title: Designing a polycationic probe for simultaneous enrichment and detection of microRNAs in a nanopore.
abstract: The nanopore sensor can detect cancer-derived nucleic acid biomarkers such as microRNAs (miRNAs), providing a noninvasive tool potentially useful in medical diagnostics. However, the nanopore-based detection of these biomarkers remains confounded by the presence of numerous other nucleic acid species found in biofluid extracts. Their nonspecific interactions with the nanopore inevitably contaminate the target signals, reducing the detection accuracy. Here we report a novel method that utilizes a polycationic peptide-PNA probe as the carrier for selective miRNA detection in the nucleic acid mixture. The cationic probe hybridized with microRNA forms a dipole complex, which can be captured by the pore using a voltage polarity that is opposite the polarity used to capture negatively charged nucleic acids. As a result, nontarget species are driven away from the pore opening, and the target miRNA can be detected accurately without interference. In addition, we demonstrate that the PNA probe enables accurate discrimination of miRNAs with single-nucleotide difference. This highly sensitive and selective nanodielectrophoresis approach can be applied to the detection of clinically relevant nucleic acid fragments in complex samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Engineering and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Zhaojian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shi-Jie
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Li-Qun
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015195:Drug Design; D004560:Electricity; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015335:Molecular Probes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D058608:Nanopores; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D015335:Molecular Probes; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids; D010455:Peptides
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