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 …

Cooperative toehold: a mechanism to activate DNA strand displacement and construct biosensors

P Hu, M Li, X Wei, B Yang, Y Li, CY Li, J Du - Analytical chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement has proven powerful in the construction of
various DNA circuits, DNA machines, and biosensors. So far, many new toehold activation …

Recent advances in molecular machines based on toehold‐mediated strand displacement reaction

Y Guo, B Wei, S Xiao, D Yao, H Li, H Xu… - Quantitative …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background The DNA strand displacement reaction, which uses flexible and programmable
DNA molecules as reaction components, is the basis of dynamic DNA nanotechnology, and …

Strand displacement strategies for biosensor applications

Y Dai, A Furst, CC Liu - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
DNA has many unique properties beyond encoding genetic information, one of which is its
physicochemical stability based on Watson–Crick base pairing. Differences in sequence …

Toehold-mediated nonenzymatic DNA strand displacement as a platform for DNA genotyping

DA Khodakov, AS Khodakova, A Linacre… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement provides unique advantages in the
construction and manipulation of multidimensional DNA nanostructures as well as nucleic …

Real-time monitoring of enzyme-free strand displacement cascades by colorimetric assays

R Duan, B Wang, F Hong, T Zhang, Y Jia, J Huang… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The enzyme-free toehold-mediated strand displacement reaction has shown potential for
building programmable DNA circuits, biosensors, molecular machines and chemical …

Series or parallel toehold-mediated strand displacement and its application in circular RNA detection and logic gates

S Bai, B Xu, J Wu, G Xie - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Toehold-mediated strand displacement (TMSD) is widely employed in constructing a wide
range of chemical reaction networks. In TMSD, single-stranded DNA or RNA can fold back …

Twinkle-catalyzed toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement reaction

A Singh, G Patel, SS Patel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Strand exchange between homologous nucleic acid sequences is the basis for cellular DNA
repair, recombination, and genome editing technologies. Specialized enzymes catalyze …

Information processing based on DNA toehold-mediated strand displacement (TMSD) reaction

T Luo, S Fan, Y Liu, J Song - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
SemiSynBio is an emerging topic toward the construction of platforms for next-generation
information processing. Recent research has indicated its promising prospect toward …

Control of DNA strand displacement kinetics using toehold exchange

DY Zhang, E Winfree - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 - ACS Publications
DNA is increasingly being used as the engineering material of choice for the construction of
nanoscale circuits, structures, and motors. Many of these enzyme-free constructions function …