基于适配体亲和毛细管电泳-激光诱导荧光检测的凝血酶分析

以一种高亲和力适配体作为亲和荧光探针,以自建的毛细管电泳-激光诱导荧光(CE-LIF)检测装置为基础,建立了一种高灵敏、快速测定人凝血酶的方法。荧光标记的凝血酶适配体特异性地与凝血酶结合并形成稳定的凝血酶-适配体复合物,采用CE-LIF对复合物进行分离检测,从而测定凝血酶浓度。探讨了盐离子种类及浓度对适配体与凝血酶结合的影响,并在选定的电泳条件下对凝血酶检测的线性范围、检出限和重现性进行了测定。结果表明,盐离子存在的条件下适配体与凝血酶的亲和力降低,不利于两者的结合;人血清溶液中,凝血酶浓度在0.25～10 nmol/L范围内与复合物峰面积具有良好的线性相关性(r20.991),检出限(S/N3)为55.6 pmol/L;精密度和回收率测定结果均能满足分析的要求。     

基于磁珠分离的酶联适配体检测痕量蛋白质的新型比色分析方法

以核酸适配体作为高效专一的识别/传感元件, 构建了一种新型的磁性分离和特异性捕获的检测方法. 两个适配体通过简单的生物素化修饰, 利用其与凝血酶不同位点的高亲和力形成夹心结构, 其中连接适配体的磁珠可捕获蛋白质, 加入另一个适配体及链霉亲和素标记的辣根过氧化物酶后, 通过比色法实现靶蛋白检测. 该法操作简单, 分析时间短, 对凝血酶的线性响应范围为 10~80 nmol/L, 检出限为 10 nmol/L.     

基于微磁珠分离技术的适配体实时定量PCR检测方法

利用适配体的识别能力和可扩增性, 构建了基于微磁珠分离技术的适配体实时定量聚合酶链式反应(PCR)检测方法. 通过微磁珠偶联的互补链与适配体序列之间的碱基配对结合, 有效除去溶液中未与靶分子结合的适配体序列, 采用实时定量PCR技术测定上清液中结合态的适配体序列浓度, 从而间接实现对靶分子的定量检测. 分别选取代表生物大分子和有机小分子的凝血酶和ATP作为检测对象, 验证了该方法的普适性. 研究结果表明, 在获取特异性适配体序列后, 仅需简单优化其互补链序列, 即可对超低含量的凝血酶和ATP进行准确定量, 检出限分别为50 pmol/L和5 μmol/L. 该方法具有同时适用于高特异性和高灵敏度地检测生物大分子和有机小分子的优势.     

基于核酸适配体的化学发光检测腺苷

以羧基磁性微球为分离载体,固定氨基修饰的腺苷适配体,通过腺苷与生物素修饰的报告序列竞争结合氨基适配体,建立了一种化学发光检测生物小分子腺苷的方法。实验优化了磁性微球、氨基适配体、报告序列等参数,发现腺苷浓度在1.0×10-9~1.0×10-4mol/L范围内与CL信号强度减少量呈良好线性关系,最低检出限达1.0×10-9mol/L,重复5次测定0.1 mmol/L腺苷的相对标准偏差为5.0%。方法成功用于实际尿样中腺苷的测定。该法可简单、灵敏、特异性地检测腺苷,有望用于临床诊断、药物分析等领域。     

基于核酸适配体的化学发光检测腺苷

以羧基磁性微球为分离载体,固定氨基修饰的腺苷适配体,通过腺苷与生物素修饰的报告序列竞争结合氨基适配体,建立了一种化学发光检测生物小分子腺苷的方法。实验优化了磁性微球、氨基适配体、报告序列等参数,发现腺苷浓度在1.0×10-9~1.0×10-4 mol/L范围内与CL信号强度减少量呈良好线性关系,最低检出限达1.0×10-9mol/L,重复5次测定0.1 mmol/L腺苷的相对标准偏差为5.0%。方法成功用于实际尿样中腺苷的测定。该法可简单、灵敏、特异性地检测腺苷,有望用于临床诊断、药物分析等领域。     

