Low-potential anodic electrochemiluminescence of terbium metal-organic frameworks for selective microRNA-155 detection.

Biosens Bioelectron

State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China. Electronic address:

Published: November 2024

High excitation potential is recognized as a harmful factor for the biological activity of biomacromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, in electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensing. Developing low-potential ECL luminophores is vital for improving ECL accuracy in actual sample sensing. In this work, based on porous metal-organic framework (MOF) structure with multiple active sites and energy transfer between the excited ligands and Ln nodes, we designed a series of Ln-MOFs and observed ECL emission at low potential, providing a novel method to realize low-potential ECL. The MOF nanoemitters were prepared using 1,3,5-tri (4-carboxyphenyl)benzene ligand and several lanthanide ions as nodes through mild hydrothermal reaction. Interestingly, strong ECL emission at +0.75 V of peak potential was observed in the ECL-potential curve of Tb-based MOF using 2,2',2″-nitrilotriethanol as coreactant, which was beneficial for reducing background interference in biosensing, and this ECL emission was attributed to the energy transfer between Tb and excited ligand. This low-potential ECL was then applied to construct an ECL biosensor with newly developed Cas12a-based method for selective detection of microRNA-155 without the help of strand displacement or reverse transcription. For this ECL system, the limit of detection was 0.78 nM, and the overall detection time was 2.5 h. The Ln-MOF nanoemitter provides a robust ECL platform to selectively detect various targets by integrating new bio-related techniques.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2024.116675DOI Listing

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