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Highly sensitive electrochemical detection of circulating EpCAM-positive tumor cells using a dual signal amplification strategy
Investigations of antioxidant potential and protective effect of Acanthophora algae on DNA damage: An electrochemical approach
Preparation of Epirubicin Aptasensor Using Curcumin as Hybridization Indicator: Competitive Binding Assay between Complementary Strand of Aptamer and Epirubicin
Pyrophosphate-Enhanced Oxidase Activity of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles for Colorimetric Detection of Nucleic Acids
In recent years, cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles (NPs) have drawn significant attention owing to their intrinsic enzyme mimetic properties, which make them powerful tools for biomolecular detection. In this work, we evaluated the effect of pyrophosphate (PPi) on the oxidase activity of CeO2 NPs. The presence of PPi was found to enhance the oxidase activity of CeO2 NPs, with enhanced colorimetric signals. This particular effect was then used for the colorimetric detection of target nucleic acids. Overall, the PPi-enhanced colorimetric signals of CeO2 NPs oxidase activity were suppressed by the presence of the target nucleic acids. Compared with previous studies using CeO2 NPs only, our proposed system significantly improved the signal change (ca. 200%), leading to more sensitive and reproducible colorimetric analysis of target nucleic acids. As a proof-of-concept study, the proposed system was successfully applied to the highly selective and sensitive detection of polymerase chain reaction products derived from Klebsiella pneumoniae. Our findings will benefit the rapid detection of nucleic acid biomarkers (e.g., pathogenic bacterial DNA or RNA) in point-of-care settings