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A novel binding-induced DNAzyme motor triggered by survivin mRNA

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The accurate and sensitive detection of survivin mRNA is of great significance for cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, limited by the low-abundance mRNA in live cells, most strategies of survivin mRNA detection that were one-to-one signal-triggered model (one target triggered one signal) were inapplicable in practice. Here, we reported a binding-induced DNAzyme motor triggered by the survivin mRNA, which was a one-to-more signal-triggered model (one target triggered more signals), amplifying the detection signal and enhancing the sensitivity. The nanomotor is constructed by assembling several DNAzyme motor strands silenced by the blocker strands, and dozens of FAM-labeled substrate strands on a single gold nanoparticle (AuNP), forming three-dimensional DNA tracks. Through building the survivin mRNA bridge between the blocker and the DNAzyme motor strand, the binding-induced DNA nanomotor could be triggered by survivin mRNA. The operation of the DNAzyme motor was self-powered. And each walking step of the DNAzyme motor was fueled by DNAzyme-catalyzed substrate cleavage, along with the cleavage of the fluorescent molecule, resulting in autonomous and progressive walking along the AuNP-based tracks, and the fluorescence increase. The DNAzyme motor exhibited excellent sensitivity and remarkable specificity for survivin mRNA, providing the potential for cell image.

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Financial support from the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (21C0566, 21A0455), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2020JJ2012), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81874332), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (2020JJ5593).

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan, 411104, Hunan, China

    Chang Liu, Jiyu Deng, Juan Yi, Ru Zhang, Lixin Chen, Xin Fu, Shuzhen Liao & Hai Yang

  2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, 410114, Hunan, China

    Wenjun Yi

  3. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China

    Guoqiang Zou

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Liu, C., Deng, J., Yi, J. et al. A novel binding-induced DNAzyme motor triggered by survivin mRNA. Anal Bioanal Chem 414, 6167–6175 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-022-04183-4

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