基于核酸适体的电化学生物传感器*

核酸适体是一类体外筛选的、可与目标分子高效、高特异亲合的RNA或DNA寡核苷酸片段,与常规识别分子（如抗体等）相比,核酸适体作为一类新型识别分子具有明显特色和优势,已被广泛应用于生物传感等分子识别和应用研究领域。本文就基于核酸适体的电化学生物传感器（标记型和非标记型）的近期进展作简要评述,包括适体简介、标记型（“信号衰减”型、“信号增强”型、酶标记型和纳米粒子标记型）和非标记型电化学适体生物传感器等内容。     

面向活体分析的核酸适体电化学生物传感研究

化学是生命活动的物质基础.在活体层次上精准获取生理活性分子的分布和含量的变化规律对于了解和研究生理和病理过程具有重要的意义.电化学方法,特别是基于核酸适体的电化学生物传感器,由于兼具高特异性识别、检测对象广以及易于微型化等优良特性,已成为复杂生理环境中实现快速、灵敏和高选择性检测的有效工具.本文综述了核酸适体电化学生物传感器的设计以及在活体分析中的应用,并对其未来发展趋势进行了展望.     

基于核酸适体的电化学生物传感研究

核酸适体是一类经由指数富集的配体系统进化（SELEX）技术在体外筛选获得的单链寡核苷酸片段,由于具有可人工批量合成、价格低廉、易于功能化修饰、特异性强、亲和力高、免疫原性低、批间差异小、热稳定性好等优良特性,在分析化学、疾病治疗以及生物医学研究等诸多领域备受关注。结合代表性案例,该文综述了核酸适体在电化学生物传感领域的应用。首先简要概述了核酸适体及电化学适体传感器的特点,分类阐述了电化学适体传感器在小分子化合物、蛋白质、外泌体、循环肿瘤细胞（CTCs）以及病原微生物检测中的应用,并重点介绍了相关检测方法的原理、分析特性以及所应用的信号放大策略,最后对电化学适体传感器的发展进行了展望。     

一种胶质瘤细胞的核酸适体电化学阻抗传感器

本文基于交流阻抗谱技术发展了一种新型的高灵敏核酸适体传感器用于胶质瘤细胞的检测。该传感器通过巯基在金表面的混合自组装,将腱肽蛋白c的核酸适体探针固定于金电极表面。基于腱肽蛋白在胶质瘤细胞表面的高表达,利用细胞与电极表面核酸适体探针的特异性生物识别对铁氰化物电化学阻抗的抑制,建立了胶质瘤细胞检测的核酸适体传感器。考察并优化了核酸适体/巯基丙酸混合自组装比例、反应时间、温度和离子强度等对传感器性能有显著影响的分析条件,结果表明该传感器的阻抗响应与胶质瘤细胞浓度呈线性关系,线性范围为100~50 000 cell/mL,其检出限可达50 cell/mL。     

非标记夹心式电化学可卡因适体传感器的研究

设计一种基于双链核酸适体的非标记夹心式电化学适体传感器, 建立简单、高灵敏度的可卡因分析方法. 首先将末端巯基修饰的捕获适体探针组装在金电极表面, 构建可卡因适体传感器. 该传感器与目标分子可卡因和部分互补的检测适体探针作用后, 在电极表面形成适体/可卡因/适体复合物. 以六氨合钌为信号分子, 基于单链适体和适体/可卡因/适体复合物对六氨合钌吸附量的不同, 通过计时电量法检测电极表面吸附六氨合钌的还原电量, 进行可卡因的分析检测. 在优化的条件下, 还原电量与可卡因浓度在1～50 mmol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系, 检出限为0.1 mmol/L. 用于血清中可卡因的检测, 回收率为96.4%～104%. 该方法简单, 灵敏度高, 可作为一种通用型的适体传感器模型.     

基于电化学双共价键法构建可再生高灵敏的电化学发光适体传感器检测可卡因

基于点击化学和重氮盐法的双共价键固定化方法,制备了一种高灵敏、可重复使用的电化学发光(ECL)适体传感器. 该方法以可卡因为分析物,以可卡因适体为分子识别物质,以钌联吡啶衍生物为ECL信号物质. 采用电化学方法在玻碳电极表面重氮化叠氮苯胺,通过点击反应连接炔基功能化的钌联吡啶衍生物标记可卡因适体,获得适体传感器. 该传感器在共反应剂存在下,产生弱的电化学发光信号,可卡因存在下,电化学发光信号增加. 基于此,建立了“信号增强”型检测可卡因的电化学发光分析新方法. 电化学发光信号与可卡因浓度在0.1 nmol·L^-1 ~ 100 nmol·L^-1范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限为60 pmol·L^-1. 该传感器具有良好的稳定性,可重复多次使用. 该双共价键法在构建ECL传感器方面具有很好的应用前景.     

