Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-catalyzed homo-nucleotides-constituted ssDNA: Inducing tunable-size nanogap for core-shell plasmonic metal nanostructure and acting as Raman reporters for detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7

  • Yangyang Zhou
  • , Weina Fang
  • , Keqiang Lai
  • , Yongheng Zhu
  • , Xiaojun Bian
  • , Jianlei Shen
  • , Qian Li
  • , Lihua Wang
  • , Weijia Zhang
  • , Juan Yan*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Core-shell plasmonic metal nanoparticles with interior nanogaps are superior nanostructures owing to their large signal enhancement for Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Herein, we incorporated Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-catalyzed DNA in the preparation of core-shell nanostructures for the detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) cells. The elongated products-homo-nucleotides-composed of long single DNA strands (hn-D) are used not only to induce tunable-size nanogaps but also as Raman reporters with consistent and uniform signal enhancement. Using this synthetic process of hn-D-embedded core-shell nanoparticles (hn-DENPs), we found that the length of hn-D strands affects the size of the nanogap. In addition, performances of the specific Raman imaging of E. coli O157:H7, high detection sensitivity of 2 CFU/mL, and the recovery of 98.1%–105.2% measured in the real food samples, make hn-DENP a biosensor that will be widely used in biological detection.

Original languageEnglish
Article number111419
JournalBiosensors and Bioelectronics
Volume141
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Sep 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bacterial detection
  • Core-shell nanostructures
  • Nanogap
  • Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
  • Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)

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