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  • Title: Bio-cleavable nanoprobes for target-triggered catalytic hairpin assembly amplification detection of microRNAs in live cancer cells.
    Author: Li D, Wu Y, Gan C, Yuan R, Xiang Y.
    Journal: Nanoscale; 2018 Sep 27; 10(37):17623-17628. PubMed ID: 30204195.
    Abstract:
    The monitoring and imaging of intracellular microRNAs (miRNAs) with specific sequences plays a vital role in cell biology as it can potentially elucidate many cellular processes and diseases related to miRNAs in living cells with accurate information. However, the detection of trace amounts of under-expressed intracellular miRNAs in living cells represents one of the current major challenges. In an effort to address this issue, we describe the establishment of an in cell catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) signal amplification strategy for imaging under-expressed intracellular miRNAs in this work. Gold nanoparticles functionalized with FAM- and TAMRA-labeled hairpins with disulfide bonds in the stems are readily delivered into cells via endocytosis. Glutathione with evaluated concentrations in cancer cells cleaves the disulfide bonds in the hairpins by reduction to release the hairpins, and the target miRNAs further trigger CHA between the two hairpins to form many DNA duplexes, which bring the FAM and TAMRA labels into close proximity to generate apparently enhanced fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for the sensitive monitoring of low amounts of under-expressed miRNAs in live cancer cells. Using CHA to amplify the signal output and FRET to reduce the background noise, a significantly enhanced signal-to-noise ratio, thereby high sensitivity, over conventional fluorescence imaging can be realized, making our method particularly suitable for monitoring low levels of intracellular species.
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