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Single quantum dot-based nanosensor for rapid and sensitive detection of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
Li-Juan Wang1, Ming-Li Luo, Qianyi Zhang
1College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China. cyzhang@sdnu.edu.cn tangb@sdnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We developed a simple and rapid method for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) assay on the basis of the polymerization-directed exonuclease-assisted construction of a single quantum dot (QD)-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) nanosensor. This method is very sensitive with a detection limit as low as 1 × 10-6 U μL-1, and it can be used for the screening of TDT inhibitors and accurate quantification of TdT activity even in 5 cancer cells.
