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Paper Based Colorimetric Detection of Mirna-21 Using Ag/Pt Nanoclusters Publisher Pubmed



Fakhri N1 ; Abarghoei S2 ; Dadmehr M3 ; Hosseini M2 ; Sabahi H2 ; Ganjali MR4, 5
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  1. 1. School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Life Science Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences & Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Biology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Biosensor Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy Published:2020


Abstract

Abnormal expression of MicroRNA-21 (miRNA-21) is considered to be a reliable biomarker for the early diagnosis of cancer. In this work, a novel paper based biosensor was fabricated to detect sub-micro molar concentrations of miRNA-21 based on peroxidase mimetic activity of DNA-templated Ag/Pt nanoclusters (DNA-Ag/Pt NCs), which could catalyze the reaction of hydrogen peroxide and 3,3′,5,5′ tetramethylbenzidine (TMB), to produce a blue color. The Mechanism of reaction was based on the inhibition effect of miRNA-21 on peroxidase-like activity of nanosensor which resulted to quantitative determination of miRNA-21 concentration. It was found that miRNA-21 could be linearly detected in the range from 1-700 pM (A652 = 0.16x-0.96, R2 = 0.99; x = -log [miRNA-21]) with a detection limit of 0.6 pM. Moreover, a paper assay was carried out on a Y-shaped paper-based microfluidic device in order to use the distinctive features of micro-channels such as short response time, very low reagent volume, low fabrication cost, etc. After performing paper based assay, a good linear range was observed between 10-1000 pM (y = 0.06x+147.48, R2 = 0.99; x = [miRNA-21]) with detection limit of 4.1 pM. The practical application of proposed method for detection of miRNA-21 in real sample was assayed in the human urine sample and indicated the colorimetric method had acceptable accuracy. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
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