Zhenyu Zhu, Thomas Schmidt, Maroi Mahrous, Valérie Guieu, Sandrine Perrier, Corinne Ravelet, Eric Peyrin
Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire UMR 5063 CNRS, ICMG FR 2607, Université Grenoble I, Saint-Martin d'Hères, France.
Analytica chimica acta 2011 Nov 30In this paper, a structure-switching aptamer assay based on a fluorescence polarization (FP) signal transduction approach and dedicated to the L-tyrosinamide sensing was described and optimized. A fluorescently labelled complementary strand (CS) of the aptamer central region was used as a probe. The effects of critical parameters such as buffer composition and pH, temperature, aptamer:CS stoichiometry, nature of the dye (Fluorescein (F) or Texas Red (TR)) and length of the CS (15-, 12-, 9- and 6-mer) on the assay analytical performances were evaluated. Under optimized experimental conditions (10 mM Tris-HCl, 5 mM MgCl(2) and 25 mM NaCl, pH 7.5 temperature of 22°C and stoichiometry 1:1), the results showed that, for a 12-mer CS, the F dye moderately increased the method sensitivity in comparison to the TR label. The F labelled 9-mer CS, however, did not allow the hybrid formation with the functional nucleic acid, thus emphasizing the importance of the nature of the fluorophore. In contrast, the same 9-mer CS labelled with the TR dye was able to effectively associate with the aptamer and was easily displaced upon target binding as demonstrated by a significant improvement of the sensitivity and a detection limit of 250 nM, comparable to those reported with direct aptasensing methods. The present study demonstrates that not only the CS length but also the nature of the dye played a preponderant role in the performance of the structure-switching aptamer assay, highlighting the importance of interdependently controlling these two factors for an optimal FP-based sensing platform. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Zhenyu Zhu, Thomas Schmidt, Maroi Mahrous, Valérie Guieu, Sandrine Perrier, Corinne Ravelet, Eric Peyrin. Optimization of the structure-switching aptamer-based fluorescence polarization assay for the sensitive tyrosinamide sensing. Analytica chimica acta. 2011 Nov 30;707(1-2):191-6
PMID: 22027138
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