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Chiorcea-Paquim AM. Advances in Electrochemical Biosensor Technologies for the Detection of Nucleic Acid Breast Cancer Biomarkers. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:4128. [PMID: 37112468 PMCID: PMC10145521 DOI: 10.3390/s23084128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide; therefore, there is an increased need for the discovery, development, optimization, and quantification of diagnostic biomarkers that can improve the disease diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic outcome. Circulating cell-free nucleic acids biomarkers such as microRNAs (miRNAs) and breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) allow the characterization of the genetic features and screening breast cancer patients. Electrochemical biosensors offer excellent platforms for the detection of breast cancer biomarkers due to their high sensitivity and selectivity, low cost, use of small analyte volumes, and easy miniaturization. In this context, this article provides an exhaustive review concerning the electrochemical methods of characterization and quantification of different miRNAs and BRCA1 breast cancer biomarkers using electrochemical DNA biosensors based on the detection of hybridization events between a DNA or peptide nucleic acid probe and the target nucleic acid sequence. The fabrication approaches, the biosensors architectures, the signal amplification strategies, the detection techniques, and the key performance parameters, such as the linearity range and the limit of detection, were discussed.
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- Ana-Maria Chiorcea-Paquim
- University of Coimbra, CEMMPRE, ARISE, Department of Chemistry, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal;
- Instituto Pedro Nunes, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal
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Chiorcea-Paquim AM, Oliveira-Brett AM. Electrochemistry of chemotherapeutic alkylating agents and their interaction with DNA. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 222:115036. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.115036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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DNA Electrochemical Biosensors for In Situ Probing of Pharmaceutical Drug Oxidative DNA Damage. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21041125. [PMID: 33562790 PMCID: PMC7915242 DOI: 10.3390/s21041125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) electrochemical biosensors are devices that incorporate immobilized DNA as a molecular recognition element on the electrode surface, and enable probing in situ the oxidative DNA damage. A wide range of DNA electrochemical biosensor analytical and biotechnological applications in pharmacology are foreseen, due to their ability to determine in situ and in real-time the DNA interaction mechanisms with pharmaceutical drugs, as well as with their degradation products, redox reaction products, and metabolites, and due to their capacity to achieve quantitative electroanalytical evaluation of the drugs, with high sensitivity, short time of analysis, and low cost. This review presents the design and applications of label-free DNA electrochemical biosensors that use DNA direct electrochemical oxidation to detect oxidative DNA damage. The DNA electrochemical biosensor development, from the viewpoint of electrochemical and atomic force microscopy (AFM) characterization, and the bottom-up immobilization of DNA nanostructures at the electrode surface, are described. Applications of DNA electrochemical biosensors that enable the label-free detection of DNA interactions with pharmaceutical compounds, such as acridine derivatives, alkaloids, alkylating agents, alkylphosphocholines, antibiotics, antimetabolites, kinase inhibitors, immunomodulatory agents, metal complexes, nucleoside analogs, and phenolic compounds, which can be used in drug analysis and drug discovery, and may lead to future screening systems, are reviewed.
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Domańska IM, Oledzka E, Sobczak M. Sterilization process of polyester based anticancer-drug delivery systems. Int J Pharm 2020; 587:119663. [PMID: 32702451 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Recently, growing interest in biodegradable polyesters as drug carriers in the development of innovative anticancer drug delivery systems (DDSs) has been observed. These compounds are thermally unstable, and are therefore, particularly demanding due to the limited number of available sterilization techniques. Furthermore, the DDSs sterilization process is often limited to aseptic filtration. Ensuring aseptic production is very demanding and costly, and it is therefore necessary to work on the application of new sterilization methods. In view of this, this review presents the current state of knowledge regarding the radiation sterilization process of some anticancer drugs as well biodegradable polyester carriers (such as polylactide, polyglycolide, poly(ε-caprolactone), poly(trimethylene carbonate) and co- or terpolymers of lactide, glycolide, ε-caprolactone and trimethylene carbonate). The structural changes in anticancer DDSs under the influence of ionizing radiation and the potential degradation mechanisms of both, polyester carriers and cytostatics during the sterilization process of ionizing radiation as well as their effects on the microstructure and properties of DDSs have been discussed in this paper.
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- Izabela M Domańska
- Department of Biomaterials Chemistry, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Biomaterials, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, 1 Banacha St., Warsaw 02-097, Poland.
