Apamer-based sensitive and label-free electrochemical detection of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin via recycling amplification cascades

Autor: Jianmei Yang, Xiaoyan Gan, Xinmei Song, Ruo Yuan, Yun Xiang
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Analytica Chimica Acta. 1233:340515
ISSN: 0003-2670
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2022.340515
Popis: Sensitive and selective detection of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is critical for the prediction and early diagnosis of acute renal injury. In this work, the establishment of an aptamer-based, highly sensitive and label-free method for detecting NGAL in diluted human serums via metal ion-dependent DNAzyme- and exonuclease III (Exo III)-triggered recycling signal amplification cascades is described. NGAL binds with the aptamer strands in the DNAzyme/aptamer duplexes and results in the liberation of the metal ion-dependent DNAzyme sequences to cleave the hairpin signal probes on the electrode to liberate the G-quadruplex and intermediate strands. The released intermediate strands further complement with the DNAzyme/aptamer duplexes to form favorable substrate for Exo III, which digests the duplexes to release the DNAzyme strands to initiate the cascaded recycling cycles for the yield of plenty of G-quadruplex strands. Hemin can associate with G-quadruplex strands to produce many G-quadruplex/hemin complexes and electrochemical reduction of hemin thus generates highly amplified current for detecting NGAL with the detection limit of 4.45 ng mL
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