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Using Antenna Tile-Assisted Substrate Delivery To Improve Detection Limits Of Deoxyribozyme, Amanda J. Cox
Using Antenna Tile-Assisted Substrate Delivery To Improve Detection Limits Of Deoxyribozyme, Amanda J. Cox
HIM 1990-2015
One common limitation of enzymatic reactions is the diffusion of a substrate to the enzyme active site and/or the release of the reaction products. These reactions are known as diffusion –controlled. Overcoming this limitation may enable faster catalytic rates, which in the case of catalytic biosensors can potentially lower limits of detection of specific analyte. Here we created an artificial system to enable deoxyribozyme (Dz) 10-23 based biosensor to overcome its diffusion limit. The sensor consists of the two probe strands, which bind to the analyzed nucleic acid by Watson-Crick base pairs and, upon binding re-form the catalytic core of …