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MicroRNA Amplification and Recognition through Locked-nucleic-acid In situ Hybridization as A Novel Detection and Quantification Method
Published on: October 7, 2025
Detection of microRNAs using toehold-initiated rolling circle amplification and fluorescence resonance energy
Kaili Liang1, Hui Wang1, Ping Li1
1College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, PR China.
Abstract:
Detection of microRNAs (miRNAs) in cells improves our understanding of their physiological functions and facilitates exploration of their roles diseases. The toehold-mediated strand displacement reaction initiates rolling circle amplification (RCA) to achieve signal amplification of the specific miRNA; This process is named as toehold-initiated RCA (TIRCA). The product of TIRCA was ligated to two DNA probes, which were modified with 6-carboxyfluorescein and carboxytetramethylrhodamine, respectively. Qualitative detection of miRNAs was successfully achieved by combining the fluorescence aggregation enhancement effect with fluorescence resonance energy transfer generated by the proximity of the two fluorescent dyes. Thus, this approach helps us analyze the roles of miRNAs in human disease more accurately.
