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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 86, Issue 3, Pages 1816-1821Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac403762s
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- University of Waterloo
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- NSERC of Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Metal-ion detection and speciation analysis is crucial for environmental monitoring. Despite the importance of lanthanides, few sensors are available for their detection. DNAzymes have been previously used to detect divalent metals, while no analytical work was carried out for trivalent and tetravalent ions. Herein, in vitro selection was performed using a Ce4+ salt as the target metal, and a new DNAzyme (named Ce13) with a bulged hairpin structure was isolated and characterized. Interestingly, Ce13 has almost no activity with Ce4+ but is highly active with all trivalent lanthanides and Y3+, serving as a general probe for rare earth metals (omitting Sc). A DNAzyme beacon was engineered detecting down to 1.7 nM Ce3+ (240 parts per trillion), and other lanthanides showed similar sensitivity. The feasibility of metal speciation analysis was demonstrated by measuring the reduction of Ce4+ to Ce3+.
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