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- Department of Biomaterials Chemistry, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Biomaterials, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, 1 Banacha St., Warsaw 02-097, Poland.
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- Department of Biomaterials Chemistry, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Biomaterials, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, 1 Banacha St., Warsaw 02-097, Poland.
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Mendes CHS, Montenegro JGS, Queiroz NL, Moreira TCS, Nascimento VB, Oliveira SCB. Electrochemical Detection of Guanine‐methylation Using Glassy Carbon Electrode. ELECTROANAL 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201900223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Carlos H. S. Mendes
- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Recife-PE 52171-900 Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Recife-PE 52171-900 Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Recife-PE 52171-900 Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Recife-PE 52171-900 Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Química Recife-PE 52171-900 Brazil
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Sochr J, Nemčeková K, Černicová M, Campbell K, Milata V, Farkašová D, Labuda J. DNA Interaction with 17α‐Ethinylestradiol Studied Using Electrochemical Biosensors and Biosensing in Solution. ELECTROANAL 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201900091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Jozef Sochr
- Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry Radlinského 9 812 37 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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- Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry Radlinského 9 812 37 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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- Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry Radlinského 9 812 37 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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- University of DundeeSchool of Life Science Dow St Dundee DD1 5EH United Kingdom
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- Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Catalysis and Petrochemistry Radlinského 9 812 37 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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- Slovak Medical University in Bratislava Limbová 12 833 03 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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- Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry Radlinského 9 812 37 Bratislava Slovak Republic
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Wang X, Yang M, Liu Q, Yang S, Geng X, Yang Y, Fa H, Wang Y, Hou C. An Ultrasensitive Electrochemical DNA Biosensor Based on Carboxylated Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube/Molybdenum Disulfide Composites for KRAS Gene Detection. ANAL SCI 2018; 35:441-448. [PMID: 30606912 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.18p518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In this paper, an ultrasensitive electrochemical biosensor based on carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotube/molybdenum disulfide composites (MWCNTs-COOH/MoS2) for the detection of KRAS gene is described. An easy, low-cost method, named one-step hydrothermal, was used for the synthesize of MWCNTs-COOH/MoS2 nanocomposites, and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used for characterizing the prepared composites. Furthermore, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) were employed for an electrochemical performance study of this biosensor. Under optimal conditions, the detection limit of target DNA achieved down to 3 fM (S/N = 3) with high sensitivity; the linear range with the logarithm of the concentrations of target DNA varied from 1.0 × 10-14 to 1.0 × 10-7 M. Finally, the practicality of our proposed sensor was verified by a determination of the KRAS gene in human serum samples with good accuracy and high precision due to the excellent conductivity and large active surface area of the MWCNTs-COOH/MoS2 nanocomposites. This proposed biosensor thus provides a practical method for the rapid and sensitive analysis of gene detection.
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- Xiaojing Wang
- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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- Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University
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Electrochemical and AFM Characterization of G-Quadruplex Electrochemical Biosensors and Applications. J Nucleic Acids 2018; 2018:5307106. [PMID: 29666699 PMCID: PMC5831849 DOI: 10.1155/2018/5307106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2017] [Revised: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/05/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Guanine-rich DNA sequences are able to form G-quadruplexes, being involved in important biological processes and representing smart self-assembling nanomaterials that are increasingly used in DNA nanotechnology and biosensor technology. G-quadruplex electrochemical biosensors have received particular attention, since the electrochemical response is particularly sensitive to the DNA structural changes from single-stranded, double-stranded, or hairpin into a G-quadruplex configuration. Furthermore, the development of an increased number of G-quadruplex aptamers that combine the G-quadruplex stiffness and self-assembling versatility with the aptamer high specificity of binding to a variety of molecular targets allowed the construction of biosensors with increased selectivity and sensitivity. This review discusses the recent advances on the electrochemical characterization, design, and applications of G-quadruplex electrochemical biosensors in the evaluation of metal ions, G-quadruplex ligands, and other small organic molecules, proteins, and cells. The electrochemical and atomic force microscopy characterization of G-quadruplexes is presented. The incubation time and cations concentration dependence in controlling the G-quadruplex folding, stability, and nanostructures formation at carbon electrodes are discussed. Different G-quadruplex electrochemical biosensors design strategies, based on the DNA folding into a G-quadruplex, the use of G-quadruplex aptamers, or the use of hemin/G-quadruplex DNAzymes, are revisited.
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