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Superquenching acridinium ester chemiluminescence by gold nanoparticles for DNA detection
Qinfeng Xu1, Jing Liu, Zhike He
1Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Abstract:
It was found that the chemiluminescence of acridinium ester (AE) was quenched effectively by gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with Stern-Volmer constants approaching 10(10) M(-1), which was exploited to realize sequence-specific DNA detection based on the preferential absorption of AE-tagged single-strand probe on unmodified AuNPs over the hybrids of probe and target DNA.

