Abstract
Toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement provides unique advantages in the construction and manipulation of multidimensional DNA nanostructures as well as nucleic acid sequence analysis. We demonstrate a step change in the use of toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement reactions, where a double-stranded DNA duplex, containing a single-stranded toehold domain, enzymatically generated and then treated as a molecular target for analysis. The approach was successfully implemented for human DNA genotyping, such as gender identification where the amelogenin gene was used as a model target system, and detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms of human mitochondrial DNA. Kinetics of the strand displacement was monitored by the quenched Förster resonance energy transfer effect.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5612-5619 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 135 |
| Issue number | 15 |
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| Publication status | Published - 17 Apr 2013 |