A carbon nanotubes based fluorescent aptasensor for highly sensitive detection of adenosine deaminase activity and inhibitor screening in natural extracts

作者：Hu, Kun^*; Huang, Yong; Wang, Sheng'e; Zhao, Shulin

来源：Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2014, 95: 164-168.

DOI：10.1016/j.jpba.2014.02.027

• Aptasensor
• Carbon nanotubes
• Adenosine deaminase
• Fluorescence
• Inhibition

A carbon nanotubes (CNTs) based fluorescent aptasensor was developed for adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity detection and inhibitor screening by using adenosine (AD) as the substrate. This sensing system consists of CNTs, AD, split anti-AD aptamer fragment and dye-labeled aptamer fragment. In the absence of ADA, two aptamer fragments bind simultaneously with AD to form an AD-aptamer complex. This AD-aptamer complex cannot adsorb onto CNTs, and has high fluorescence intensity. When ADA is introduced into this system, ADA can convert AD into inosine, which has not affinity to the split anti-AD aptamer fragment. Thus, the split anti-AD aptamer fragments were adsorbed onto CNTs via strong pi-pi stacking interactions, resulting in the quenching of the fluorescence of the dye-labeled aptamer fragment. The proposed aptasensor can detect ADA activity from 0.005 to 0.2 U/mL with a low detection limit of 0.002 U/mL. Moreover, it has been also demonstrated that this CNTs-based fluorescence aptasensor is suitable for ADA inhibitor screening from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Considering the superior sensitivity and specificity, the proposed CNTs-based fluorescent aptasensor can be expected to provide a simple, cost-effective and sensitive platform for the detection of ADA activity and screening of potential drugs.

• 出版日期2014-7
• 单位广西师范大学