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Sánchez-Visedo A, Ferrero FJ, Costa-Fernández JM, Fernández-Argüelles MT. Inorganic nanoparticles coupled to nucleic acid enzymes as analytical signal amplification tools. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022; 414:5201-5215. [PMID: 35292825 PMCID: PMC8923336 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-03998-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Nucleic acid enzymes (NAzymes) are a class of nucleic acid molecules with catalytic activity, which can be modulated by the presence of different species such as metal ions, genetic biomarkers, small molecules or proteins, among others. NAzymes offer several important advantages for development of novel bioanalytical strategies, resulting from their functionality as specific recognition elements and as amplified analytical signal generators, making them ideal candidates for developing highly specific bioanalytical strategies for the detection of a wide variety of targets. When coupled with the exceptional features of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs), the sensitivity of the assays can be significantly improved, allowing the detection of targets using many different detection techniques including visual readout, spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, electrochemiluminescence, voltammetry, and single-particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Here we provide an overview of the fundamentals of novel strategies developed to achieve analytical signal amplification based on the use of NAzymes coupled with inorganic NPs. Some representative examples of such strategies for the highly sensitive detection of different targets will be presented, including metal ions, proteins, DNA- or RNA-based biomarkers, and small molecules or microorganisms. Furthermore, future prospective challenges will be discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adrián Sánchez-Visedo
- Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Avenida Julian Clavería 8, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain.
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic, Computers and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo, Campus de Gijón, Sede 3, 33204, Gijon (Asturias), Spain
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- Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Avenida Julian Clavería 8, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain
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- Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Avenida Julian Clavería 8, 33006, Oviedo (Asturias), Spain
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Negahdary M, Angnes L. Electrochemical nanobiosensors equipped with peptides: a review. Mikrochim Acta 2022; 189:94. [PMID: 35132460 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-022-05184-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Recent research in the field of electrochemical biosensors equipped with peptides and nanomaterials have been categorized, reviewed, and critically analyzed. Indeed, using these innovative biosensors can revolutionize biomedical diagnostics in the future. Saving lives, time, and money in this field will be considered as some main benefits of this type of diagnosis. Here, these biosensors have been categorized and evaluated in four main sections. In the first section, the focus is on investigating the types of electrochemical peptide-based nanobiosensors applied to detect pathogenic microorganisms, microbial toxins, and viruses. In the second section, due to the importance of rapid diagnosis and prognosis of various cancers, the electrochemical peptide-based nanobiosensors designed to detect cancer biomarkers have been reviewed and analyzed. In the third section, the electrochemical peptide-based nanobiosensors, which were applied to detect the essential and effective biomolecules in the various diseases, and health control, including enzymes, hormones, biomarkers, and other biomolecules, have been considered. Finally, using a comprehensive analysis, all the used elements in these biosensors have been presented as conceptual diagrams that can effectively guide researchers in future developments. The essential factors in evaluating and analyzing these electrochemical peptide-based nanobiosensors such as analyte, peptide sequence, functional groups interacted between the peptide sequences and other biosensing components, the applied nanomaterials, diagnostic techniques, detection range, and limit of detection have also been included. Other analyzable items such as the type of used redox marker and the location of the peptide sequence against the signal transducer were also considered.
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- Masoud Negahdary
- Department of Fundamental Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 748, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil.
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- Department of Fundamental Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 748, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil.
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Cheng W, Ma J, Zhang Y, Xu C, Zhang Z, Hu L, Li J. Bio-inspired construction of a semi-artificial enzyme complex for detecting histone acetyltransferases activity. Analyst 2020; 145:613-618. [PMID: 31782424 DOI: 10.1039/c9an01896d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Herein, an electrochemical method to detect histone acetyltransferases activity (HAT) has been developed based on the reduction of G-Quadruplex-Cu(ii) metalloenzyme activity. A G-quadruplex-Cu(ii) metalloenzyme has excellent peroxidase property, generating strong electrochemical signal. In the presence of HAT, it can catalyze substrate peptide acetylation and produce large amounts of Coenzyme A (CoA). The electrochemical signal of G-Quadruplex-Cu(ii) is weak due to the competitive combination between G-Quadruplex and CoA with Cu(ii), resulting in the direct quantitative detection of HAT. The detection limit for HAT is about 0.14 nM using this strategy and the cost is quite low since the developed assay method is label-free and antibody-free due to the use of low-cost DNA and Cu2+. Since this assay method can be employed to detect HAT in serum, it may be useful in disease diagnosis in the future.
