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Ryuji Kawano1, Toshihisa Osaki, Hirotaka Sasaki
1Bio Microsystems Project, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Kawasaki City, Japan.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 11, 2011
Abstract:
This paper describes a methodology for the rapid and highly selective detection of cocaine using a membrane protein channel combined with a DNA aptamer. The DNA aptamer recognizes the cocaine molecule with high selectivity. We successfully detected a low concentration of cocaine (300 ng/mL, the drug test cutoff limit) within 60 s using a biological nanopore embedded in a microchip.