DNA电化学生物传感器在重金属快速检测中的研究进展

DNA电化学生物传感器是一类以DNA为敏感元件或检测对象,将核酸分子特异性识别过程中产生的信号通过换能器转化为电信号,从而实现对目标物定性或定量检测的传感器,具有响应速度快、操作简单、选择性好、灵敏度高、检测成本低等优点,实现了多领域中重金属、真菌毒素、核酸等的快速实时检测.介绍了 DNA电化学生物传感器的组装单元、电...     

基于电化学生物传感器的重金属离子检测研究进展

电化学生物传感器是基于抗原抗体、酶、核酸适配体、蛋白质、细胞等各种生物成分建立的电化学方法,由于这些生物成分具有强的特异性,决定了电化学生物传感器具有高选择性。同时该方法还具有便捷快速、灵敏、操作简单等优点,已经被广泛应用于污染物重金属离子的检测,并具有良好的应用前景。本文综述了近年来基于各种生物成分的电化学生物传感器在重金属离子检测中的应用,并对该领域未来的发展趋势做了展望。     

赭曲霉毒素A的电化学适体传感检测

赭曲霉毒素A （OTA）是一类主要由曲霉属和青霉属等真菌产生的小分子有毒次级代谢产物,广泛存在于食品、农产品和动物饲料中,具有强烈肝毒性、肾毒性、致畸和致突变等作用,亦是ⅡB类致癌物。鉴于OTA污染的普遍性和危害性,本文就目前OTA的常用检测方法进行概述和比较,重点阐述新型电化学适体传感技术在OTA检测方面的相关应用。全面综述了构型变换型、亲合型以及混合型OTA电化学适体传感器的原理、优缺点及最新研究进展,并对OTA电化学适体传感器的未来发展方向提出展望,为电化学适体传感器的深入研究与应用提供参考。     

基于核酸外切酶Ⅰ催化的核酸降解反应构建乳腺癌细胞电化学传感器

基于核酸外切酶I选择性消化单链核酸的特点,使用MCF-7细胞表面过量表达的肿瘤标志蛋白MUC1的适体,构建了一种灵敏检测乳腺癌细胞的新型电化学传感器。核酸适体链与乳腺癌细胞MCF-7表面过量表达的肿瘤标志蛋白MUC1的结合会阻碍其与互补核酸探针链的杂交,所以电极表面固定的未杂交的核酸探针单链就会被外切酶I选择性消化从而失去末端的亚甲基蓝信号分子。因此,通过检测电化学信号的变化,此传感器在103~106cell/mL细胞浓度范围内线性检测乳腺癌细胞MCF-7,检出限为330 cell/mL,具有高度特异性,可以有效区分对照细胞胰岛β细胞。     

Ultrasensitive Fluorescence Polarization Aptasensors Based on Exonuclease Signal Amplification and Polystyrene Nanoparticle Amplification

Here, we combine T7 exonuclease (T7 Exo) signal amplification and polystyrene nanoparticle (PS NP) amplification to develop novel fluorescence polarization (FP) aptasensors. The binding of a target/open aptamer hairpin complex or a target/single‐stranded aptamer complex to dye‐labeled DNA bound to PS NPs, or the self‐assembly of two aptamer subunits (one of them labeled with a dye) into a target/aptamer complex on PS NPs leads to the cyclic T7 Exo‐catalyzed digestion of the dye‐labeled DNA or the dye‐labeled aptamer subunit. This results in a substantial decrease in the FP value for the amplified sensing process. Our newly developed aptasensors exhibit a sensitivity five orders of magnitude higher than that of traditional homogeneous aptasensors and a high specificity for the target molecules. These distinct advantages of our proposed assay protocol make it a generic platform for the design of amplified aptasensors for ultrasensitive detection of various target molecules.     

Amplified fluorescence polarization aptasensors based on structure-switching-triggered nanoparticles enhancement for bioassays

We have developed an amplified fluorescence polarization aptasensor that relies on aptamer structure-switching-triggered nanoparticles (NPs) enhancement for biomolecules detection. This new type of assay exhibits higher detection sensitivity over traditional homogeneous aptasensors by two orders of magnitude and high specificity for target molecules.     

Application of split aptamers-based sensors for the detection of small moleculesEI北大核心CSCD

The split aptamers (SPAs)-based sensors is a novel kind of biosensors, assembled by two or more oligonucleotides in the presence of specific targets. To be successfully assembled, the sensor has to be induced by a specific target, which can aviod false-positive results and thus has a high degree of specificity and sensitivity. SPAs are suitable for the detection of various targets and show great advantages and potential in the development of aptasensors, especially for the detection of small molecules. However, the development and application of SPA-based sensors still remain challenging. Currently, the major difficulty is how to improve the stability of SPA-target complexes. Herein, this review summarizes the SPAs, strategies of splitting aptamers, and their applications in the detection of small molecules, aiming to provide new ideas for the development of novel, sensitive, and specific aptasensors. © 2023, Youke Publishing Co.,Ltd. All rights reserved.     

