Abstract

The development of highly sensitive and rapid methods for detecting DNA is of critical importance. Here, we describe a strategy for the digital detection of target DNA at the femto-molar level. Individual DNA molecules were encoded with a single gold nanorod (AuNR), separated and enriched by magnetic immune-separation. The coding gold nanorods were then de-hybridized and dispersed into a gold nanosphere (AuNS) solution at a certain concentration, and both gold nanoparticles were immobilized on glass slides for dark-field microscopic imaging. Using an in-house Matlab program, the concentration of the target DNA was calculated based on the ratio of the coding gold nanorods to gold nanospheres. By combining the coding of individual biomolecules with a single gold nanorod and the use of gold nanospheres as an internal standard, a method for the rapid and accurate digital detection of target DNA to the femto-molar level was developed.

Details

Title
Microscopic Differentiation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for the Ratiometric Read-out of Target DNA
Author
Wu, Zhenjie 1 ; Yang, Rui 2 ; Zu, Di 1 ; Sun, Shuqing 1 

 Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China; Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 
 Institute of Optical Imaging and Sensing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China 
Pages
1-9
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Nov 2017
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1961816205
Copyright
© 2017. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.