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A Method for Selecting Structure-switching Aptamers Applied to a Colorimetric Gold Nanoparticle Assay
Published on: February 28, 2015
A gold nanoparticle-based strategy for label-free and colorimetric screening of DNA triplex binders
Cuie Chen1, Guangtao Song, Xinjian Yang
1Laboratory of Chemical Biology and State Key laboratory of Rare Earth Resources Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, PR China.
Abstract:
A label-free colorimetric assay, using non-crosslinking AuNP aggregation, has been developed for the screening of specific triplex DNA binders. The relative binding affinities can be simultaneously determined. Our novel assay is simple in design and fast in operation, avoiding either AuNPs modification or oligonucleotide labeling, and easy to implement for visual detection. This strategy may offer a new approach for developing low cost, sensitive and high-throughput screening platform that is likely to be highly useful in a wide range of applications.

