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Fullerenol as a photoelectrochemical nanoprobe for discrimination and ultrasensitive detection of amplification-free single-stranded DNA

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Traditional approaches for nucleic acids detection require prior amplification of target genes, while nanomaterials-aided DNA biosensors are very magnificent but still suffer from the nanomaterial acquirement and limited sensitivity (above picomolar level). Herein, fullerenol C60(OH)25, a representative fullerene derivative, was employed as a photoelectrochemical (PEC) nanoprobe to achieve discrimination and ultrasensitive detection of amplification-free single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) down to sub-femtomolar level. The bonded hydroxyl groups with intense density endowed fullerenol to directly recognize and capture ssDNA-AuNPs via the hydrogen bonding interactions (H-bonds), leading to a sharply decreased photocurrent with quenching efficiency up to 85%, which could be attributed to the photo-generated electrons on the conduction band of fullerenol (-4.66 eV) preferentially migrating to the Fermi level of AuNPs (-5.1 eV) rather than the electrode. In the presence of target gene (mutant human p53 gene fragment), the H-bonds between fullerenol and ssDNA were competitively depleted during the base pairing process of complete hybridization between ssDNA and target, making double-stranded DNA-AuNPs (dsDNA-AuNPs) depart so that the photocurrent powerfully recovered. On basis of the photocurrent variation before and after target introduction, this proposed simple, rapid and ultrasensitive PEC biosensor for amplification-free target gene detection illustrated a wide liner ranged from 1 fM to 100 pM and a detection limit of 0.338 fM. This work presented an ingenious strategy for the discrimination and ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids, and the well-designed PEC biosensor was further conducive to the impetus of clinic diagnostics.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33220534/

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