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Wang QL, Meng LC, Zhao Z, Du JF, Li P, Jiang Y, Li HJ. Ultrasensitive upconverting nanoprobes for in situ imaging of drug-induced liver injury using miR-122 as the biomarker. Talanta 2024; 274:126108. [PMID: 38640602 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.126108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2023] [Revised: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
Abstract
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a frequent adverse drug reaction. The current clinical diagnostic methods are inadequate for accurate and early detection of DILI due to the lack of effective diagnostic biomarkers. Hepatocyte-specific miR-122 is released from injured hepatocytes promptly and its efflux is significantly correlated with the progression of DILI. Therefore, achieving precise in situ detection of miR-122 with high sensitivity is vital for early visualization of DILI. Herein, a new nanoprobe, consisting of miR-122 aptamer, upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and Prussian blue nanoparticles (PBNPs) was introduced for the early and sensitive detection of DILI in situ. As the nanoprobes reached in the liver, miR-122 aptamer-based entropy-driven strand displacement (ESDR) signal amplification reaction was triggered and luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET) between UCNPs and PBNPs was responded to achieve the high-fidelity detection of DILI. A negative correlation was observed between the intensity of upconversion luminescence (UCL) and the concentration of miR-122. UCL imaging conducted both in vivo and ex vivo indicated that a reduction in miR-122 concentration led to an increase in UCL intensity, revealing a precise state of DILI. The detection technique demonstrated a positive correlation between signal intensity and severity, offering a more straightforward and intuitive method of visualizing DILI.
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- Qiao-Lei Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- Institute of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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Zhou S, Sun H, Dong J, Lu P, Deng L, Liu Y, Yang M, Huo D, Hou C. Highly sensitive and facile microRNA detection based on target triggered exponential rolling-circle amplification coupling with CRISPR/Cas12a. Anal Chim Acta 2023; 1265:341278. [PMID: 37230569 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2023.341278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression and have been implicated in many diseases. Herein, we develop a target triggered exponential rolling-circle amplification coupling with CRISPR/Cas12a (T-ERCA/Cas12a) system, which can achieve the ultrasensitive detection with simple operation and no annealing procedure. In this assay, T-ERCA combines the exponential amplification with rolling-circle amplification by introducing a dumb-bell probe with two enzyme recognition sites. miRNA-155 targets are activators that trigger exponential rolling circle amplification to produce large amounts of ssDNA, which is then recognized by CRISPR/Cas12a for further amplification. Compared with single EXPAR or RCA combined with CRISPR/Cas12a, this assay shows higher amplification efficiency. Therefore, benefiting from the excellent amplification effect of T-ERCA and the high recognition specificity of CRISPR/Cas12a, the proposed strategy shows a wide detection range from 1 fM to 5 nM with a LOD (limit of detection) down to 0.31 fM. Moreover, it shows good application ability for assessing miRNA levels in different cells, indicating that the T-ERCA/Cas12a may provide a new guidance for molecular diagnosis and clinical practical application.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shiying Zhou
- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China
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- Chongqing University Three Gorges Hospital, Chongqing, 404000, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China; Chongqing Key Laboratory of Bio-perception & Intelligent Information Processing, School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, PR China; National Facility for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, PR China.
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A novel ratiometric electrochemical aptasensor for highly sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigen. Anal Biochem 2022; 659:114957. [PMID: 36265690 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2022.114957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A novel ratiometric electrochemical aptasensor was proposed for carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) detection based on exonuclease III (Exo III)-assisted recycling and rolling circle amplification (RCA) strategies. A thiolated ferrocene-labeled hairpin probe 2 (Fc-HP2) was fixed on the gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)-modified gold electrode (AuE) surface through Au-S bonds. The presence of CEA led to the release of trigger, which hybridized with the 3'-protruding of hairpin probe 1 (HP1) and triggered the Exo III cleavage reaction, accompanied by the releasing of trigger and generation of new DNA fragment which was used for the successive hybridization with Fc-HP2. After the Exo III cleavage process, the remaining Fc-HP2 fragments hybridized as primers with the RCA template to initiate the RCA process, and long single-stranded polynucleotides were produced for methylene blue (MB) binding. Such changes resulted in the signal of Fc (IFc) decreased and that of MB (IMB) increased, achieving a linear relationship between IMB/IFc and logarithm of CEA concentrations ranging from 1.0 pg mL-1 to 100.0 ng mL-1 with a detection limit of 0.59 pg mL-1. Additionally, the developed aptasensor had been successfully applied to detect CEA in human serum samples. Therefore, the proposed strategy might provide a new platform for clinical detections of CEA.
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Research progress on ratiometric electrochemical sensing of mycotoxins. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.117115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Negahdary M, Angnes L. Application of electrochemical biosensors for the detection of microRNAs (miRNAs) related to cancer. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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