Lingling Huang, Yi Zhou, Liang Xu, Xin Ruan, Zhao Huang, Yue Ke, Lisong Lin and Qiuling Tang
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Abstract
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of oral cancer. In recent years, researchers have found a close relationship between microRNAs (miRNAs) and OSCC. In addition, miRNAs are highly stable in tissues and circulation, and are also considered potential biomarkers for cancer detection and prognosis. Among a variety of tools for miRNAs with low abundance, single red-emitting UCNP-based biosensors have attracted special interest due to their unique properties, including deep organizational penetration, weak radiation damage, and low autofluorescence. Additionally, the measurement of low-abundance analytes via enzyme-free signal amplification is also an effective means. Herein, by taking advantage of red-emitting UCNPs and an enzyme-toehold-mediated strand displacement cascade, a dual-signal amplification biosensor was constructed. The recycled miRNA can be regarded as a catalyst for the assembly of multiple H1/H2 duplexes, which promoted the response signal of augmented analyte expression. Moreover, the proposed biosensors improved the measurement accuracy via a dual-signal response to obviously avert false-positive signals. The proposed method was applied to measure miRNA-222 (a model analyte) in serum samples, and the results were similar to those of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), with spiked recoveries ranging from 91.2% to 101.7%. The proposed assay has the merits of high sensitivity, strong recognition, and low background, indicating broad potential for the measurement of diverse analytes in biological samples.
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