Quencher-free molecular beacon: Enhancement of the signal-to-background ratio with graphene oxide.

Bioorg Med Chem Lett

Laboratory for Modified Nucleic Acid Systems, Department of Chemistry, BK School of Molecular Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, South Korea.

Published: January 2011

We report the highly improved version of quencher-free molecular beacon (QF-MB) system by using graphene oxide (GO) as an external quencher. This QF-MB/GO system provided a higher S/B ratio (31.0) relative to that (2.2) of the same system in the absence of GO, while retaining a high selectivity for fully matched over single-base-mismatched targets.

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