Direct enzyme-amplified electrical recognition of a 30-base model oligonucleotide
Direct enzyme-amplified electrical recognition of a 30-base model oligonucleotide
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DOI:
10.1021/ja960490o
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发表时间:
1996-06-12
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15
通讯作者:
Heller, A
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作者:
deLumleyWoodyear, T;Campbell, CN;Heller, A
Electrochemical sensors recognizing hybridization of DNA strands based on electrogenerated chemiluminescence1-5 and cyclic voltammetry of intercalated ruthenium and cobalt complexes6, 7 and organic dyes8, 9 and of redox functions covalently bound to single DNA strands10 have been reported. Also a direct enzyme-amplified amperometric affinity assay for the avidin-biotin conjugate has been described. 11 In this system, bonding of biotinylated horseradish peroxidase to avidin covalently attached to an electron-conducting redox hydrogel resulted in the “wiring” of the enzyme, ie its electrical connection to the electrode. Such connection produced an H2O2 electroreduction current proportional to the number of conjugates. Here we show that the hybridization of a model oligonucleotide can be directly measured as an electrical current. The current flows as a result of continuous electroreduction of H2O2, electrocatalyzed by the horseradish peroxidase (HRP) label of an oligonucleotide strand when the complementary strand is covalently bound to a hydrogel that electrically “wires” the HRP (Figure 1). In such a hydrogel, electrons diffuse via self-exchange of electrons between colliding segments of the redox polymer network, which become mobile when hydrated. 12 A strand of poly (deoxythymidine)-5′-phosphate (pd (T) 25-30), oligonucleotide I, was attached to a film of a polyacrylamidebased, electron-conducting redox hydrogel on a vitreous carbon electrode. 13 The complementary strand, poly (deoxyadenosine)-5′-phosphate (pd (A) 25-30), oligonucleotide II, was labeled with HRP. Upon hybridization the enzyme was electrically wired to the electrode, and H2O2 was electrocatalytically reduced. The resulting current density was 1.4 (0.2 μA/cm2 on an electrode poised at 0.0 V versus Ag/AgCl. The current density resulting from nonspecific binding of HRP bound to a noncomplementary oligonucleotide, such as pd (T) 25-30 or poly (deoxyguanosine)-5′-phosphate (pd (G) 12-18), oligonucleotide III, was only 0.07 (0.02 μA/cm2. The electron-conducting redox hydrogel was formed by crosslinking on a vitreous carbon electrode the copolymer PAAPVI-Os (Figure 2a) with polyacrylamide-hydrazide (Sigma, Cat# P-9905)(Figure 2b) using poly (ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether)(Polysciences Cat# 08211) as a cross-linker. The respective weight fractions of the three polymers were 61: 37: 2, and the total polymer loading was 0.4 mg cm-2. Oligonucleotide I was covalently bound by carbodiimide coupling to hydrazide functions of the hydrogel by a reported process. 14 Oligonucleotide II was HRP labeled, as shown in Figure 3; 1.85× 10-4 g of pd (A) 25-30 was treated with 3× 10-3 L of a 0.1 M imidazole, 0.15 M EDC, 2.5× 10-3 M hydrazine monohydrate solution at 23 C for 16 h. 15 To remove the excess hydrazine, the oligonucleotide was precipitated in ethanol,