Signal-amplification and real-time fluorescence anisotropy detection of apyrase by carbon nanoparticle

Jinhua Liu, Jing Yu, Jianrong Chen, Ronghua Yang, Kaimin Shih

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Abstract

Carbon nanomaterial combined with aptamer has been developed as an efficient bioanalytical method in sensor design. Herein, depending on carbon nanoparticle (cCNP)-enhanced fluorescence anisotropy (FA), a novel aptamer-based sensor (aptasensor) enabling signal-amplification and real-time detection of apyrase is reported. The foundation of our sensor design based on ATP-aptamer(P) can be adsorbed on the surface of cCNPs, resulting in the increase of FA due to the mass of cCNPs, and P-ATP complex has weak binding ability to cCNPs with minimal change of FA. Apyrase, being an integral membrane protein, can hydrolyze ATP and make P-ATP complex disassemble, and thus lead to the increasing of FA. Therefore, this approach is demonstrated to be a novel candidate for the detection of apyrase, with high sensitivity and selectivity. The linear dynamic range for the concentrations of apyrase is between 0.1 and 0.5 U/μL along with a detection limit of 0.05 U/μL. Furthermore, these results indicated that our design is a flexible and sensitive method for biomolecule analysis, which makes it promising for practical biomolecule analyses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)206-211
Number of pages6
JournalMaterials Science and Engineering C
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Aptamer
  • Apyrase
  • Carbon nanoparticle
  • Fluorescence anisotropy
  • Sensor

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