基于Cell-SELEX的核酸适配体在生化分析与生物成像中的应用

基于Cell-SELEX的核酸适配体是指以活细胞为靶标物,通过指数富集的配基系统进化技术(Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment,SELEX)从人工合成的DNA/RNA文库中筛选得到的单链寡核苷酸.它能够与靶标细胞高亲和性、高特异性结合,具有分子量低、合成简单、化学稳定性好、免疫原性低、易于功能化修饰等优点,已广泛应用于生命科学研究领域.本文综述了基于Cell-SELEX技术筛选的核酸适配体在肿瘤细胞检测、分析和成像方面的研究进展,并对核酸适配体研究的发展前景和趋势进行了展望.     

细菌的核酸适配体筛选的研究进展

核酸适配体(aptamer)是通过指数富集配体系统进化技术(SELEX)筛选的能够以高亲和力和高特异性识别靶标分子或细胞的核糖核酸(RNA)和单链脱氧核糖核酸(ssDNA)。作为化学抗体,核酸适配体的制备和合成比抗体的成本更低。核酸适配体的靶标范围极其广泛,包括小分子、生物大分子、细菌和细胞等。针对细菌靶标筛选的适配体,目前主要应用于食品、医药和环境中的细菌检测。细菌的核酸适配体筛选可以通过离心法将菌体-适配体复合物与游离的适配体分离,并通过荧光成像、荧光光谱分析、流式细胞仪分选、DNA捕获元件、酶联适配体分析等方法表征适配体与靶标的相互作用。筛选出的适配体可结合生物、化学检测方法用于细菌检测。本文介绍了细菌适配体的筛选和表征方法以及基于适配体的检测方法的最新进展,分析了不同检测方法的利弊,并列出了2011~2015年筛选的细菌的核酸适配体。     

核酸适配体传感器在黄曲霉毒素B1检测中应用研究进展北大核心CSCD

核酸适配体作为一种新型识别分子,具有亲和力高、稳定性强、制备成本低、特异性强等优点,但其自身不具有信号转换功能,它与靶标分子特异性结合过程,不可产生被检测的物理化学信号。因此,需将核酸适配体与靶标分子特异性识别结合过程转为易于被检测的物理化学信号变化的过程。根据信号转换方式的不同,可将适配体生物传感器分为荧光适配体传感器、比色适配体传感器、电化学适配体传感器和表面拉曼散射适配体传感器。本文对基于以上4种检测信号的核酸适配体生物传感器在黄曲霉毒素(AFB1)检测方面的应用进行综述,并概述该类传感器应用前景和当前面临的挑战。     

核酸适配子探针对转移性大肠癌细胞的多靶点成像及其靶标的定量分析

利用核酸适配子对肿瘤细胞的高亲和力靶向识别功能以及量子点的高荧光发射强度和光稳定性等特性,制备了识别不同靶点的核酸适配子探针,将其联合使用实现了对肿瘤细胞的多靶点成像及其靶标的定量分析.使用通过Cell-SELEX技术筛选得到的可特异性识别转移性大肠癌细胞系Lo Vo的7个核酸适配子,分别与量子点QD605偶联制备分子探针.基于流式细胞术的竞争实验结果表明,7个探针可特异性识别靶细胞的不同靶点,相互之间无识别干扰.对靶细胞的荧光成像表明,与单一探针相比,多个探针联合使用可明显提高细胞表面的荧光信号强度,且阳性细胞检出率明显增多,显示出更高的检测灵敏度.使用流式细胞术及荧光成像定量方法分析了7个探针对不同转移特性大肠癌细胞系的识别能力,结果表明,多个探针联合使用可有效评价大肠癌细胞的转移潜能.本研究证实通过多个核酸适配子探针的联合使用可有效提高对靶细胞识别的灵敏度和准确性,为核酸适配子的广泛应用及大肠癌的靶向诊断提供了新的思路和手段.     

