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Label-free and highly sensitive APE1 detection based on rolling circle amplification combined with G-quadruplex

Authors :
Birong Liu
Zizhong Yang
Ting Huang
Min-Min Li
Wenjun Duan
Baoping Xie
Jin-Xiang Chen
Zong Dai
Jun Chen
Source :
Talanta. 244
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

The highly sensitive detection of low-abundant apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) activity is of great significance for early diagnosis of disease and pathological research. Many methods for detecting APE1 based on isothermal nucleic acids amplification have been developed for improving its sensitivity. However, some of these methods have certain limitations, such as multiple reaction steps, narrow linear range, and complicated processes for fluorescent labeling. Herein, we develop a highly sensitive and label-free APE1 fluorescence detection method based on rolling circle amplification combined with G-quadruplex (RCA-G4). A hairpin probe (HP) labeled with the AP site can be recognized and cleaved by APE1, leading to the release of the primer sequence, which triggered RCA to produce long chain amplification products with a great amount of repeated sequences. The formed amplicon contains a series G-quadruplex structure, which can be combined with Thioflavin T (ThT) to produce fluorescence and achieve high sensitivity label-free detection of APE1. Benefit from the high amplification efficiency of RCA and the high fluorescence quantum yield of G-quadruplex/ThT, a detection limit as low as 1.52 × 10

Details

ISSN :
18733573
Volume :
244
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Talanta
Accession number :
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