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Ye-Yu Liao1, Yu-Zhuo Guo1, Jia-Li Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Herein, single-atom iron doped carbon dots (SA Fe-CDs) were successfully prepared as novel electrochemiluminescence (ECL) emitters with high ECL efficiency, and a biosensor was constructed to ultrasensitively detect microRNA-222 (miRNA-222). Importantly, compared with the conventional without single-atom doped CDs with low ECL efficiency, SA Fe-CDs exhibited strong ECL efficiency, in which single-atom iron as an advanced coreactant accelerator could significantly enhance the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from the coreactant S2O82- for improving the ECL efficiency. Moreover, a neoteric amplification strategy combining the improved strand displacement amplification with Nt.BbvCI enzyme-induced target amplification (ISDA-EITA) could produce 4 output DNAs in every cycle, which greatly improved the amplification efficiency. Thus, a useful ECL biosensor was built with a detection limit of 16.60 aM in the range of 100 aM to 1 nM for detecting traces of miRNA-222. In addition, miRNA-222 in cancer cell lysate (MHCC-97L) was successfully detected by using the ECL biosensor. Therefore, this strategy provides highly efficient single-atom doped ECL emitters for the construction of sensitive ECL biosensing platforms in the biological field and clinical diagnosis.
