Abstract − Analytical Sciences, 34(2), 149 (2018).
A Thioflavin T-induced G-Quadruplex Fluorescent Biosensor for Target DNA Detection
Xiao Fang ZHANG, Hong Mei XU, Lei HAN, Nian Bing LI, and Hong Qun LUO
Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
The detection of disease-related DNA is of great significance for early and accurate diagnosis and therapy. In this work, we successfully achieved the sensitive detection of target DNA based on a thioflavin T (ThT)-induced G-quadruplex fluorescent biosensor. ThT, a water-soluble fluorescent dye, can induce G-rich sequences to form G-quadruplexes and obtain an obviously enhanced fluorescence. In this work, it was employed to construct a biosensor for the detection of HIV. When the target HIV existed, the hairpin DNA probes would be opened in succession and release the completely exposed G-rich sequence to combine with ThT. The simple and rapid biosensor performed satisfactory selectivity; it also exhibited sensitivity with a detection limit of 2.4 nM. With good performance in human serum, we believe that this optical biosensor has the potential to be applied to the practical detection of target DNA.
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