全细胞的核酸适配体筛选的研究进展

核酸适配体(aptamer)是从人工合成的随机单链DNA(ssDNA)或RNA文库中筛选得到的,能够高亲和力、高特异性地与靶标结合的ssDNA或RNA。核酸适配体的靶标范围广,可包括小分子、蛋白质、细胞、微生物等多种靶标。其中以细胞为靶标的适配体在生物感应、分子成像、医学诊断、药物传输和疾病治疗等领域有很大的应用潜能。但全细胞的核酸适配体筛选过程复杂,筛选难度大,筛选的适配体性能不佳是导致目前可用的适配体非常有限的主要原因。由于细胞表面蛋白质在提取纯化过程中分子结构和形态会发生改变,故以膜表面蛋白质为靶标筛选的适配体很难应用于识别整体细胞。以全细胞为靶标的核酸适配体筛选则不需要准确了解细胞表面的分子结构,筛选过程中可保持细胞的天然状态,以全细胞为靶标筛选出的核酸适配体有望直接用于全细胞识别。本文总结了2008~2015年全细胞的核酸适配体筛选的研究进展,介绍了靶细胞的分类、核酸库的设计、筛选条件和方法以及核酸适配体的亲和力表征方法等。并列出全细胞靶标的核酸适配体序列。     

基于核酸适配体和纳米粒子的光学探针

核酸适配体(aptamer)是一类通过指数富集的配体系统进化技术(SELEX)经体外筛选得到的单链DNA或RNA。核酸适配体借自身形成的空间结构与靶标分子特异性结合,具有靶分子广、亲和力高、特异性强、易改造修饰等特点,因而在生命科学、临床诊断、药物发现和环境科学等方面得以广泛应用。近年来,核酸适配体与纳米技术结合,并利用纳米材料在光学、磁学、电学、化学及生物学方面表现出的特殊性质,实现了对靶标分子高灵敏度、高选择性、简便快速的识别与检测。本文评述了基于核酸适配体-纳米粒子特性的光学探针在生物大分子、金属离子和有机小分子检测等领域的应用现状与发展趋势,主要包括比色法、荧光光谱法、表面增强拉曼光谱法等。     

胃腺癌核酸适配体的筛选与特异性研究

核酸适配体可作为分子探针应用于胃腺癌的早期诊断和治疗,具有广泛应用前景。本实验利用Serum-SELEX（Ser-SELEX）技术筛选胃腺癌核酸适配体。通过对候选适配体二级结构分析,其二级结构多为茎环结构。圆二色谱分析显示,7条候选核酸适配体呈右手螺旋特征。通过荧光定量核酸扩增检测系统（q-PCR）检测了候选核酸适配体对胃腺癌靶标的亲和力,表明候选核酸适配体浓度梯度与Ct值均呈正相关,亲和力常数为纳摩尔级别。利用q-PCR法、量子点法验证了候选核酸适配体识别靶标的特异性,结果均显示Apt-101对靶标亲和力更高,特异性更强,Apt-101的平衡解离常数（K_d值）为6.444±1.128nmol/L,特异性检测阳性率大于70%。     

核酸适配体在癌症诊断中的研究进展

核酸适配体是通过指数富集配体系统进化技术(SELEX)从体外合成的寡核苷酸文库中筛选得到的短的寡核苷酸分子(ssDNA或RNA).核酸适配体能够通过折叠成特定的空间结构与靶标分子进行特异性结合,与抗体相比,适配体具有高亲和力、易修饰、低成本、易于合成和低免疫原性等优势,可以针对细胞、蛋白质、组织、生长因子进行癌症生物标...     

适配体探针传感技术进展

适配体是通过指数富集配基的系统进化技术体外筛选得到的一组能与靶分子高亲和、高特异性结合的寡核苷酸序列（单链DNA或RNA）。作为一类新型的功能分子,适配体己在生命科学、化学等领域获得愈来愈多的应用。以不同类型的示踪分子标记适配体后,该类适配体探针可以直观地将适配体与靶分子的特异性识别转化为灵敏的示踪信号,从而为金属离子、有机小分子、核酸和蛋白质等大分子乃至细胞等的检测提供一种灵敏、特异的新型模式。本文阐述适配体探针在多种传感技术方面中的应用,并着重介绍适配体探针荧光传感技术的最新发展。     

