Portable Aptasensor of Aflatoxin B1 in Bread Based on a Personal Glucose Meter and DNA Walking Machine.

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Key Laboratory of Chem-Biosensing, Anhui Province; Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Anhui Province; College of Chemistry and Materials Science , Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000 , P. R. China.

Published: July 2018

Despite some recent developments on the portable on-site sensor of Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), the complex and expensive preparation of recognition elements have still limited their wide applications. In this paper, using the fast, low-cost, and stable recognition of aptamer DNA-AFB1, a portable aptasensor was constructed for the on-site detection of AFB1 in food matrixes, with the readout of personal glucose meter (PGM) and DNA walking machine for signal probe separation. In such an assay protocol, the target could trigger the DNA walker to autonomously move on the electrode surface, propelled by unidirectional Pb-specific DNAzyme digestion, which could amplify the signal and separate the signal probe as well for further quantification by the PGM. Under optimized conditions, the increase of PGM signal was relative with the concentration of AFB1 ranging from 0.02 to 10 nM and the low limit of detection (LOD) was 10 pM (S/N = 3). With the features of portability, and cheapness, the presented user-friendly method could be extended to various other analytes for wide point-of-care applications.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.8b00304DOI Listing

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