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Poly-adenine-mediated spherical nucleic acids for interfacial recognition of kanamycin

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Kanamycin fluorescence aptasensors were created using a series of di-block oligonucleotide modified gold nanoparticles with various lengths of poly-adenine. In the presence of kanamycin, the double strand structure of the aptamer-reporter strand complex is disrupted, and the dye-labelled reporter strand detaches from the surface of gold nanoparticles, resulting in fluorescence recovery (Ex/Em = 485/520 nm). By adjusting the number of consecutive adenines, the programable aptamer density can be implemented on the gold nanoparticle surface, and the conformation of nucleic acid changed from lying-down to up-right. The apparent binding constant, binding kinetics, and limit of detection of the prepared aptasensors were carefully examined to explore the influence of surface density. Under the optimum condition, the aptasensor had a tenfold lower limit of detection than the thiolated aptamer modified one, as low as 23.6 nM, when a di-block oligonucleotide with twenty consecutive adenines tailed. In addition, satisfactory recoveries ranging from 96.33 to 99.47% were achieved in spiked milk samples with relative standard deviation of 1.2–6.9% (n = 3). This surface density regulation strategy holds great promise in other aptamer-based interfacial recognition and sensing.

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Schematic presentation of di-block oligonucleotide modified gold nanoparticle with different surface densities and its kanamycin sensing application.

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We thank the staff members of Electron Microscopy System and Large-scale Protein Preparation System at the National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai (NFPS), Zhangjiang Lab, China, for providing technical support and assistance in data collection and analysis.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32172303 and 31801636).

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Ye, T., Zhu, D., Hao, L. et al. Poly-adenine-mediated spherical nucleic acids for interfacial recognition of kanamycin. Microchim Acta 189, 151 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-022-05235-3

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