分子信标在DNA生物传感器中的应用

DNA传感器是基于DNA分子相互作用原理设计而成的一种新型的检测技术,具有快速,简单等优点,在基因分析及其他应用领域已显示出越来越重要的价值.分子信标是一种具有发卡式结构的寡核苷酸,由于其能够很好地识别单碱基错配序列,基于发卡式DNA的传感器较传统的单链DNA传感器有更好的检测特异性,目前得到广泛的研究.本文介绍了DNA生物传感器及分子信标的有关原理,并着重介绍了发卡式DNA的结构及其在DNA生物传感器中的应用.     

基于硒化镉量子点磁微球的微悬臂梁式免疫传感器片上磁分离

应用了以硒化镉量子点为荧光探针,具有磁性和抗体双重靶向功能的聚苯乙烯磁微球.设计了基于此种磁微球的新型微悬臂梁式免疫传感器,满足在液相环境中,借助嵌入到聚苯乙烯磁微球的荧光探针及微球表面的特异性抗体探针,达到生物分子的定性检测,借助具有纳米机械响应的微悬臂梁及微平面电感线圈,达到生物分子的定量检测及传感器的复用性,解决传统微悬臂梁式免疫传感器的不足.着重对三种粒径尺寸的硒化镉量子点进行了表征,同时针对片上磁分离的机理,梁上微电感线圈的结构,微磁场对磁微球的吸引进行了研究,设计并优化出满足新型微悬臂梁式免疫传感器所需的蛇形微平面电感线圈.通过生物磁分离实验,验证了设计及优化的结果,实现了用于生物分子分离的片上磁分离技术.     

基于DNA分子导线的纳米生物传感器

DNA分子导线具有独特的导电性能和塞贝克(Seebeck)效应,它是构筑电化学纳米生物传感器和热电偶生物传感器的理想材料。文章简要介绍了DNA分子导线的制备方法及导电机理,以及基于DNA分子导线的纳米生物传感器的分子识别机制,着重分析了基于DNA分子导线的纳米生物传感器的传感原理。文章还介绍了基于DNA分子导线的纳米生物传感器在基因分析、单碱基突变检测等方面的应用。     

DNA生物传感器在环境污染监测中的应用

基于生物催化和免疫原理的生物传感器在环境领域中获得了广泛应用.近年来,随着分子生物学和生物技术的发展,人们开发了以核酸探针为识别元件,基于核酸相互作用原理的DNA生物传感器.该传感器可用于受感染微生物的核酸序列分析、优先控制污染物的检测以及污染物与DNA之间相互作用的研究,在环境污染监测中具有潜在的巨大应用前景.简要介绍了核酸杂交生物传感器的基本原理及其在环境微生物和优先控制污染物（priority pollutant）检测中的应用研究进展.     

DNA生物传感器进展

近几年来,酶传感器、免疫传感器及微生物传感器等发展较为成熟,而DNA生物传感器的研究相对较少.文章从核酸杂交的原理出发介绍了DNA生物传感器的工作原理,举例说明了电化学、光学和声学等几种典型的DNA生物传感器,指出了其固有的优缺点,肯定了DNA传感器发展前景.     

生物传感器应用于食源性致病菌检测研究进展

生物传感器技术是一种由生物、化学、物理、医学、电子技术等多种学科互相渗透形成起来的高新微量分析技术,具有选择性好、灵敏度高、分析速度快、成本低、能在复杂的体系中进行在线连续监测的特点.本文根据生物传感器的分子识别元件将生物传感器分为DNA传感器、免疫传感器、细胞传感器三大类,简要介绍各种生物传感器的原理及其在检测食源性致病菌方面的应用情况,并对未来生物传感器应用于实际检测进行了展望.     

阵列电化学生物传感器研究进展

阵列生物传感器技术作为一种高通量、快速、选择性高和集成化的分析技术,已在基因组学和蛋白质组学的研究和药物筛选、环境分析,食品分析,临床诊断等领域中得到广泛的应用.阵列生物传感器主要有阵列光学生物传感器和阵列电化学生物传感器.阵列电化学生物传感器是将生物分子识别物质如酶、抗原/抗体、DNA等固定在阵列电极上,以阵列中每根电极产生的电化学信号作为检测信号的电化学分析器件.阵列电化学生物传感器以灵敏度高、分析速度快、选择性好、易于微型化和集成化以及仪器价格低廉等特点受到了研究工作者的极大关注.本文简单介绍了阵列电化学生物传感器的原理和特点,重点评述了2005年以来阵列电化学生物传感器在单组份检测和多组份同时检测两方面的研究进展,简单讨论了阵列电化学生物传感器研究中存在的问题.     

