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Zhang F, Liu J. Label‐Free Colorimetric Biosensors Based on Aptamers and Gold Nanoparticles: A Critical Review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/anse.202000023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fang Zhang
- College of Biological Science and Engineering Fuzhou University Fuzhou 350108 People's Republic of China
- Department of Chemistry Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology University of Waterloo Waterloo N2 L 3G1 Ontario Canada
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- Department of Chemistry Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology University of Waterloo Waterloo N2 L 3G1 Ontario Canada
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Zhang F, Huang PJJ, Liu J. Sensing Adenosine and ATP by Aptamers and Gold Nanoparticles: Opposite Trends of Color Change from Domination of Target Adsorption Instead of Aptamer Binding. ACS Sens 2020; 5:2885-2893. [PMID: 32847353 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
The 27 mer DNA aptamer for adenosine and adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) is a popular model system for designing biosensors. Various strategies have been reported for label-free colorimetric detection using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). It is generally accepted that free aptamers can protect AuNPs against salt-induced aggregation, whereas target-bound aptamers cannot. However, these studies only considered the aptamer binding to its target, and the adsorption of the aptamer on AuNPs, but none considered the adsorption of target molecules by AuNPs. We herein report that the adsorption of adenosine destabilized citrate-capped AuNPs with an apparent Kd of just 7.7 μM adenosine, whereas that of ATP stabilized the AuNPs because of the negative charges from the triphosphate group. The adsorbed ATP inhibited the adsorption of DNA. Using the aptamer and a nonbinding mutant, ATP and guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) had the same colorimetric response, and so did adenosine and guanosine, regardless of the DNA sequence, indicating that the color change mainly reflected the adsorption of the nucleosides and nucleotides instead of aptamer binding. The related literature examples using this aptamer were classified into three types and individually analyzed, where the reported color changes can all be explained by the adsorption of target analytes.
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- Fang Zhang
- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Chemistry, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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A novel voltammetric approach to the detection of primary bile acids in serum samples. Bioelectrochemistry 2020; 134:107539. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2020.107539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Colorimetric sensor array based on gold nanoparticles: Design principles and recent advances. Trends Analyt Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2019.115754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Javidi M, Housaindokht MR, Verdian A, Razavizadeh BM. Detection of chloramphenicol using a novel apta-sensing platform based on aptamer terminal-lock in milk samples. Anal Chim Acta 2018; 1039:116-123. [PMID: 30322542 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In this paper, a novel apta-sensing colorimetric platform for rapid detection of chloramphenicol (CAP) in raw milk was developed. The AuNPs are stabilized by short-sequences aptamers against salt induced aggregation and this is the base of most colorimetric aptasensors development. However, the statute shows low sensitivity for the long-sequence aptamers. Herein, we propose an alternative strategy that use intact long-sequence aptamers for develop a highly sensitive AuNP-based colorimetric aptasensor. Determination of CAP in animal derived foods is an urgent demanded in the effort to minimize food safety risk. Therefore, we chose it as the representative model to construct the colorimetric sensing platform based on aptamer terminal-lock (ATL). In the ATL, intact aptamer was used as a molecular recognition element and a short-sequence oligonucleotide serving as a locker probe (LP) which is complementary of aptamer terminal fragments. By formation of aptamer/target complex, the LP leaves the ATL and adsorbs on the surface of AuNPs, leading to the AuNPs stabilization against salt-induced aggregation. This aptasensor shows a low limit of detection (0.03 nM) with high selectivity toward CAP. Moreover, the designed sensing platform was successfully applied to detect CAP in the milk samples. These results demonstrate our introduced label-free method for CAP detection is simple, sensitive, and highly selective.
