Optical aptasensors for quantitative detection of small biomolecules: A review

C Feng, S Dai, L Wang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2014 - Elsevier
Aptasensors are aptamer-based biosensors with excellent recognition capability towards a
wide range of targets. Specially, there have been ever-growing interests in the development …

DNA as sensors and imaging agents for metal ions

Y Xiang, Y Lu - Inorganic chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Increasing interest in detecting metal ions in many chemical and biomedical fields has
created demands for developing sensors and imaging agents for metal ions with high …

Carnivore diet analysis based on next‐generation sequencing: application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in Pakistan

W Shehzad, T Riaz, MA Nawaz, C Miquel… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Diet analysis is a prerequisite to fully understand the biology of a species and the
functioning of ecosystems. For carnivores, traditional diet analyses mostly rely upon the …

A DNA aptamer for theophylline with ultrahigh selectivity reminiscent of the classic RNA aptamer

PJJ Huang, J Liu - ACS Chemical Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Since the report of the RNA aptamer for theophylline, theophylline has become a key
molecule in chemical biology for designing RNA switches and riboswitches. In addition …

[PDF][PDF] Simultaneous elimination of carryover contamination and detection of DNA with uracil-DNA-glycosylase-supplemented loop-mediated isothermal amplification …

K Hsieh, PL Mage, AT Csordas, M Eisenstein… - Chem …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Rapid, sensitive, and specific genetic amplification methods have become an indispensable
tool for a wide array of applications including disease diagnostics, 1–3 food safety testing, 4 …

Aptamer-based strategies for recognizing adenine, adenosine, ATP and related compounds

Y Li, J Liu - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Adenine is a key nucleobase, adenosine is an endogenous regulator of the immune system,
while adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the energy source of many biological reactions …

2-Aminopurine-modified DNA homopolymers for robust and sensitive detection of mercury and silver

W Zhou, J Ding, J Liu - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017 - Elsevier
Heavy metal detection is a key topic in analytical chemistry. DNA-based metal recognition
has advanced significantly producing many specific metal ligands, such as thymine for Hg …

A highly specific sodium aptamer probed by 2-aminopurine for robust Na+ sensing

W Zhou, J Ding, J Liu - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Sodium is one of the most abundant metals in the environment and in biology, playing
critical ecological and physiological roles. Na+ is also the most common buffer salt for …

Engineering base-excised aptamers for highly specific recognition of adenosine

Y Li, B Liu, Z Huang, J Liu - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The DNA aptamer for adenosine and ATP has been used as a model system for developing
analytical biosensors. For practical reasons, it is important to distinguish adenosine from …

DNA abasic site-directed formation of fluorescent silver nanoclusters for selective nucleobase recognition

K Ma, Q Cui, G Liu, F Wu, S Xu, Y Shao - Nanotechnology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
DNA single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection has attracted much attention due to
mutation related diseases. Various methods for SNP detection have been proposed and …