小分子靶标的核酸适配体筛选的研究进展

核酸适配体(aptamer)是通过指数富集配体系统进化(SELEX)技术筛选得到的核糖核酸(RNA)或单链脱氧核糖核酸(ssDNA)。核酸适配体通过高亲和力特异性地识别小分子、蛋白质、细胞、微生物等多种靶标,在生物、医药、食品和环境检测等领域的应用日渐增多。但目前实际可用的核酸适配体有限,其筛选过程复杂,筛选难度大,制约了其应用。与生物大分子、细胞和微生物等靶标不同,小分子靶标与核酸分子的结合位点少、亲和力弱,且靶标通常需要固定在载体上。此外,小分子靶标结合核酸形成的复合物与核酸自身的大小、质量、电荷性质等方面差异较小,二者的分离难度大。故小分子靶标的核酸适配体筛选过程与大分子和细胞等复合靶标相比有明显差异,筛选难度更大。因此需要根据其自身结构特点和核酸适配体的应用目的选定靶标或核酸库的固定方法,优化靶标核酸复合物的分离方法。本文介绍了不同类型小分子(具有基团差异的单分子、含相同基团分子和手性分子等)靶标的选择及其核酸适配体的筛选方法,并对核酸库的设计、与靶标结合的核酸的分离方法和亲和作用表征方法进行了介绍,列出了自2008年以来报道的40余种小分子靶标的核酸适配体序列和复合物的平衡解离常数(K_d)。     

基于核酸适体的外泌体分子识别研究进展

自研究者证实外泌体承担了细胞外RNA等物质的运输功能以来, 关于外泌体来源与功能的研究一直备受关注. 近年来外泌体被发现具有作为疾病生物标志物的潜力, 使得拥有特定表面蛋白以及特定装载物的外泌体成为分析化学领域有价值的检测对象. 从化学本质角度来说, 外泌体的获取与分析需要依赖特异性的分子识别过程. 核酸适体作为分子识别单元, 因其特异性强、 亲和力高、 生物活性稳定、 易于合成和保存、 而且其序列和结构上具有可编程性, 易于设计和修饰, 已成功地用在外泌体相关的生物传感体系中. 本文从外泌体的化学组成及其具有生理、 病理意义的组分出发, 从外泌体通用生物标志物识别、癌细胞来源外泌体的检测及外泌体蛋白谱的分析这3个方面综述了以核酸适体作为分子识别单元在外泌体分析领域的代表性工作, 总结了现有的靶向外泌体的核酸适体序列信息以及应用场景, 阐述了利用化学合成与修饰以及DNA自组装等化学调控手段增强核酸适体分子识别性能的最新进展, 并从适用于外泌体分子识别的核酸适体的筛选以及化学修饰的角度, 对未来的研究方向进行了展望.     

高灵敏光学和电化学适配体传感器在真菌毒素快速检测中的研究进展

高灵敏的生物传感器在痕量真菌毒素污染的快速检测中备受关注.适配体除具有与抗体类似的高选择性外,还具有可体外合成和易修饰等独特优势,已成为现阶段生物传感器中常用的识别元件.随着指数富集的配体系统进化(SELEX)技术的发展,筛选获得的真菌毒素适配体越来越多,为不同真菌毒素的检测提供了基础条件,而适配体结合现代新型纳米材料...     

Aptamers: Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents for Blood Diseases

Aptamers are RNA/DNA oligonucleotide molecules that specifically bind to a targeted complementary molecule. As potential recognition elements with promising diagnostic and therapeutic applications, aptamers, such as monoclonal antibodies, could provide many treatment and diagnostic options for blood diseases. Aptamers present several superior features over antibodies, including a simple in vitro selection and production, ease of modification and conjugation, high stability, and low immunogenicity. Emerging as promising alternatives to antibodies, aptamers could overcome the present limitations of monoclonal antibody therapy to provide novel diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive treatments for blood diseases. Researchers in several biomedical areas, such as biomarker detection, diagnosis, imaging, and targeted therapy, have widely investigated aptamers, and several aptamers have been developed over the past two decades. One of these is the pegaptanib sodium injection, an aptamer-based therapeutic that functions as an anti-angiogenic medicine, and it is the first aptamer approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for therapeutic use. Several other aptamers are now in clinical trials. In this review, we highlight the current state of aptamers in the clinical trial program and introduce some promising aptamers currently in pre-clinical development for blood diseases.     

