781g
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- National Key Scientific Program of China [2011CB911000]
- NSFC [J1210040, 21325520, 20975034, 21177036, 21275044]
- Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of NSFC [21221003]
- National Key Natural Science Foundation of China [21135001]
- National Instrumentation Program [2011YQ030124]
- Ministry of Education of China [20100161110011]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation [11JJ1002]
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Aptamer-based fluorescence anisotropy (FA) assays have attracted great interest in recent years. However, a key factor that determines FA value is molar mass, thus limiting the utility of this assay for the detection of small molecules. To solve this problem, streptavidin, as a molar mass amplifier, was used in a hybridization chain reaction (HCR) to construct a target-triggered cyclic assembly of DNA protein hybrid nanowires for highly sensitive detection of small molecules by fluorescence anisotropy. In this assay, one blocking DNA strand is released by target aptamer recognition. The DNA then serves as an initiator to trigger enzyme-free autonomous cross-opening of hairpin probes via HCR to form a DNA nanowire for further assembly of streptavidin. Using adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as the small molecule target, this novel dual-amplified, aptamer-based FA assay affords high sensitivity with a detection limit of 100 nM. This limit of detection (LOD) is much lower than that of the disassembly approach without HCR amplification or the assembly strategy without streptavidin. In contrast to the previous turn-off disassembly approaches based on nonspecific interactions between the aptamer probe and amplification moieties, the proposed aptamer-based FA assay method exhibits a turn-on response to ATP, which can increase sensing reliability and reduce the risk of false hits. Moreover, because of its resistance to environmental interferences, this FA assay has been successfully applied for direct detection of 0.5 mu M ATP in complex biological samples, including cell media, human urine, and human serum, demonstrating its practicality in real complex biological systems.
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