A bipedal DNA nanowalker fueled by catalytic assembly for imaging of base-excision repairing in living cells.

Chemical Science
Meng-Mei LvJian-Hui Jiang

Abstract

DNA nanowalkers moving progressively along a prescribed DNA track are useful tools in biosensing, molecular theranostics and biosynthesis. However, stochastic DNA nanowalkers that can perform in living cells have been largely unexplored. We report the development of a novel stochastic bipedal DNA walker that, for the first time, realizes direct intracellular base excision repair (BER) fluorescence activation imaging. In our design, the bipedal walker DNA was generated by BER-related human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1)-mediated cleavage of DNA sequences at an abasic site in the intracellular environment, and it autonomously travelled on spherical nucleic acid (SNA) surfaces via catalyzed hairpin assembly (CHA). Our nanomachine outperforms the conventional single leg-based DNA walker with an improved sensitivity, kinetics and walking steps. Moreover, in contrast to the single leg-based DNA walker, the bipedal DNA walker is capable of monitoring the fluorescence signal of reduced APE1 activity, thus indicating amplified intracellular imaging. This bipedal DNA-propelled DNA walker presents a simple and modular amplification mechanism for intracellular biomarkers of interest, providing an invaluable platform for low-ab...Continue Reading

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BETA
biosensors
fluorescence imaging
electrophoresis
total internal reflection
transfection
confocal microscopy

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