It
is intriguing to modulate the fluorescence emission of DNA-scaffolded
silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) via confined strand displacement and transient
concatenate ligation for amplifiable biosensing of a DNA segment related
to SARS-CoV-2 (s
2DNA). Herein, three stem-loop
structural hairpins for signaling, recognizing, and assisting are
designed to assemble a variant three-way DNA device (3WDD) with the
aid of two linkers, in which orange-emitting AgNC (oAgNC) is stably clustered and populated in the closed loop of a hairpin
reporter. The presence of s
2DNA initiates
the toehold-mediated strand displacement that is confined in this
3WDD for repeatable recycling amplification, outputting numerous hybrid
DNA-duplex conformers that are implemented for a transient “head–tail–head”
tandem ligation one by one. As a result, the oAgNC-hosted
hairpin loops are quickly opened in loose coil motifs, bringing a
significant fluorescence decay of multiple clusters dependent on s
2DNA. Demonstrations and understanding of the
tunable spectral performance of a hairpin loop-wrapped AgNC via switching
3WDD conformation would be highly beneficial to open a new avenue
for applicable biosensing, bioanalysis, or clinical diagnostics.
Designing antibody-powered DNA nanodevice switches is crucial and fascinating to perform a variety of functions in response to specific antibodies as regulatory inputs, achieving the highly sensitive detection by integrating...
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