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Graphene-Mesoporous Silica-Dispersed Palladium Nanoparticles-Based Probe Carrier Platform for Electrocatalytic Sensing of Telomerase Activity at Less Than Single-Cell Level.
Adv Healthc Mater. 2013 Sep 4. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201300228
Wu L, Wang J, Sun H, Ren J, Qu X
Abstract:
.....Here, a novel PCR-free, electrocatalytic assay for signal-amplified detection of telomerase activity using graphene-mesoporous silica-dispersed palladium nanoparticles-based probe carrier platform to improve probe-target recognition is reported. The low background noise is achieved by using DNA site-specific cleavage endonuclease and the detection signal is amplified by using hemoglobin. As a highly efficient electron sink, hemoglobin does not carry out direct reduction at the surface, minimizing false positives. These merits make this assay highly sensitive, achieving the sensitivity comparable to TRAP. The developed electrocatalysis assay is PCR-free, simple in design, and fast in operation, therefore avoiding PCR amplification-related errors, which make it more reliable to evaluate telomerase activity for clinical use.
PMID: 24039181
Tags: ALT, methods, telomerase