基于适体识别及杂交链式反应放大信号检测细胞外囊泡

利用在细胞外囊泡表面高度表达的特定蛋白作为靶标识别细胞外囊泡,可用于检测癌症相关的细胞外囊泡。基于此,提出了一种同时捕获和定量细胞外囊泡的检测方法。将核酸适配体修饰在单分散聚苯乙烯微球上,可特异性捕获细胞外囊泡;通过适配体触发的杂交链式反应放大荧光信号,可提高检测灵敏度。优化条件下,将本方法用于检测MCF-7细胞衍生的细胞外囊泡,体系的荧光强度变化值与细胞外囊泡浓度的对数在1.7×10³～1.7×10⁶ particle/μL范围内呈良好的线性关系,相关系数(R²)为0.9984,相对标准偏差(RSD)为1.6%。     

基于ZrO2/AuNPs膜修饰电极的适配体传感器用于凝血酶的检测研究

提出了一种简单、无标记、可再生的电化学方法研究适配体和凝血酶之间的相互作用，采用亚甲基蓝(MB)做电化学指示剂，氧化锆(ZrO₂)-金纳米粒子(AuNPs)涂层修饰玻碳电极(GCE)。利用金-硫键及杂交化学反应，捕获探针和适配体依次修饰到电极表面，亚甲基蓝插入到DNA上，形成适配体传感器。电极表面的DNA双链在凝血酶的存在下发生解旋，MB在DNA上的吸附量随之减少，峰电流也显著降低，达到检测凝血酶的目的。实验显示，凝血酶在20 pmol/L～150 nmol/L的浓度范围内，峰电流的减小量随凝血酶浓度的升高而增大，检出限为20.6 fmol/L。该方法简单、灵敏、选择性好，并成功用于实际样品检测。     

基于适配体的实时定量PCR检测血清中的人促红细胞生成素

基于适配体的高特异识别能力和可扩增性,构建了经磁分离后实时定量PCR检测重组人促红细胞生成素-α(rHuEPO -α)的新方法;针对实际血清样品中高丰度蛋白质等的干扰,利用碱基互补配对原理设计合成了分别与适配体两端引物区结合的互补链,通过凝胶迁移阻滞分析(EMSA)筛选出最佳的互补链,并将生物素化的互补链连接到链霉亲和素磁珠上,以此为探针捕获复杂基质中形成的待测复合物.研究结果表明,结合该样品前处理策略,该方法可成功地应用于正常人血清中的rHuEPO -α定量检测,检出限为25pmol/L,线性范围为50 pmol/L～ 50 nmol/L.     

采用纳米金和荧光标记的适配体检测凝血酶

将荧光染料分子标记的含29个碱基的可识别凝血酶的DNA适配体非特异吸附到纳米金表面,荧光发生猝灭,加入凝血酶后,凝血酶与适配体特异性结合,使适配体空间结构发生改变,荧光染料分子远离纳米金表面,荧光恢复,因此可以实现对凝血酶的检测。实验结果表明,这种检测方法简便、快速、特异性强,检出限为0.54 nmol/L(对应样品体积为200μL)。     

基于滚环合成的聚分子信标用于 凝血酶的靶向检测

采用滚环扩增(RCA)合成得到的DNA长链打开带适配体的分子信标, 由于RCA长链上带有多个与分子信标(MB)互补的重复序列, 其打开分子信标的能力比单一互补短链提高了上百倍. 所形成的聚多价分子信标组装体, 在分子信标浓度相同的情况下, 打开后的荧光强度也大幅上升; 并且由于组装体上多价适配体的存在, 聚分子信标对凝血酶的靶向能力显著增强. 实验结果表明, 聚分子信标结合凝血酶后, 其荧光信号与凝血酶浓度呈线性关系, 检测灵敏度达到0.2 nmol/L, 该体系的构建有利于实现对凝血酶的高灵敏、 特异性检测.     

Highly sensitive electrochemical label-free aptasensor based on dual electrocatalytic amplification of Pt-AuNPs and HRP

In this work, a label-free electrochemical aptamer-based sensor (aptasensor) was constructed on account of the direct immobilization of redox probes on an electrode surface. For this proposed aptasensor, a gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)-coated electrode was firstly modified with redox probes-nickel hexacyanoferrates nanoparticles (NiHCFNPs) through chemisorption and electrostatic adsorption. Then, platinum-gold alloy nanoparticles (Pt-AuNPs) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were respectively assembled onto the modified electrode surface, which formed the multilayer films for amplifying the electrochemical signal of NiHCFNPs and immobilizing thiolated thrombin aptamers (TBAs). In the presence of target thrombin, the TBA on the multilayer could catch the thrombin onto the electrode surface, which resulted in a barrier for electro-transfer, leading to the decrease of the electrochemical signal of NiHCFNPs amplified by the Pt-AuNPs and HRP toward H(2)O(2). The proposed method avoided the redox probes labeling process, increased the amount of redox probes, and further amplified the electrochemical signal. Thus, the approach showed a high sensitivity and a wider linearity to thrombin in the range between 0.01 nM and 50 nM with a detection limit of 6.3 pM.     

