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  • Title: DNAzyme-functionalized porous carbon nanospheres serve as a fluorescent nanoprobe for imaging detection of microRNA-21 and zinc ion in living cells.
    Author: Ji X, Wang Z, Niu S, Ding C.
    Journal: Mikrochim Acta; 2020 Mar 27; 187(4):249. PubMed ID: 32221723.
    Abstract:
    The present study shows that a dual-signal nanoprobe consisting of DNAzyme-functionalized porous carbon nanospheres (PCNs) responds to microRNA-21 and zinc ion (Zn2+). The fluorescent probe undergoes an increase in the fluorescence intensity of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) (with excitation/emission wavelengths at 488/517 nm) and the fluorescence intensity of cyanine-5 (Cy5) (with excitation/emission wavelengths at 633/670 nm) in the presence of microRNA-21 and Zn2+. The recognition between microRNA-21 and its complementary strand in the PCNs induces the separation of Zn2+-specific DNAzyme from PCNs, thus resulting in the increase of green fluorescence, and the exogenous Zn2+ triggers the rupture of cleavage strand of DNAzyme and recovery of red fluorescence. This nanoprobe allows us to acquire in vitro the determination of microRNA-21 in the range of 2-300 nM with a detection limit of 0.57 nM and the determination of Zn2+ in the range 2-100 nM with a detection limit of 0.43 nM, and in situ simultaneous imaging in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Therefore, this strategy permits to obtain the expression levels of different biomarkers in living cells, providing a useful tool for diagnosis of cancers and understanding their biological process. Graphical abstract Schematic representation of the DNAzyme-functionalized porous carbon nanospheres for the imaging analysis of microRNA-21 and Zn2+ in living cells.
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