Nucleic acid enzyme sensor

Abstract

A method of DNAzyme activity in a fluid by a sensor that is manufactured as follows. A method of manufacturing a fiber optic surface plasmon resonance sensor tip for sensing DNAzyme activity in a fluid, the method comprising, a) providing an fiber optic surface plasmon resonance sensor (FO-SPR) tip comprising at least one first single strand DNA with distinct sequence (immobilized on the sensing surface of said the fiber optic surface plasmon resonance sensor tip, b) providing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) comprising a second single strand DNA with distinct sequence immobilized on said the gold nanoparticles, c) providing a third distinct DNA sequence ligation template for said first and second single strand for DNA hybridizing the third distinct DNA sequence ligation template in part with said the first single strand DNA and in part with the second single strand DNA to form one FO-SPR probe and AuNP-probe complex and d) providing a selected ligase to ligate together to a selected single strand DNA construct between AuNP and FO-SPR adapted to function as a selected DNAzyme FO-SPR-AuNP-probe. An aspect of present invention is a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) real-time monitoring system of NAzyme cleavage activity manufactured by ligation of a metallic nanoparticle (NP)-labelled DNA-sequences to a SPR sensing surface and yet more particular by ligation of AuNP-labelled DNA-sequences to a FO-SPR gold surface. Furthermore, incorporation of temporary inactivating the NAzyme with an inhibitor strand or a NAzyme blocking DNA sequence, containing an internal loop for target recognition independent of the catalytic activity from the NAzyme binding arms in the SPR sensor, e.g. FO-SPR sensor, allows real-time monitoring system of NAzyme cleavage activity in function of binding of selected targets (peptides, polypeptides, protein, small molecules, nucleotides, fat groups) to the internal loop of said the inhibitor strand.

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