Toehold-mediated biosensors: Types, mechanisms and biosensing strategies

S Li, L Zhu, S Lin, W Xu - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Toehold-mediated strand displacement (TMSD) reactions between double-stranded DNA
and single-stranded oligonucleotides, which use a toehold structure as a switch, enable …

Gold nanoparticles-based colorimetric assay of pesticides: A critical study on aptamer's role and another alternative sensor array strategy

J Zhu, B Yang, H Hao, L Peng, S Lou - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2023 - Elsevier
Pesticide residue is an important problem in environmental pollution, and colorimetric
methods are suitable for on-site fast assay of pesticides. Analytes-triggered aptamer …

A nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanospheres-based aptasensor for non-invasive salivary detection of progesterone

M Ghanbarzadeh, A Ghaffarinejad, F Shahdost-Fard - Talanta, 2024 - Elsevier
Developing an easy-to-use and non-invasive sensor for monitoring progesterone (P4) as a
multi-functional hormone is highly demanded for point-of-care testing. In this study, an …

Target-mediated competitive hybridization of hairpin probes for kanamycin detection based on exonuclease III cleavage and DNAzyme catalysis

J Pan, F Deng, L Zeng, Z Liu, J Chen - Analytical and Bioanalytical …, 2022 - Springer
Based on aptamer recognition and target-mediated competitive hybridization of hairpin
probes, we developed a fluorescence sensor for kanamycin (KAN) detection. The aptamer …

Tetrahedral DNA nanostructure enhanced toehold-mediated strand displacement for highly sensitive electrochemiluminescence assay of CA125

W Zhang, W Wang, Y Yu - Bioelectrochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Cancer antigen 125 (CA125) is a typical tumor marker of ovarian cancer. Here, a
multi-amplified electrochemiluminescence (ECL) aptasensor was developed for efficient …