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Lee AW, Dong Y, Natani S, Ban DK, Bandaru PR. Toward the Ultimate Limit of Analyte Detection, in Graphene-Based Field-Effect Transistors. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:1214-1222. [PMID: 38230628 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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The ultimate sensitivity of field-effect-transistor (FET)-based devices for ionic species detection is of great interest, given that such devices are capable of monitoring single-electron-level modulations. It is shown here, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives, that for such ultimate limits to be approached the thermodynamic as well as kinetic characteristics of the (FET surface)-(linker)-(ion-receptor) ensemble must be considered. The sensitivity was probed in terms of optimal packing of the ensemble, through a minimal charge state/capacitance point of view and atomic force microscopy. Through the fine-tuning of the linker and receptor interaction with the sensing surface, a record limit of detection as well as specificity in the femtomolar range, orders of magnitude better than previously obtained and in excellent accord with prediction, was observed.
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- Alex W Lee
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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- Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, Los Angeles, California 91711, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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Wu X, Yuan H, Zhao R, Wang P, Yuan M, Cao H, Ye T, Xu F. Mechanisms of ssDNA aptamer binding to Cd 2+ in aqueous solution: A molecular dynamics study. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 251:126412. [PMID: 37598831 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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ssDNA aptamers have been increasingly used to detect heavy metal ions as recognition elements due to their high affinity and specificity. However, the specific recognition and binding mechanisms between aptamers and most heavy metals were still unclear, which limits the development of aptamer-based detection methods. In this work, the interaction mechanisms of CD-2-1 aptamers with Cd2+ in aqueous solutions were investigated using molecular dynamic simulations. The most stable complex was found where Cd2+ binding at aptamer's stem-loop junction and preferred at the phosphate backbone or bases. Noteworthily, two binding modes of Cd2+ combining aptamer in aqueous solution were discovered: direct and indirect. In the former mode, Cd2+ directly coordinated O atoms of bases. For the latter, Cd2+ connected to bases with coordinated water molecules as bridges. Electrostatic interaction was found to be the main driving force, and differences of residues role between two binding modes were elucidated. Buffer molecules in aqueous solutions can stabilize aptamer-Cd2+ complex by hydrogen bonds. This study revealed the specific interaction mechanisms of aptamer with Cd2+ at an atomic level, which provided theoretical references for aptamer-based Cd2+ detection methods establishment as well as an efficient technical route of screening potential aptamers for heavy metal ions.
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- Xiuxiu Wu
- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- School of Health Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Rapid Detection, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China..
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Huang Z, Song H, Feng L, Qin J, Wang Q, Guo B, Wei L, Lu Y, Guo H, Zhu D, Ma X, Guo Y, Zheng H, Li M, Su Z. A novel ultrasensitive electrochemical sensor based on a hybrid of rGO/MWCNT/AuNP for the determination of lead(II) in tea drinks. Microchem J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2022.108346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mohagheghpour E, Farzin L, Malek M, Sadjadi S. A sensing strategy based on aptamers alkylated with melphalan and graphite nanocrystals in a bed of tetrahedral amorphous carbon for electrochemical detection of lead ions in human urine. Microchem J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2022.108206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Qin Y, Qin Y, Bubiajiaer H, Chen F, Yao J, Zhang M. Engineering constructed of high selectivity dexamethasone aptamer based on truncation and mutation technology. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:994711. [PMID: 36177181 PMCID: PMC9513367 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.994711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Various biosensors based on aptamers are currently the most popular rapid detection approaches, but the performance of these sensors is closely related to the affinity of aptamers. In this work, a strategy for constructed high-affinity aptamer was proposed. By truncating the bases flanking the 59 nt dexamethasones (DEX) original aptamer sequence to improve the sensitivity of the aptamer to DEX, and then base mutation was introduced to further improve the sensitivity and selectivity of aptamers. Finally, the 33 nt aptamer Apt-M13 with G-quadruplex structures was obtained. The dissociation constant (Kd) was determined to be 200 nM by Graphene oxide (GO)-based fluorometry. As-prepared Apt-M13 was used for a label-free colorimetric aptamer sensor based on gold nanoparticles, the LOD was 3.2-fold lower than the original aptamer described in previous works. The anti-interference ability of DEX analogs is also further improved. It indicates that truncation technology effectively improves the specificity of the aptamer to DEX in this work, and the introduction of mutation further improves the affinity and selectivity of the aptamer to DEX. Therefore, the proposed aptamer optimization method is also expected to become a general strategy for various aptamer sequences.
