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A Novel ECL Sensing System for Ultrahigh Sensitivity miRNA-21 Detection Based on Catalytic Hairpin Assembly Cascade
Jingxian Li1, Ren Cai1, Weihong Tan1,2,3
1Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Material Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
Abstract:
A novel electrochemical luminescence (ECL) sensing system is designed based on the catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) cascade nonmetallic surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect for ultrasensitive and selective miRNA-21 detection. In the CHA cycles, much more target miRNA-21 is captured to amplify the detection signal and enhance sensitivity. Meanwhile, the specific recognition between streptavidin (SA) and biotin, together with the SPR effect of SnS2 nanoplates on perylene tetracarboxylic acid, further amplifies the ECL signal. Together, miRNA-21 can be quantified with a limit of detection of 0.6 aM in the novel ECL system with ultrahigh sensitivity and selectivity. The ECL biosensor exhibits excellent stability and reproducibility as well as good practicality for miRNA-21 detection in real human serum.