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- Mahbobeh Javidi
- Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
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- Department of Food Safety and Quality Control, Research Institute of Food Science and Technology (RIFST), Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Food Safety and Quality Control, Research Institute of Food Science and Technology (RIFST), Mashhad, Iran
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Malekzad H, Zangabad PS, Mohammadi H, Sadroddini M, Jafari Z, Mahlooji N, Abbaspour S, Gholami S, Ghanbarpoor M, Pashazadeh R, Beyzavi A, Karimi M, Hamblin MR. Noble metal nanostructures in optical biosensors: Basics, and their introduction to anti-doping detection. Trends Analyt Chem 2018; 100:116-135. [PMID: 29731530 PMCID: PMC5933885 DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2017.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Nanotechnology has illustrated significant potentials in biomolecular-sensing applications; particularly its introduction to anti-doping detection is of great importance. Illicit recreational drugs, substances that can be potentially abused, and drugs with dosage limitations according to the prohibited lists announced by the World Antidoping Agency (WADA) are becoming of increasing interest to forensic chemists. In this review, the theoretical principles of optical biosensors based on noble metal nanoparticles, and the transduction mechanism of commonly-applied plasmonic biosensors are covered. We review different classes of recently-developed plasmonic biosensors for analytic determination and quantification of illicit drugs in anti-doping applications. The important classes of illicit drugs include anabolic steroids, opioids, stimulants, and peptide hormones. The main emphasis is on the advantages that noble metal nano-particles bring to optical biosensors for signal enhancement and the development of highly sensitive (label-free) biosensors. In the near future, such optical biosensors may be an invaluable substitute for conventional anti-doping detection methods such as chromatography-based approaches, and may even be commercialized for routine anti-doping tests.
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- Hedieh Malekzad
- Advanced Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine Research Group (ANNRG), Iran
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- Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (RCPN), Tabriz University of Medical Science (TUOMS), Tabriz, Iran
- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Bio-Nano-Interfaces: Convergence of Sciences (BNICS), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
- Nanomedicine Research Association (NRA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
- Department of Medical Nanotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Young Researchers and Elite Club, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Polymer Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture and Food Science, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Semnan University, Semnan 35351-19111, Iran
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- School of Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, Iran
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- Advanced Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine Research Group (ANNRG), Iran
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- Koch Institute of MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Medical Nanotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Teheran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Iran
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Teheran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Iran
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Yoho JN, Geier B, Grigsby CC, Hagen JA, Chávez JL, Kelley-Loughnane N. Cross-Reactive Plasmonic Aptasensors for Controlled Substance Identification. SENSORS 2017; 17:s17091935. [PMID: 28832512 PMCID: PMC5620944 DOI: 10.3390/s17091935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In this work, we developed an assay to determine if an arbitrary white powder is a controlled substance, given the plasmonic response of aptamer-gold nanoparticle conjugates (Apt-AuNPs). Toward this end, we designed Apt-AuNPs with specific a response to common controlled substances without cross reactivity to chemicals typically used as fillers in street formulations. Plasmonic sensor variation was shown to produce unique data fingerprints for each chemical analyzed, supporting the application of multivariate statistical techniques to annotate unknown samples by chemical similarity. Importantly, the assay takes less than fifteen minutes to run, and requires only a few micrograms of the material, making the proposed assay easily deployable in field operations.
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- Joshua N Yoho
- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
- UES, Inc., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Road, Dayton, OH 45432, USA.
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- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
- UES, Inc., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Road, Dayton, OH 45432, USA.
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- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
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- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
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- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
- UES, Inc., 4401 Dayton-Xenia Road, Dayton, OH 45432, USA.
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- 711th Human Performance Wing, Airman Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
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Tan L, Chen Z, Zhang C, Wei X, Lou T, Zhao Y. Colorimetric Detection of Hg 2+ Based on the Growth of Aptamer-Coated AuNPs: The Effect of Prolonging Aptamer Strands. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2017; 13:1603370. [PMID: 28139891 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201603370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Herein, a versatile and sensitive colorimetric sensor for Hg2+ based on aptamer-target specific binding and target-mediated growth of AuNPs is reported. The 15 T bases are first designed to detect Hg2+ through T-Hg2+ -T coordination. Aptamer-target binding results in the desorption of the aptamer from AuNP surface, the remaining aptamers adsorbed on AuNP surface trigger the growth of AuNPs with morphologically varied nanostructures, and then different colored solutions are formed. On this occasion, the limit of detection (LOD) of 9.6 × 10-9 m is obtained. The other two aptamer strands (25- and 59-mer) are designed by increasing A bases on either side and both sides of 15 T, respectively. The interaction of the binding domain and Hg2+ makes desorption of 15 T from AuNP surface, whereas excess bases not committed to the binding domain still adsorbed on AuNP surface. These excess bases control the growth of AuNPs, and enhance the sensitivity. The LODs are 4.05 and 3 × 10-9 m for 25- and 59-mer aptamers, respectively. In addition, the 59-mer aptamer system is applied to identify Hg2+ in real river samples, the LOD of 6.2 × 10-9 m is obtained.
