Bimetallic Pd-Pt supported graphene promoted enzymatic redox cycling for ultrasensitive electrochemical quantification of microRNA from cell lysates

Analyst. 2014 Aug 21;139(16):3860-5. doi: 10.1039/c4an00777h.

Abstract

The expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) is related to some cancer diseases. Recently, miRNAs have emerged as new candidate diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for detecting a wide variety of cancers. Due to low levels, short sequences and high sequence homology among family members, the quantitative miRNA analysis is still a challenge. A novel electrochemical biosensor with triple signal amplification for the ultrasensitive detection of miRNA was developed based on phosphatase, redox-cycling amplification, a bimetallic Pd-Pt supported graphene functionalized screen-printed gold electrode, and two stem-loop structured DNAs as target capturers. The proposed biosensor is highly sensitive due to the enhanced electrochemical signal of Pd-Pt supported graphene and sufficiently selective to discriminate the target miRNA from homologous miRNAs in the presence of loop-stem structure probes with T4 DNA ligase. Therefore, this strategy provided a new and ultrasensitive platform for amplified detection and subsequent analysis of miRNA in biomedical research and clinical diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biosensing Techniques / methods*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • DNA Probes / chemistry
  • Electrochemical Techniques / methods*
  • Gold / chemistry
  • Graphite / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Limit of Detection
  • Mice
  • MicroRNAs / analysis*
  • NIH 3T3 Cells
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Palladium / chemistry*
  • Platinum / chemistry*

Substances

  • DNA Probes
  • MicroRNAs
  • mirnlet7 microRNA, human
  • Platinum
  • Palladium
  • Gold
  • Graphite