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Electrogenerated chemiluminescence aptamer-based biosensor for the determination of cocaine Export

Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 9, No. 10. (October 2007), pp. 2571-2575.

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A novel electrogenerated chemiluminescence aptamer-based (ECL-AB) biosensor for the determination of a small molecule drug is designed employing cocaine-binding aptamer as molecular recognition element for cocaine as a model analyte and ruthenium complex served as an ECL label. A 5'-terminal cocaine-binding aptamer with the ECL label at 3'-terminal of the aptamer was utilized as an ECL probe. The ECL-AB biosensors were fabricated by immobilizing the ECL probe onto a gold electrode surface via thiol-Au interactions. An enhanced ECL signal is generated upon recognition of the target cocaine, attributed to a change in the conformation of the ECL probe from random coil-like configuration on the probe-modified film to three-way junction structure, in close proximity to the sensor interface. The integrated ECL intensity versus the concentration of cocaine was linear in the range from 5.0 x 10-9 to 3.0 x 10-7 M. The detection limit was 1.0 x 10-9 M. This work demonstrates that the combination of a highly binding aptamer to analyte with a highly sensitive ECL technique to design ECL-AB biosensor is a great promising approach for the determination of small molecule drugs.


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