A Rapid and Sensitive Aptamer-Based Biosensor for Amnesic Shellfish Toxin Domoic Acid

Autor: Luming Zhao, Han Guo, Han Chen, Bin Zou, Chengfang Yang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Yun Gao, Mingjuan Sun, Lianghua Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Bioengineering, Vol 9, Iss 11, p 684 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2306-5354
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9110684
Popis: With the incidence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) increasing in recent years, the urgent demand for the detection of domoic acid (DA), an amnesic shellfish toxin mainly produced by red tide algae Pseudonitzschia, has aroused increasing attention. Aptamers, a new molecular recognition element, provide clarity in the monitoring of DA. In this study, aptamers of DA were successfully screened by Capture-SELEX. Through identification and truncation optimization, aptamer C1-d with a high affinity (KD value, 109 nM) and high specificity for DA was obtained. The binding mechanism between DA and the aptamer was explored by molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, revealing the critical sites for DA–aptamer interaction. Meanwhile, a BLI-based aptasensor was constructed by C1-d, which displayed a linear range from 0.625 to 10 μM and a LOD of 13.7 nM. This aptasensor exhibited high specificity, good precision and repeatability, and high recovery rates for real samples; the process of detection could be completed in 7 min. This study is the first to identify and investigate the binding mechanism of DA–aptamer interaction and constructed a BLI-based aptasensor for DA, which lays a theoretical foundation for the detection and prevention of DA.
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