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- Wenting Cheng
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Gaochun People's Hospital, Nanjing 211300, P. R. China
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Electrochemical analysis of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine with enhanced sensitivity based on exonuclease-mediated functional nucleic acid. Talanta 2019; 199:324-328. [PMID: 30952266 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.02.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 02/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In this work, an electrochemical method for sensitive analysis of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, a key biomarker that is widely used to study oxidative injury-related diseases, is proposed based on exonuclease-mediated functional nucleic acid. In the design, exonuclease can not only distinguish the existence of target, but also suppress the background noise, thus the sensitivity can be enhanced. Moreover, DNAzyme designed in the functional nucleic acid can further improve the sensitivity of the analysis during signal generation process. Therefore, exonuclease-mediated functional nucleic acid may ensure high sensitivity of the assay. Further studies reveal that the detection of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine can be achieved with a linearity from 0.01 nM to 7.0 μM and a detection limit of 6.82 pM. The new method has also been successfully applied to the determination of 8-OHdG in urine with good results, indicating its great potential for practical use.
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Li C, Ma J, Shi H, Hu X, Xiang Y, Li Y, Li G. Design of a stretchable DNAzyme for sensitive and multiplexed detection of antibodies. Anal Chim Acta 2018; 1041:102-107. [PMID: 30340681 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.08.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Advanced methods for developing and applying responsive DNA nanodevices are of great interest. Herein, we report a stretchable DNAzyme that allows simple, multiplexed and sensitive fluorescent detection of antibodies. We find that rigid antibody can tightly stretch soft, antigen-labelled DNAzyme strand and disrupt the hybridization between DNAzyme and its substrate. Based on this finding, we develop a novel strategy to detect antibodies. Due to the robustness and high activity of DNAzyme, this assay can easily detect target as low as 1 ± 0.25 pM and achieve multiplexed detection by using a cocktail of DNAzymes. The proposed assay not only provides a new approach to readily measure antibody, but broadens the application of DNAzyme that is usually employed to detect metal ions or indirectly analyze biomolecules without the cumbersome design.
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- Chao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Reproductive Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Nanjing Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, Affiliated with Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210014, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China; Center for Molecular Recognition and Biosensing, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, PR China.
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A protease-free and signal-on electrochemical biosensor for ultrasensitive detection of lead ion based on GR-5 DNAzyme and catalytic hairpin assembly. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.03.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Jia Y, Li F. Studies of Functional Nucleic Acids Modified Light Addressable Potentiometric Sensors: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Biochemical Assay, and Simulation. Anal Chem 2018; 90:5153-5161. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b05261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Yunfang Jia
- College of Electronic Information and Optic Engineering, Nankai University, Weijin Road, Tianjin, Nankai District, 300071, China
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- College of Electronic Information and Optic Engineering, Nankai University, Weijin Road, Tianjin, Nankai District, 300071, China
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Li X, Yang J, Xie J, Jiang B, Yuan R, Xiang Y. Cascaded signal amplification via target-triggered formation of aptazyme for sensitive electrochemical detection of ATP. Biosens Bioelectron 2017; 102:296-300. [PMID: 29156404 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Revised: 10/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The construction of reliable sensors for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) detection gains increasing interest because of its important roles in various enzymatic activities and biological processes. Based on a cascaded, significant signal amplification approach by the integration of the aptazymes and catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA), we have developed a sensitive electrochemical sensor for the detection of ATP. The target ATP leads to the conformational change of the aptazyme sequences and their association with the hairpin substrates to form active aptazymes, in which the hairpin substrates are cyclically cleaved by the metal ion cofactors in buffer to release the enzymatic sequences that can also bind the hairpin substrates to generate active DNAzymes. The catalytic cleavage of the hairpin substrates in the aptazymes/DNAzymes thus results in the generation of a large number of intermediate sequences. Subsequently, these intermediate sequences trigger catalytic capture of many methylene blue-tagged signal sequences on the electrode surface through CHA, producing significantly amplified current response for sensitive detection of ATP at 0.6nM. Besides, the developed sensor can discriminate ATP from analogous interference molecules and be applied to human serum samples, making the sensor a useful addition to the arena for sensitive detection of small molecules.
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- Xia Li
- Key Laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescent and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China.
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Anderson K, Poulter B, Dudgeon J, Li SE, Ma X. A Highly Sensitive Nonenzymatic Glucose Biosensor Based on the Regulatory Effect of Glucose on Electrochemical Behaviors of Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles on MoS₂†. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2017; 17:E1807. [PMID: 28783068 PMCID: PMC5579834 DOI: 10.3390/s17081807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Revised: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A novel and highly sensitive nonenzymatic glucose biosensor was developed by nucleating colloidal silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on MoS₂. The facile fabrication method, high reproducibility (97.5%) and stability indicates a promising capability for large-scale manufacturing. Additionally, the excellent sensitivity (9044.6 μA mM-1 cm-2), low detection limit (0.03 μM), appropriate linear range of 0.1-1000 μM, and high selectivity suggests that this biosensor has a great potential to be applied for noninvasive glucose detection in human body fluids, such as sweat and saliva.
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- Kash Anderson
- Department of Chemistry, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83201, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83201, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83201, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83201, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83201, USA.
- Present address: Department of Chemistry, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA 50316, USA.
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