Sensitive Electrochemical Aptasensor for Thrombin Detection Based on Graphene Served as Platform and Graphene Oxide as Enhancer

A sensitive electrochemical aptasensor was developed with conductive graphene served as platform and inert graphene oxide (GO) as enhancer. An electrodeposited nano-Au layer was firstly formed on conductive graphene modified glass carbon electrode surface for further immobilizing of electrochemical redox probe hexacyanoferrates nanoparticles (NiHCFNPs). Subsequently, another nano-Au layer was formed for immobilizing of thrombin aptamer (TBA). In the presence of thrombin, the TBA on the electrode surface could bind with thrombin, which made a barrier for electrons and inhibited the electro-transfer, resulting in the decreased electrochemical signals of NiHCFNPs. Owing to the non-conductivity property of graphene oxide, further decreased electrochemical signals of NiHCFNPs could be obtained via the sandwich reaction with GO-labeled TBA. According to the signal changes before the thrombin recognition and after sandwich reaction, trace detection of thrombin could be achieved. As a result, the proposed approach showed a high sensitivity and a wider linearity to thrombin in the range from 0.005 nM to 50 nM with a detection limit of 1 pM.     

An exonuclease-assisted amplification electrochemical aptasensor of thrombin coupling “signal on/off” strategy

In this work, a dual-signaling electrochemical aptasensor based on exonuclease-catalyzed target recycling was developed for thrombin detection. The proposed aptasensor coupled “signal-on” and “signal-off” strategies. As to the construction of the aptasensor, ferrocene (Fc) labeled thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) could perfectly hybridize with the methylene blue (MB) modified thiolated capture DNA to form double-stranded structure, hence emerged two different electrochemical signals. In the presence of thrombin, TBA could form a G-quadruplex structure with thrombin, leading to the dissociation of TBA from the duplex DNA and capture DNA formed hairpin structure. Exonuclease could selectively digest single-stranded TBA in G-quadruplex structure and released thrombin to realize target recycling. As a consequence, the electrochemical signal of MB enhanced significantly, which realized “signal on” strategy, meanwhile, the deoxidization peak current of Fc decreased distinctly, which realized “signal off” strategy. The employment of exonuclease and superposition of two signals significantly improved the sensitivity of the aptasensor. In this way, an aptasensor with high sensitivity, good stability and selectivity for quantitative detection of thrombin was constructed, which exhibited a good linear range from 5 pM to 50 nM with a detection limit of 0.9 pM (defined as S/N = 3). In addition, this design strategy could be applied to the detection of other proteins and small molecules.     

A Hairpin Electrochemical Aptasensor for Sensitive and Specific Detection of Thrombin Based on Homogenous Target Recognition

An electrochemical aptasensor was developed for sensitive and specific detection of thrombin by combining homogenous recognition strategy and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) amplification. Streptavidin‐alkaline phosphatase was used as reporter molecule. Compared with the traditional hairpin aptasensor monitoring the distance of the redox molecule from the electrode surface, the proposed aptasensor successfully overcome the limitations of distance and improved the stability and high affinity of the aptamer hairpin through homogenous recognition, which enhanced the sensitivity and selectivity of the sensors effectively. Additionally, AuNPs were employed to increase the active area and conductivity of the electrode, thus, improving the sensitivity of the aptasensor. As a result, the designed thrombin detection sensor obtained a lower detection limit of 0.52 pM in buffer and 6.9 pM in blood serum.     