短状杆菌的DNA分子杂交与分类学研究

利用非放射性光敏生物素标记DNA分子与固定在微稀释板上的热变性单链DNA杂交的方法,对短状杆菌(Brachybacterium)15个菌株的染色体DNA进行分子杂交．通过测定荧光强度,确定DNA间的同源值．根据其遗传相关性,对难以从形态特征、生理生化特性等进一步分类的细菌在种的水平上定论,确定其应有的分类位置．光敏生物素标记DNA,在微稀释板上进行分子杂交是一种准确、快速的杂交技术,在短状杆菌的分类学研究中起着决定性的作用．     

基因芯片技术在植物基因克隆中的应用研究进展

基因芯片是以预先设计的方式将大量的生物讯息密码(寡核苷酸、cDNA、基因组DNA等)固定在玻片、硅片等固相载体上组成的密集分子阵列.基因芯片技术本质是生物信号的平行分析,它利用核酸分子杂交原理,通过荧光标记技术检测杂交亲和与否,再经过计算机分析处理可迅速获得所需信息.由于其具有高通量、微型化、连续化、自动化、快速和准确等特点,已引起国际国内广泛的关注和重视,在许多领域得到了广泛的应用.本文简述了基因芯片的概念,技术特点及主要分类,着重对其在基因表达水平检测,基因突变和多态性的分析,基因组DNA分析,后基因组学研究以及转基因农作物检测等方面进行阐述,并说明其存在的问题及展望.     

基因芯片在海洋微藻研究中的应用前景

基因芯片通常指DNA芯片,其基本原理是将大量的寡核苷酸分子固定于支持物上,然后与标记的样品进行杂交,通过检测杂交信号从而获取结果。多年来,我国在医药疾病研究、微生物检测等领域已成功研制出多种基因芯片,取得了骄人的成绩,但在对海洋微藻研究的应用上成果较少。现着力从实际应用的角度阐述基因芯片及其在海洋微藻研究中的应用。     

Detection of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) DNA at femtomolar concentrations using a silica nanoparticle-enhanced microcantilever sensor

We report Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) DNA detection using a silica nanoparticle-enhanced dynamic microcantilever biosensor. A 243-mer nucleotide of HBV DNA precore/core region was used as the target DNA. For this assay, the capture probe on the microcantilever surface and the detection probe conjugated with silica nanoparticles were designed specifically for the target DNA. For efficient detection of the HBV target DNA using silica nanoparticle-enhanced DNA assay, the size of silica nanoparticles and the dimension of microcantilever were optimized by directly binding the silica nanoparticles through DNA hybridization. In addition, the correlation between the applied nanoparticle concentrations and the resonant frequency shifts of the microcantilever was discussed clearly to validate the quantitative relationship between mass loading and resonant frequency shift.HBV target DNAs of 23.1 fM to 2.31 nM which were obtained from the PCR product were detected using a silica nanoparticle-enhanced microcantilever. The HBV target DNA of 243-mer was detected up to the picomolar (pM) level without nanoparticle enhancement and up to the femtomolar (fM) level using a nanoparticle-based signal amplification process. In the above two cases, the resonant frequency shifts were found to be linearly correlated with the concentrations of HBV target DNAs. We believe that this linearity originated mainly from an increase in mass that resulted from binding between the probe DNA and HBV PCR product, and between HBV PCR product and silica nanoparticles for the signal enhancement, even though there is another potential factor such as the spring constant change that may have influenced on the resonant frequency of the microcantilever.     

A DNA sequence-specific electrochemical biosensor based on alginic acid-coated cobalt magnetic beads for the detection of E. coli

A new type of DNA sequence-specific electrochemical biosensor based on magnetic beads for the detection of Escherichia coli is reported in the present work. Alginic acid-coated cobalt magnetic beads, capped with 5'-(NH(2)) oligonucleotide and employed not only for magnetic separation but also as the solid adsorbent, were used as DNA probes to hybridize with the target E. coli DNA sequence. This assay was specific for E. coli detection depending on the uid A gene, which encodes for the enzyme β-d-glucuronidase produced by E. coli strains. When daunomycin (DNR) was used as DNA hybridization indicator, the target sequences of E. coli hybridized with the probes resulted in the decrease of DNR reduction peak current, which was proportional to the E. coli concentration. The optimization of the hybridization detection was carried out and the specificity of the probes was also demonstrated. This DNA biosensor can be employed to detect a complementary target sequence for 3.0×10(-10) mol/L and denatured PCR products for 0.5 ng/μL. The linear range of the developed biosensor for the detection of E. coli cells was from 1.0×10(2) to 2.0×10(3) cells/mL with a detection limit of 50 cells/mL. After a brief enrichment process, a concentration of 10 cells/mL E. coli in real water samples was detected by the electrochemical biosensor.     

