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A Signal-On Fluorosensor Based on Quench-Release Principle for Sensitive Detection of Antibiotic Rapamycin
摘要： An antibiotic rapamycin is one of the most commonly used immunosuppressive drugs, and also implicated for its anti-cancer activity. Hence, the determination of its blood level after organ transplantation or tumor treatment is of great concern in medicine. Although there are several rapamycin detection methods, many of them have limited sensitivity, and/or need complicated procedures and long assay time. As a novel fluorescent biosensor for rapamycin, here we propose “Q’-body”, which works on the fluorescence quench-release principle inspired by the antibody-based quenchbody (Q-body) technology. We constructed rapamycin Q’-bodies by linking the two interacting domains FKBP12 and FRB, whose association is triggered by rapamycin. The fusion proteins were each incorporated position-specifically with one of fluorescence dyes ATTO520, tetramethylrhodamine, or ATTO590 using a cell-free translation system. As a result, rapid rapamycin dose-dependent fluorescence increase derived of Q’-bodies was observed, especially for those with ATTO520 with a lowest detection limit of 0.65 nM, which indicates its utility as a novel fluorescent biosensor for rapamycin.
关键词： rapamycin,fluorescent biosensor,fluorescence quenching,photoinduced electron transfer,antibiotics
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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SiRNA-directed self-assembled quantum dot biosensor for simultaneous detection of multiple microRNAs at the single-particle level
摘要： MicroRNAs are essential post-transcriptional regulators and may act as the noninvasive biomarker for disease diagnosis. Sensitive and multiplexed detection of microRNAs may facilitate the accurate and early clinical diagnosis, but the available methods are usually compromised by using organic dyes as the signal probes, laborious chemical and enzymatic manipulations, and the complicated reaction schemes. Here we reported a siRNA-directed self-assembled quantum dot (QD) biosensor for facile and simultaneous detection of multiple microRNAs. In this biosensor, the binding of microRNA targets with corresponding QD nanoprobes leads to the formation of siRNA duplexes, which not only induces the spectrally resolved coding of microRNAs, but also facilitates the assembly of QDs:magnetic nanoparticle bioconjugates for the isolation and enrichment of target microRNAs. The disassembled QDs can be sensitively detected by single-molecule detection, enabling quantitatively sensing of microRNAs at the single-particle level. This biosensor employs only QDs as the signal reporters, which can simultaneously detect multiple microRNAs from the same sample and achieves femtomolar sensitivity and single-base mismatch selectivity without the involvement of any target labeling and amplification steps. Moreover, it can be successfully applied for simultaneous detection of circulating microRNAs in clinical serum samples, holding great potential in non-invasive early diagnosis and biomedical researches.
关键词： Quantum dot,SiRNA,Fluorescent biosensor,MicroRNA,Single-particle detection
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Fluorescent biosensor for detection of the R248Q aggregation‐prone mutant of p53
摘要： The p53 tumour suppressor and guardian of the genome undergoes missense mutations which lead to functional inactivation in 50% human cancers. These mutations occur mostly in the DNA-binding domain of the protein and several of these result in conformational changes which lead to amyloid-like protein aggregation. Here we describe a fluorescent biosensor that reports on the R248Q mutant of p53 in vitro and in living cells, engineered through conjugation of an environmentally-sensitive probe onto a peptide derived from the primary aggregation segment of p53.This biosensor was characterized both in vitro and by fluorescence microscopy following facilitated delivery into cultured cells. We show that this biosensor preferentially reports on the p53 R248Q mutant in PC9 lung cancer cell line compared to other lung cancer cell lines harbouring either wildtype or no p53.
关键词： p53,lung cancer,fluorescent biosensor,peptide,aggregation
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14