Homogeneous assays using aptamers

Aptamers are DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that can bind with high affinity and specificity to a wide range of targets such as proteins, metal ions or pathogenic microorganisms. Soluble aptamers and aptazymes have been used as sensing elements for developing homogeneous assays in a solution phase, the whole sensing process being carried out in a homogeneous solution. Contrary to most conventional heterogeneous assays that are time-consuming and labor-intensive, aptamer-based homogeneous assays are simple, easy-to-perform, rapid and do not require immobilization nor washing steps. To our knowledge, this review is the first entirely dedicated to aptamer-based homogeneous assays. Optical detection appears as the most developed technique. Colorimetry represents the simplest sensing mode that occupies a very important position among aptamer-based assays, involving gold nanoparticle aggregation (with unmodified or aptamer-modified gold NPs), the formation of HRP-mimicking DNAzyme with hemin, dye displacement or interactions with a cationic polymer. Fluorescence that is highly sensitive offers the most developed detection mode. Aptamers can be labeled or not, to give rise to turn-on or usually less sensitive turn-off fluorescent assays. Newly reported and thus less developed non-conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electrochemistry also recently appeared in the literature, thrombin still remains the main detected target. Homogeneous assays based on aptazyme, an aptamer sequence connected to a known ribozyme motif, are also described in this review, involving optical detection, by colorimetry or fluorescence.     

Current Advances in Aptamer-based Biomolecular Recognition and Biological Process Regulation

The interaction between biomolecules with their target ligands plays a great role in regulating biological functions. Aptamers are short oligonucleotide sequences that can specifically recognize target biomolecules via structural complementarity and thus regulate related biological functions. In the past ten years, aptamers have made great progress in target biomolecule recognition, becoming a powerful tool to regulate biological functions. At present, there are many reviews on aptamers applied in biomolecular recognition, but few reviews pay attention to aptamer-based regulation of biological functions. Here, we summarize the approaches to enhancing aptamer affinity and the advancements of aptamers in regulating enzymatic activity, cellular immunity and cellular behaviors. Furthermore, this review discusses the challenges and future perspectives of aptamers in target recognition and biological functions regulation, aiming to provide some promising ideas for future regulation of biomolecular functions in a complex biological environment.     

Cocaine detection by structure-switch aptamer-based capillary zone electrophoresis

Aptamers, which are nucleic acid oligonucleotides that can bind targets with high affinity and specificity, have been widely applied as affinity probes in capillary electrophoresis (CE). Due to relative weak interaction between aptamers and small molecules, the application of aptamer-based CE is still limited in certain compounds. A new strategy that is based on the aptamer structure-switch concept was designed for small molecule detection by a novel CE method. A carboxyfluorescein (fluorescein amidite, FAM) label DNA aptamer was first incubated with partial complementary strand (CS), and then the free aptamer and the aptamer-CS duplex were well separated and determined by metal cation mediated CE/laser-induced fluorescence. When the target was introduced into the incubated sample, the hybridized form was destabilized, resulting in the changes of the fluorescence intensities of the free aptamer and the aptamer-CS duplex. The length of CS was investigated and 12 mer CS showed the best sensitivity for the detection of cocaine. The presented CE-LIF method, which combines the separation power of CE with the specificity of interactions occurring between target, aptamer, and CS, could be a universal detection strategy for other aptamer-specified small molecules.     

Applications of aptamers for chemistry analysis,medicine and food security

Since aptamer and its in vitro selection process called SELEX were independently described by Ellington and Gold in 1990, extensive research has been undertaken and numerous isolated aptamers for various targets have been applied. Aptamers can bind to a wide range of targets that include small organic molecules, inorganic compounds, haptens and even whole cells with high binding affinity and specificity. Aptamers for a wide range of targets have been selected currently. In addition, aptamers are thermo stable and can also be regenerated easily within a few minutes denaturation, which makes them easy to store or handle. These advantages make aptamers extremely suitable for applications based on molecular recognition as analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic tools. In this review, the recent applications of aptamers for chemistry analysis, medicine and food security, along with the future trend will be discussed.