Molecular-beacon-based array for sensitive DNA analysis

Molecular beacon (MB) DNA probes provide a new way for sensitive label-free DNA/protein detection in homogeneous solution and biosensor development. However, a relatively low fluorescence enhancement after the hybridization of the surface-immobilized MB hinders its effective biotechnological applications. We have designed new molecular beacon probes to enable a larger separation between the surface and the surface-bound MBs. Using these MB probes, we have developed a DNA array on avidin-coated cover slips and have improved analytical sensitivity. A home-built wide-field optical setup was used for imaging the array. Our results show that linker length, pH, and ionic strength have obvious effects on the performance of the surface-bound MBs. The fluorescence enhancement of the new MBs after hybridization has been increased from 2 to 5.5. The MB-based DNA array could be used for DNA detection with high sensitivity, enabling simultaneous multiple-target bioanalysis in a variety of biotechnological applications.     

A novel fluorescence-based array biosensor: principle and application to DNA hybridization assays

A novel fluorescence-based array biosensor targeted for field applications, such as environmental monitoring, has been developed, and successfully applied to DNA hybridization assays. The purpose was to meet the demand for automated, portable but easy-to-maintain systems allowing continuous flow monitoring of surface reactions. The biosensor presented here can be distinguished from the existing systems by the optical method used, which provides an enhanced simplicity and robustness, and enables a simple maintenance by potentially unskilled personnel. The system is based on a conventional microscope slide which acts both as transducer and biological array sensor. The excited fluorescence is guided by total internal reflection into the slide to the detector which is directly interfaced to the slide. Each region of the sensor array is successively optically interrogated, and the detection of the corresponding fluorescent emission synchronized. A real-time three-analyte analysis is thus feasible without any mechanical scanning movement or optical imaging systems as generally used in the existing instruments. The ability of the biosensor to operate in continuous flow for several tens of hours has been demonstrated. The biosensor has been assessed in terms of stability, and slide-to-slide reproducibility, which is found to be less than 3.7%, thus far below the standard biological reproducibility. DNA hybridization assays were performed to estimate a limit of detection, which was found to be 16 mol/microm(2), and to determine the reaction kinetics associated to the DNA model used. The developed biosensor is thus shown to be able to predict reaction kinetics, and to monitor in real time surface reactions between targets and probes.     

Electrochemical measurement of DNA hybridization using nanosilver as label and horseradish peroxidase as enhancer

A simple and sensitive electrochemical DNA biosensor based on in situ DNA amplification with nanosilver as label and horseradish peroxide (HRP) as enhancer has been designed. The thiolated oligomer single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was initially directly immobilized on a gold electrode, and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) gave the specific amount of ssDNA adsorption of 6.3 ± 0.1 ng/cm². With a competitive format, hybridization reaction was carried out via immersing the DNA biosensor into a stirred hybridization solution containing different concentrations of the complementary ssDNA and constant concentration of nanosilver-labeled ssDNA, and then further binding with HRP. The adsorbed HRP amount on the probe surface decreased with the increment of the target ssDNA in the sample. The hybridization events were monitored by using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) with the adsorbed HRP toward the reduction of H₂O₂. The reduction current from the enzyme-generated product was related to the number of target ssDNA molecules in the sample. A detection of 15 pmol/L for target ssDNA was obtained with the electrochemical DNA biosensor. Additionally, the developed approach can effectively discriminate complementary from non-complementary DNA sequence, suggesting that the similar enzyme-labeled DNA assay method hold great promises for sensitive electrochemical biosensor applications.     

Design of a sandwich-mode amperometric biosensor for detection of PML/RARα fusion gene using locked nucleic acids on gold electrode

In this study, a novel DNA electrochemical probe (locked nucleic acid, LNA) was designed and involved in constructing an electrochemical DNA biosensor for detection of promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML/RARα) fusion gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia for the first time. This biosensor was based on a 'sandwich' sensing mode, which involved a pair of LNA probes (capture probe immobilized at electrode surface and biotinyl reporter probe as an affinity tag for streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase (streptavidin-HRP). Since biotin can be connected with streptavidin-HRP, this biosensor offered an enzymatically amplified electrochemical current signal for the detection of target DNA. In the simple hybridization system, DNA fragment with its complementary DNA fragment was evidenced by amperometric detection, with a detection limit of 74 fM and a linear response range of 0.1-10 pM for synthetic PML/RARα fusion gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Otherwise, the biosensor showed an excellent specificity to distinguish the complementary sequence and different mismatch sequences. The new pattern also exhibited high sensitivity and selectivity in mixed hybridization system.     

