Aptamer-integrated DNA nanostructures for biosensing, bioimaging and cancer therapy

HM Meng, H Liu, H Kuai, R Peng, L Mo… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of nanostructures with biomolecules leading to the generation of functional
nanosystems holds great promise for biotechnological and biomedical applications. As a …

Immobilization techniques for aptamers on gold electrodes for the electrochemical detection of proteins: a review

FV Oberhaus, D Frense, D Beckmann - Biosensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The development of reliable biosensing platforms plays a key role in the detection of
proteins in clinically and environmentally derived samples for diagnostics, as well as for …

[HTML][HTML] A DNA nanostructure-based biomolecular probe carrier platform for electrochemical biosensing

H Pei, N Lu, Y Wen, S Song, Y Liu, H Yan… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A critical challenge in surface-based biomolecular detection is the reduced accessibility of
target molecules to probes arranged on a heterogeneous surface compared to probe–target …

DNA nanostructure-decorated surfaces for enhanced aptamer-target binding and electrochemical cocaine sensors

Y Wen, H Pei, Y Wan, Y Su, Q Huang, S Song… - Analytical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The sensitivity of aptamer-based electrochemical sensors is often limited by restricted target
accessibility and surface-induced perturbation of the aptamer structure, which arise from …

DNA nanostructure-based interfacial engineering for PCR-free ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis of microRNA

Y Wen, H Pei, Y Shen, J Xi, M Lin, N Lu, X Shen, J Li… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as promising cancer biomarkers due to their
stable presence in serum. As an alternative to PCR-based homogenous assays, surface …

Electrochemical biosensor based on tetrahedral DNA nanostructures and G-quadruplex–hemin conformation for the ultrasensitive detection of MicroRNA-21 in serum

J Lu, J Wang, X Hu, E Gyimah, S Yakubu… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles as significant biomarkers in disease diagnostics.
Here, an electrochemical biosensor was developed for the quick, sensitive, and specific …

DNA nanotechnology-enabled interfacial engineering for biosensor development

D Ye, X Zuo, C Fan - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Biosensors represent biomimetic analytical tools for addressing increasing needs in medical
diagnosis, environmental monitoring, security, and biodefense. Nevertheless, widespread …

Electrostatic interactions in biological DNA-related systems

AG Cherstvy - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
In this perspective article, we focus on recent developments in the theory of charge effects in
biological DNA-related systems. The electrostatic effects on different levels of DNA …

Beyond simple cartoons: challenges in characterizing electrochemical biosensor interfaces

D Bizzotto, IJ Burgess, T Doneux, T Sagara, HZ Yu - ACS sensors, 2018 - ACS Publications
Design and development of surface-based biosensors is challenging given the
multidisciplinary nature of this enterprise, which is certainly the case for electrochemical …

Strategies for optimizing DNA hybridization on surfaces

H Ravan, S Kashanian, N Sanadgol… - Analytical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Specific and predictable hybridization of the polynucleotide sequences to their
complementary counterparts plays a fundamental role in the rational design of new nucleic …