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- Yadi Qin
- School of Pharmacy, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
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- College Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
- *Correspondence: Jun Yao, ; Minwei Zhang,
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- College Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China
- *Correspondence: Jun Yao, ; Minwei Zhang,
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Yu Q, Li M, Liu M, Huang S, Wang G, Wang T, Li P. Selection and Characterization of ssDNA Aptamers Targeting Largemouth Bass Virus Infected Cells With Antiviral Activities. Front Microbiol 2022; 12:785318. [PMID: 34975807 PMCID: PMC8718865 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.785318] [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: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Largemouth bass virus (LMBV) is one of the most devastating viral pathogens in farmed Largemouth bass. Aptamers are novel molecule probes and have been widely applied in the field of efficient therapeutic and diagnostic agents development. LMBV-infected fathead minnow cells (LMBV-FHM) served as target cells in this study, and three DNA aptamers (LBVA1, LBVA2, and LBVA3) were generated against target cells by SELEX technology. The selected aptamers could specifically bind to LMBV-FHM cells, with rather high calculated dissociation constants (Kd) of 890.09, 517.22, and 249.31 nM for aptamers LBVA1, LBVA2, and LBVA3, respectively. Three aptamers displayed efficient antiviral activities in vitro. It indicates that the selected aptamers have great potentials in developing efficient anti-viruses treatments. The targets of aptamers LBVA1, LBVA2, and LBVA3 could be membrane proteins on host cells. The targets of aptamers (LBVA1, LBVA2, and LBVA3) come out on the cells surface at 8, 10, 8 h post-infection. As novel molecular probes for accurate recognition, aptamer LBVA3 could detect LMBV infection in vitro and in vivo, it indicates that the selected aptamers could be applied in the development of rapid detective technologies, which are characterized by high sensitivity, accuracy, and easy operation.
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- Qing Yu
- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China.,College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China.,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Natural Products and Combinatorial Biosynthesis Chemistry, Guangxi Beibu Gulf Marine Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China.,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Biodiversity Conservation, College of Marine Sciences, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou, China
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- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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- Guangxi Engineering Research Center for Fishery Major Diseases Control and Efficient Healthy Breeding Industrial Technology (GERCFT), Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China.,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Natural Products and Combinatorial Biosynthesis Chemistry, Guangxi Beibu Gulf Marine Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, China.,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Biodiversity Conservation, College of Marine Sciences, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou, China
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Niu Y, Chen Y, Zhang X, Xie H, Luo G, Sun W. Photoelectrochemical biosensor for lead ion determination based on complementary strand aptamers. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Yanyan Niu
- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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- China Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Photoelectrochemistry of Haikou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hainan Normal University Haikou China
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Rapid and selective electrochemical detection of pb2+ ions using aptamer-conjugated alloy nanoparticles. SN APPLIED SCIENCES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-020-03840-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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McConnell EM, Nguyen J, Li Y. Aptamer-Based Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring. Front Chem 2020; 8:434. [PMID: 32548090 PMCID: PMC7272472 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Due to their relative synthetic and chemical simplicity compared to antibodies, aptamers afford enhanced stability and functionality for the detection of environmental contaminants and for use in environmental monitoring. Furthermore, nucleic acid aptamers can be selected for toxic targets which may prove difficult for antibody development. Of particular relevance, aptamers have been selected and used to develop biosensors for environmental contaminants such as heavy metals, small-molecule agricultural toxins, and water-borne bacterial pathogens. This review will focus on recent aptamer-based developments for the detection of diverse environmental contaminants. Within this domain, aptamers have been combined with other technologies to develop biosensors with various signal outputs. The goal of much of this work is to develop cost-effective, user-friendly detection methods that can complement or replace traditional environmental monitoring strategies. This review will highlight recent examples in this area. Additionally, with innovative developments such as wearable devices, sentinel materials, and lab-on-a-chip designs, there exists significant potential for the development of multifunctional aptamer-based biosensors for environmental monitoring. Examples of these technologies will also be highlighted. Finally, a critical perspective on the field, and thoughts on future research directions will be offered.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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Khoshbin Z, Housaindokht MR. Computer-Aided aptamer design for sulfadimethoxine antibiotic: step by step mutation based on MD simulation approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2020; 39:3071-3079. [PMID: 32323612 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1760133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This study introduces a computational method to design a new aptamer with higher binding affinity to a special target in comparison with the experimentally available aptamers. The method is called step by step mutation based on MD simulation, which includes some steps. First, MD simulation is performed for the SELEX-introduced (native) aptamer in the presence of the target. Afterwards, conformational factor (Pi) is calculated for the simulated system, which obtains the affinity of the aptamer residues to the target. A nucleotide exchange is done for the residue with the least Pi parameter to the nucleotide with the highest Pi value that results in a mutant aptamer. MD simulation is performed for the target-mutant complex, and Pi values are calculated again. The nucleotide exchange is performed similarly, and the designing process is proceeded repeatedly that results in a mutant with the improved specificity to the target. The aptamer affinity to the target is also determined in each step through calculating the binding Gibbs energy (ΔGBind) as a reliable parameter. The introduced strategy is utilized efficiently to design a mutant aptamer with improved specificity toward sulfadimethoxine (SDM) antibiotic as a case study. The great difference in the ΔGBind values about 579.856 kJ mol-1 highlights that the M5 mutant possesses the improved specificity toward SDM in comparison with the native aptamer. Besides, the selectivity of the M5 aptamer toward SDM is examined among some conventional interfering compounds by using MD simulation that confirms the applicability of the designed aptamer for further experimental studies.
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- Zahra Khoshbin
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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