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Detection of Bacteria Using Fluorogenic DNAzymes
Published on: May 28, 2012
Colorimetric sensing by using allosteric-DNAzyme-coupled rolling circle amplification and a peptide nucleic
1Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 11, 2009
Abstract:
Target detection by the naked eye: The action of an RNA-cleaving allosteric DNAzyme in response to ligand binding was coupled to a rolling circle amplification process to generate long single-stranded DNA molecules for colorimetric sensing (see scheme). Upon hybridization of the resulting DNA with a complementary PNA sequence in the presence of a duplex-binding dye, the color of the dye changed from blue to purple.

