Herein, a long period liner DNA tandem (Lr-DNT) was intelligently designed as DNA track for quadruped DNA walker (q-walker) to run in an orderly and efficient manner, which could be applied to construct an electrochemical biosensor for rapid and ultrasensitive detection of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21). Impressively, benefiting from the orderliness and equidistance of Lr-DNT, the q-walker could be endowed with a high controllability, directionality as well as a quite short reaction time down to 20 min compared with those of traditional DNA walkers walked on the stochastic tracks. Once the target miRNA-21 interacted with the locked q-walker, the q-walker could be activated to expeditiously cleave Lr-DNT for releasing amounts of signal probes ferrocene (Fc) with the assistance of the Nt.BbvCI enzyme. This way, the developed q-walker could not only readily overcome the problem of low reaction efficiency but also address the drawback of time consumption in a previous strategy. As a proof of concept, the prepared biosensor could accomplish sensitive detection of target miRNA-21 with a detection limit down to 31 aM. As a result, this tactic gave impetus to design high-performance sensing platform with ultimate application in clinical sample analysis and nucleic acid based cancer diagnostics.
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Herein, a long period liner DNA tandem (Lr-DNT) was intelligently designed as DNA track for quadruped DNA walker (q-walker) to run in an orderly and efficient manner, which could be applied to construct an electrochemical biosensor for rapid and ultrasensitive detection of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21). Impressively, benefiting from the orderliness and equidistance of Lr-DNT, the q-walker could be endowed with a high controllability, directionality as well as a quite short reaction time down to 20 min compared with those of traditional DNA walkers walked on the stochastic tracks. Once the target miRNA-21 interacted with the locked q-walker, the q-walker could be activated to expeditiously cleave Lr-DNT for releasing amounts of signal probes ferrocene (Fc) with the assistance of the Nt.
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Unit of Human Anatomy and Embryology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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August 2008
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
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School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Qld 4072, Australia.
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