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- Title
Imaging Endogenous Metal Ions in Living Cells Using a DNAzyme-Catalytic Hairpin Assembly Probe.
- Authors
Wu, Zhenkun; Fan, Huanhuan; Satyavolu, Nitya Sai Reddy; Wang, WenJing; Lake, Ryan; Jiang, Jian‐Hui; Lu, Yi
- Abstract
DNAzymes are a promising platform for metal ion detection, and a few DNAzyme-based sensors have been reported to detect metal ions inside cells. However, these methods required an influx of metal ions to increase their concentrations for detection. To address this major issue, the design of a catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) reaction to amplify the signal from photocaged Na+-specific DNAzyme to detect endogenous Na+ inside cells is reported. Upon light activation and in the presence of Na+, the NaA43 DNAzyme cleaves its substrate strand and releases a product strand, which becomes an initiator that trigger the subsequent CHA amplification reaction. This strategy allows detection of endogenous Na+ inside cells, which has been demonstrated by both fluorescent imaging of individual cells and flow cytometry of the whole cell population. This method can be generally applied to detect other endogenous metal ions and thus contribute to deeper understanding of the role of metal ions in biological systems.
- Subjects
METAL ions; DEOXYRIBOZYMES; AMPLIFICATION reactions; BIOSENSORS; FLOW cytometry
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2017, Vol 129, Issue 30, p8847
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201703540