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- Lulu Tan
- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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Fast and Selective Plasmonic Serotonin Detection with Aptamer-Gold Nanoparticle Conjugates. SENSORS 2017; 17:s17040681. [PMID: 28346350 PMCID: PMC5419794 DOI: 10.3390/s17040681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Neurotransmitters detection is critical to understanding communication between the brain and peripheral tissue. Serotonin is a key neurotransmitter linked to a number of conditions, but a full understanding of its role in disease is still lacking. The development of fast and selective serotonin detection platforms will provide researchers with tools to monitor serotonin in individuals before and after treatment for the condition of interest. Aptamer-gold nanoparticles conjugates that responded colorimetrically to serotonin with minimal response to its metabolite and other neurotransmitters were designed by simply adsorbing the DNA on the surface of AuNPs. A plasmonic assay for serotonin detection was designed with a response to biologically relevant serotonin levels. Importantly, the assay performance was not compromised when tested in filtered spiked fetal bovine serum as a mimic of biofluids. This work shows that these simple and stable Apt-AuNP conjugates are promising tools to develop fast assays for point-of-care and personalized diagnostics applications.
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Zhu Q, Li T, Ma Y, Wang Z, Huang J, Liu R, Gu Y. Colorimetric detection of cholic acid based on an aptamer adsorbed gold nanoprobe. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra00255f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Au NPs modified with aptamers of different densities will grow into varied nanostructures with colours changing from blue to red.
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- Qiuyun Zhu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- School of Engineering
- China Pharmaceutical University
- Nanjing 210009
- China
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Alsager OA, Kumar S, Zhu B, Travas-Sejdic J, McNatty KP, Hodgkiss JM. Ultrasensitive colorimetric detection of 17β-estradiol: the effect of shortening DNA aptamer sequences. Anal Chem 2015; 87:4201-9. [PMID: 25803717 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We report a strategy enabling ultrasensitive colorimetric detection of 17β-estradiol (E2) in water and urine samples using DNA aptamer-coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Starting from an established sensor format where aggregation is triggered when target-bound aptamers dissociate from AuNP surfaces, we demonstrated that step-change improvements are easily accessible through deletion of excess flanking nucleotides from aptamer sequences. After evaluating the lowest energy two-dimensional configuration of the previously isolated E2 binding 75-mer aptamer (KD ∼25 nM), new 35-mer and 22-mer aptamers were generated with KD's of 14 and 11 nM by simply removing flanking nucleotides on either side of the inner core. The shorter aptamers were found to improve discrimination against other steroidal molecules and to improve colorimetric sensitivity for E2 detection by 25-fold compared with the 75-mer to 200 pM. In comparing the response of all sequences, we find that the excess flanking nucleotides suppress signal transduction by causing target-bound aptamers to remain adhered to AuNPs, which we confirm via surface sensitive electrochemical measurements. However, comparison between the 22-mer and 35-mer systems show that retaining a small number of excess bases is optimal. The performance advances we achieved by specifically considering the signal transduction mechanism ultimately resulted in facile detection of E2 in urine, as well as enabling environmental detection of E2 at levels approaching biological relevance.
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- §School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6040, New Zealand
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- ∥Polymer Electronics Research Centre, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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- ∥Polymer Electronics Research Centre, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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- §School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6040, New Zealand
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