Label-free fluorescent detection of thrombin using G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme as sensing platform

We report herein a label-free and sensitive fluorescent method for detection of thrombin using a G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme as the sensing platform. The thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA) is able to bind hemin to form the G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme, and thrombin can significantly enhance the activity of the G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme. The G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme is found to effectively catalyze the H(2)O(2)-mediated oxidation of thiamine, giving rise to fluorescence emission. This allows us to utilize the H(2)O(2)-thiamine fluorescent system for the quantitative analysis of thrombin. The assay shows a linear toward thrombin concentration in the range of 0.01-0.12 nM. The present limit of detection for thrombin is 1 pM, and the sensitivity for analyzing thrombin is improved by about 10,000-fold as compared with the reported colorimetric counterpart. The work also demonstrates that thiamine is an excellent substrate for the fluorescence assay using the G-quadruplex-based DNAzyme as the sensing platform.     

Enzyme-free Recycling Amplification-based Sensitive Electrochemical Thrombin Aptasensor

In this work, an enzyme-free recycling amplification-based sensitive electrochemical thrombin aptasensor using catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) and bisferrocene was proposed for electrochemical beacon. Thrombin triggered the CHA reaction that in turn formed a number of double-stranded complexes,which are fixed on the surface of the gold electrode through potential-assisted Au−S deposition, and a large number of labeled bisferrocene are placed close to the gold electrode to generate electrochemical signal. The linear range of the electrochemical sensor was 0.25 pM-2.5 nM for thrombin with detection limit of 0.18 pM. This sensor can be employed to monitor the thrombin in human serum samples.     

Electrochemical Aptasensor Based on ZnO Modified Gold Electrode

We developed an electrochemical thrombin aptasensor based on ZnO nanorods functionalized by electrostatically adsorption of 30‐mer DNA aptamers. The sensor surface was characterized by AFM and SEM. The surface layer assembling was optimized using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) with ferricyanide ions as redox markers. The peak current of the ferricyanide and the charge transfer resistance gradually decreased with increasing concentration of thrombin in the range from 3 pM to 100 nM due to formation of aptamer‐thrombin complexes and slower diffusion of the marker ions through the surface layer. At optimal conditions, a limit of detection (LOD) of 3 pM for EIS measurements and 10 pM for CV response was calculated from the S/N=3.     

A novel fluorescent aptasensor for thrombin detection: using poly(m-phenylenediamine) rods as an effective sensing platform

In this communication, we develop a novel fluorescent aptasensor for thrombin detection with the use of poly(m-phenylenediamine) (PMPD) rods as an effective sensing platform. This aptasensor exhibits extraordinarily high sensitivity with a detection limit as low as 100 pM and excellent selectivity.     

Apoferritin protein nanoparticles dually labeled with aptamer and horseradish peroxidase as a sensing probe for thrombin detection

A novel and ultrasensitive sandwich-type electrochemical aptasensor has been developed for the detection of thrombin, based on dual signal-amplification using HRP and apoferritin. Core/shell Fe₃O₄/Au magnetic nanoparticles (AuMNPs) loading aptamer1 (Apt1) was used as recognition elements, and apoferritin dually labeled with Aptamer2 (Apt2) and HRP was used as a detection probe. Sandwich-type complex, Apt1/thrombin/Apt2–apoferritin NPs–HRP was formed by the affinity reactions between AuMNPs–Apt1, thrombin, and Apt2–apoferritin–HRP. The complex was anchored on a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE). Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) was used to monitor the electrode response. The proposed aptasensor yielded a linear current response to thrombin concentrations over a broad range of 0.5–100 pM with a detection limit of 0.07 pM (S/N = 3). The detection signal was amplified by using apoferritin and HRP. This nanoparticle-based aptasensor offers a new method for rapid, sensitive, selective, and inexpensive quantification of thrombin, and offers a promising potential in protein detection and disease diagnosis.     

Highly Sensitive Voltammetric Thrombin Aptamer Sensor Based on the Synergistic Effect of Doping/Depositing Gold Nanoparticles in Polydopamine Film

A highly sensitive square‐wave voltammetric thrombin (TB) aptamer sensor was developed using functional polydopamine (PD) film by doping and depositing gold nanoparticles into the bulk and the surface of PD. The aptamer sensor was fabricated by immobilizing a thiolated TB‐binding aptamer (TBA) on the AuNPs‐doped/deposited PD film. AuNPs‐supported methylene blue labels were used for the detection of human α‐TB. Under the optimized conditions, the aptamer sensor’s dynamic range and the detection limit were determined to be 2.0 pM–50 nM and 0.97±0.06 pM, respectively. Finally, the proposed aptamer sensor was successfully examined in human serum samples and satisfactory results were obtained.