DNA walkers for biosensing development

L Song, Y Zhuge, X Zuo, M Li, F Wang - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to design nanostructures with arbitrary shapes and controllable motions has
made DNA nanomaterials used widely to construct diverse nanomachines with various …

DNA nanotechnology-enabled drug delivery systems

Q Hu, H Li, L Wang, H Gu, C Fan - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

Integrating reliable Pt–S bond-mediated 3D DNA nanomachine with magnetic separation in a homogeneous electrochemical strategy for exosomal MicroRNA …

L Yang, H Guo, Q Gao, T Hou, J Zhang, X Liu… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Precise and sensitive analysis of exosomal microRNA (miRNA) is of great importance for
noninvasive early disease diagnosis, but it remains a great challenge to detect exosomal …

A cargo-sorting DNA robot

AJ Thubagere, W Li, RF Johnson, Z Chen, S Doroudi… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Since the 1980s, the design and synthesis of molecular machines has
been identified as a grand challenge for molecular engineering. Robots are an important …

Applications of catalytic hairpin assembly reaction in biosensing

J Liu, Y Zhang, H Xie, L Zhao, L Zheng, H Ye - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids are considered as perfect programmable materials for cascade signal
amplification and not merely as genetic information carriers. Among them, catalytic hairpin …

[HTML][HTML] A microRNA-initiated DNAzyme motor operating in living cells

H Peng, XF Li, H Zhang, XC Le - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic DNA motors have great potential to mimic natural protein motors in cells but the
operation of synthetic DNA motors in living cells remains challenging and has not been …

An Enzymatically Gated Catalytic Hairpin Assembly Delivered by Lipid Nanoparticles for the Tumor‐Specific Activation of Signal Amplification in miRNA Imaging

Q Liu, Y Huang, Z Li, L Li, Y Zhao, M Li - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNA (miRNA) imaging in disease sites is vital to elucidate their role in cancer
progression. However, limited tumor specificity remains a major barrier for traditional …

Upconversion luminescence-activated DNA nanodevice for ATP sensing in living cells

J Zhao, J Gao, W Xue, Z Di, H Xing… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Designer DNA nanodevices have attracted extensive interest for detection of specific targets
in living cells. However, it still remains a great challenge to construct DNA sensing devices …

An exonuclease III‐powered, on‐particle stochastic DNA walker

X Qu, D Zhu, G Yao, S Su, J Chao, H Liu… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐based machines have attracted rapidly growing interest owing to their potential in drug
delivery, biocomputing, and diagnostic applications. Herein, we report a type of exonuclease …

A self‐serviced‐track 3D DNA walker for ultrasensitive detection of tumor exosomes by glycoprotein profiling

H Wang, J Zeng, J Huang, H Cheng… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sensitive and accurate analysis of low‐concentration of tumor‐derived exosomes (Exos) in
biofluids is essential for noninvasive cancer diagnosis but is still challenging due to the lack …