Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids

Y Zhao, F Chen, Q Li, L Wang, C Fan - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids is a simple process that rapidly and efficiently
accumulates nucleic acid sequences at constant temperature. Since the early 1990s …

[HTML][HTML] From cascaded catalytic nucleic acids to enzyme–DNA nanostructures: controlling reactivity, sensing, logic operations, and assembly of complex structures

F Wang, CH Lu, I Willner - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
DNA is one of the most fascinating biopolymers. Besides its central role as carrier of genetic
information and translation of the genetic code into proteins, DNA holds great promise as a …

Mimicking Horseradish Peroxidase Functions Using Cu2+-Modified Carbon Nitride Nanoparticles or Cu2+-Modified Carbon Dots as Heterogeneous Catalysts

M Vazquez-Gonzalez, WC Liao, R Cazelles, S Wang… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cu2+-functionalized carbon nitride nanoparticles (Cu2+–g-C3N4 NPs),∼ 200 nm, and
Cu2+–carbon dots (Cu2+–C-dots),∼ 8 nm, act as horseradish peroxidase-mimicking …

Functional nucleic acid sensors

J Liu, Z Cao, Y Lu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Sensors are devices that respond to physical or chemical stimuli and produce detectable
signals. 1r4 They are a critical extension of human perception of the world in many aspects …

Duplexed aptamers: history, design, theory, and application to biosensing

JD Munzar, A Ng, D Juncker - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA sequences that specifically bind a
cognate ligand. In addition to their widespread use as stand-alone affinity binding reagents …

Chemiluminescent and chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET) detection of DNA, metal ions, and aptamer–substrate complexes using hemin/G …

R Freeman, X Liu, I Willner - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid subunits consisting of fragments of the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-
mimicking DNAzyme and aptamer domains against ATP or sequences recognizing Hg2+ …

Nucleic acid based molecular devices

Y Krishnan, FC Simmel - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In biology, nucleic acids are carriers of molecular information: DNA's base sequence stores
and imparts genetic instructions, while RNA's sequence plays the role of a messenger and a …

DNAzyme-based biosensors and nanodevices

L Gong, Z Zhao, YF Lv, SY Huan, T Fu… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
DNAzymes, screened through in vitro selection, have shown great promise as molecular
tools in the design of biosensors and nanodevices. The catalytic activities of DNAzymes …

Optical aptasensors for quantitative detection of small biomolecules: A review

C Feng, S Dai, L Wang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2014 - Elsevier
Aptasensors are aptamer-based biosensors with excellent recognition capability towards a
wide range of targets. Specially, there have been ever-growing interests in the development …

DNAzymes for sensing, nanobiotechnology and logic gate applications

I Willner, B Shlyahovsky, M Zayats… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic nucleic acids (DNAzymes or ribozymes) are selected by the systematic evolution of
ligands by exponential enrichment process (SELEX). The catalytic functions of DNAzymes or …