Aptamer binding assays for proteins: The thrombin example—A review

Experimentally selected single-stranded DNA and RNA aptamers are able to bind to specific target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Many analytical methods make use of affinity binding between the specific targets and their aptamers. In the development of these methods, thrombin is the most frequently used target molecule to demonstrate the proof-of-principle. This paper critically reviews more than one hundred assays that are based on aptamer binding to thrombin. This review focuses on homogeneous binding assays, electrochemical aptasensors, and affinity separation techniques. The emphasis of this review is placed on understanding the principles and unique features of the assays. The principles of most assays for thrombin are applicable to the determination of other molecular targets.     

Development of a Wavelength-Shifting Fluorescent Module for the Adenosine Aptamer Using Photostable Cyanine Dyes

DNA-based aptamers are commonly used recognition elements in biosensors for a range of target molecules. Here, the development of a wavelength-shifting optical module for a DNA-based adenosine-binding aptamer is described. It applies the combination of two photostable cyanine-styryl dyes as covalent modifications. This energy-transfer pair is postsynthetically attached to oligonucleotides via a copper(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition by two structurally different approaches: 1) as nucleotide modifications at the 2′-position of uridines and 2) as nucleotide substitutions using (S)-amino-1,2-propanediol as acyclic linker between the phosphodiester bridges. Both dyes exhibit a remarkable photostability. A library of DNA aptamers consisting of different combinations of the two dyes in diagonal orientations were evaluated by their emission color contrast as readout. Further optimization led to aptasensors with improved fluorescent readout as compared with previously reported aptasensors. This approach described is synthetically facile using simple propargylated phosphoramidites as DNA building blocks. As such, this approach could be applied for other dyes and other chemical/biological applications.     

Single-walled carbon nanotubes chemiresistor aptasensors for small molecules: picomolar level detection of adenosine triphosphate

Here we report single walled-carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)-based chemiresistor aptasensors for highly sensitive and selective detection of weakly or uncharged molecules using the displacement format. As a proof-of-concept we demonstrate the detection of ATP, a small weakly charged molecule, by displacement of the ssDNA anti-ATP aptamer hybridized to a small capture oligonucleotide covalently attached on SWNTs, with picomolar sensitivity and selectivity over GTP.     

Aptamers: The Powerful Molecular Tools for Virus Detection

Aptamers are short single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides selected by the technique of systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX). Aptamers have been demonstrated to bind various targets from small-molecule to cells or even tissues in the way of antibodies. Thus, they are called chemical antibodies. We summarize and evaluate recent developments in aptamer-based sensors (for short aptasensors) for virus detection in this review. These aptasensors are mainly classified into optical and electronic aptasensors based on the type of transducer. Nowadays, the smartphone has become the most widely used mobile device with billions of users worldwide. Considering the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, smartphone-based aptasensors for a portable and point-of-care test (POCT) of COVID-19 detection will be of great importance in the future.     

Nicking enzyme based homogeneous aptasensors for amplification detection of protein

A simple and highly sensitive homogeneous aptasensor is developed, which relies on nicking enzyme. The sensitivity of this newly proposed aptasensor is about three orders of magnitude higher than that of traditional homogeneous aptasensors. Furthermore, it is capable of detecting target protein in real samples.     

Advantages of Carbon Nanomaterials in Electrochemical Aptasensors for Food Analysis

Electrochemical aptasensors appear as promising tools in food analysis, able to provide sensitive, fast and cost‐effective analysis, with the added advantage of portability. Carbon nanomaterials and in particular carbon nanotubes and graphene are among the nanomaterials most often used to build electrochemical aptasensors due to their good electrical conductivity, large surface area and multiple functionalisation possibilities. This review aims to give an overview of the types of carbon nanomaterials and their composites which have been used to enhance the performance of electrochemical aptasensors. Examples are detailed for the biosensors which were tested with real food samples. In these aptasensors, carbon nanomaterials have played different roles, from facilitating the immobilization of high amounts of aptamer and enhancing the electroactive area of the sensors to roles as nanocarrier for signaling probes in amplification schemes or even as electroactive probes generating the output signal. The survey of recent literature shows a positive evolution towards increased aptasensor testing with food samples. However, many challenges remain related to the better characterization of nanomaterials used, clarifying the roles of specific components in multi‐component nanocomposites and widening the types of food matrices and analytes tested with the aptasensors. Although we are still far from knowing when these novel tools will replace classic analytical methods in food analysis, carbon nanomaterials will certainly continue to play an important role in the design of future electrochemical aptasensors for food analysis.     

New trends in affinity sensing: aptamers for ligand binding

Aptamers are artificial nucleic acid ligands that can be generated against amino acids, drugs, proteins and other molecules. They are isolated from complex libraries of synthetic nucleic acids by an iterative process of adsorption, recovery and amplification. This review described the in vitro process to obtain aptamers (SELEX). It mentions the main characteristics of these molecules (i.e. affinity, specificity and stability). Moreover, it discusses advantages over antibodies. It reports potential applications of aptamers in analytical and diagnostic assays as biocomponents of biosensors (aptasensors) and allosteric ribozymes (aptazymes).