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High-sensitivity fluorescence detection for lung cancer CYFRA21-1 DNA based on accumulative hybridization of quantum
Ling Yang1,2, Ping'an Ma1,2, Xiaorui Chen1
1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. jlin@ciac.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Sensitive detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in vitro has attracted growing attention owing to its potential application in diagnostics of cancer. In this study, we synthesized hydrophilic AgInS2@ZnS core-shell quantum dot nanocrystals and magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles, and then the ctDNA triggered hybridization chain reaction was used to detect the CYFRA21-1 DNA associated with lung cancer. In the presence of CYFRA21-1 DNA, three hairpin structures were activated to turn on successively, resulting in the accumulation of quantum dots and eliciting considerable changes of the fluorescence signal. Compared with the conventional fluorescence detection, Fe3O4 provides magnetic adsorption properties and a large surface area for immobilizing and aggregating quantum dot nanoparticles attached to single-stranded DNA. The concentration of CYFRA21-1 is closely related to the number of quantum dots remaining after magnetic adsorption, which provides a promising approach for ctDNA quantification.
