title: Studies of temperature-dependent electronic transduction on DNA hairpin loop sensor.
abstract: A self-assembly monolayer (SAM) of hairpin DNA can be formed on a gold substrate in order to make special biosensors. Labeling the hairpin loop probes with electroactive compositions rather than a fluorophore illustrates interesting profiles of redox current versus temperature. For a biosensor interacting with perfectly complementary targets, the profile shows a characteristic plateau, which disappears when the targets have a single base variation. The plateau is split into multiple steps by tuning the hybridization temperature. We propose that the phenomena are due to hairpin loop compartmentalization. The novel characteristics lead to a thermal gradient detection method that permits perfect discrimination of a target sequence from single nucleotide mismatches.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Biophysics and Biotechnology, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Youdong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Chunxiong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ouyang
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D006046:Gold; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D006046:Gold; D004247:DNA