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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 85, Issue 17, Pages 8061-8064Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac4018346
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- Nanosense Inc.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Small RNA (19-23 nucleotides) molecules play an important role in gene regulation, embryonic differentiation, hematopoiesis, and a variety of cancers. Here, we present an ultrasensitive, extremely specific, label-free, and rapid electronic detection of microRNAs (miRNAs) using a carbon nanotubes field-effect transistor functionalized with the Carnation Italian ringspot virus p19 protein biosensor. miRNA-122a was chosen as the target, which was first hybridized to a probe molecule. The probe-miRNA duplex was then quantified by measuring the change in resistance of biosensor resulting from its binding to p19, which selects 21-23 bp RNA duplexes in a size-dependent but sequence-independent manner. The biosensor displayed a wide dynamic range up to 10(-14) M and was able to detect as low as 1 aM miRNA in the presence of a million-fold excess of total RNA, paving the way for simple, point-of-care, low-cost early detection of miRNA as a biomarker in diagnosis of many diseases, including cancer.
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