DNA Hydrogelation-Enhanced Imaging Ellipsometry for Sensing Exosomal microRNAs with a Tunable Detection Range
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 92 (17), 11953-11959
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02345
Abstract
Conventional imaging ellipsometry-based biosensing faces the challenges of poor sensitivity and narrow dynamic range, especially for some small molecules such as microRNA. Given that detection of various exosomal miRNAs with tunable range could provide high-precision disease information and improve the accuracy of diagnosis, a sensitive imaging ellipsometry sensor was introduced to improve sensitivity with a tunable detection range by terminus-regulated DNA hydrogelation. Tetrahedron DNA probes with complementary sequence to the target miRNA were used as biorecognition elements to form DNA hydrogelation. This DNA hydrogelation was formed by template-independent and isothermal amplification on the Au film. Due to its high dielectric constant, DNA hydrogelation structure could be used for improving the sensitivity of imaging ellipsometry significantly. Importantly, by changing the cycle of the DNA hydrogelation amplification, this strategy showed a tunable detection range from fM to nM for miRNA with a limit of detection of 0.2 fM for let-7a, 10 fM for miR-375, and 40 pM for miR-21. Furthermore, it also performed satisfactorily for the miRNA sensing in 50% human serum and 50% human plasma. This DNA hydrogelation-enhanced imaging ellipsometry could broaden the applications of conventional imaging ellipsometry in biosensing and provide a sensitive method for sensing miRNAs at different abundances.Funding Information
- Natural Science Foundation of?Hunan Province (2016JJ1008)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21375034, 21675047, 21735002)
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