Hybridization assay of hepatitis B virus by QCM peptide nucleic acid biosensor

Although the analyses of HBV genomic DNA have traditionally been performed with commercial techniques, the high cost and long time consumed have hindered their applications in routinely diagnosis and prognosis of infection. We construct peptide nucleic acid (PNA) piezoelectric biosensor for real-time monitoring of hybridization of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomic DNA. The PNA probe can combine to target DNA sequences more effectively and specifically than a DNA probe. The PNA probe was designed and immobilized on the surface of the biosensor to substitute the conventional DNA probe for direct detection of HBV genomic DNA without previous amplification by PCR. The hybridization assay was completed in 50 min. The detection limit was 8.6 pg/L and the clinical specificity was 94.44% compared with real time-PCR (RT-PCR). The PNA probe was able to distinguish sequences that differ only in one base. Detection sensitivity can be improved and detection time can be decreased by adding RecA protein-coated complementary ssDNA which complement to HBV gene regions. The QCM system we designed has the advantages of being rapid, label-free and highly sensitive and can be a useful supplement to commercial assay methods in clinical chemistry.     

Comparison of a prototype magnetoresistive biosensor to standard fluorescent DNA detection

We present a comparative analysis of a magnetoresistive biosensor to standard fluorescent DNA detection. The biosensor consists of giant magnetoresistive (GMR) type Cu/Ni(80)Fe(20) multilayers in the second antiferromagnetic coupling maximum. Each of the 206 elements of the magnetoresistive biosensor is patterned into a spiral-shaped line that can cover the area of a typical DNA spot (70 microm diameter). The probe DNA is assembled on top of the sensor elements in different concentrations ranging from 16 pg/microl to 10 ng/microl. Complementary biotin-labeled analyte DNA is hybridized to the probe DNA at a concentration of 10 ng/microl. A number of different commercially available magnetic microspheres are investigated to determine the most appropriate markers. The experimental comparison shows that the relative sensitivity of the magnetoresistive biosensor is superior to the fluorescent detection at low probe DNA concentrations.     

Thermal biosensor for detecting nonylphenol in the environment

The main goal of the research was the development of thermal immune biosensor for highly sensitive and specific determination of nonylphenol (NPh), based on measuring the heat released as a result of the interaction between hapten and specific antibodies. As it was shown previously, in case of SPR based immune biosensor a number of algorithms of analysis was realized, including "competitive" (with the sensitivity on the level of about 7-10 ng/ml), "direct" (10 ng/ml) ways, and the so called algorithm "to saturation" (about 2-5 ng/ml). The time of analysis by immune SPR biosensor is about 10 min (on the previously prepared transducer surface, including immobilization of sensitive structures). The developed thermal biosensor provides direct detection of NPh with the sensitivity of about 1 microg/ml and the overall time of analysis of about 20-30 min. In spite of a lower sensitivity of the thermal biosensor, it is less sensitive to admixtures in real samples and simpler in use than the biosensor based on SPR and, consequently, the thermal biosensor is more applicable in the field conditions.     

Direct electrochemical sensor for label-free DNA detection based on zero current potentiometry

A direct electrochemical DNA biosensor based on zero current potentiometry was fabricated by immobilization of ssDNA onto gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) coated pencil graphite electrode (PGE). One ssDNA/AuNPs/PGE was connected in series between clips of working and counter electrodes of a potentiostat, and then immersed into the solution together with a reference electrode, establishing a novel DNA biosensor for specific DNA detection. The variation of zero current potential difference (ΔE(zcp)) before and after hybridization of the self-assembled probe DNA with the target DNA was used as a signal to characterize and quantify the target DNA sequence. The whole DNA biosensor fabrication process was characterized by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with the use of ferricyanide as an electrochemical redox indicator. Under the optimized conditions, ΔE(zcp) was linear with the concentrations of the complementary target DNA in the range from 10nM to 1μM, with a detection limit of 6.9nM. The DNA biosensor showed a good reproducibility and selectivity. Prepared DNA biosensor is facile and sensitive, and it eliminates the need of using exogenous reagents to monitor the oligonucleotides hybridization.