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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Optical fiber nanotips coated with molecular beacons for DNA detection.

Ambra Giannetti, Andrea Barucci, Franco Cosi, Stefano Pelli, Sara Tombelli, Cosimo Trono, Francesco Baldini

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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7 authors.

Ambra GiannettiCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. a.giannetti@ifac.cnr.it.
Andrea BarucciCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. a.barucci@ifac.cnr.it.
Franco CosiCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. f.cosi@ifac.cnr.it.
Stefano PelliCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. s.pelli@ifac.cnr.it.
Sara TombelliCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. s.tombelli@ifac.cnr.it.
Cosimo TronoCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. c.trono@ifac.cnr.it.
Francesco BaldiniCNR-Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. f.baldini@ifac.cnr.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical fiber sensors, thanks to their compactness, fast response and real-time measurements, have a large impact in the fields of life science research, drug discovery and medical diagnostics. In recent years, advances in nanotechnology have resulted in the development of nanotools, capable of entering the single cell, resulting in new nanobiosensors useful for the detection of biomolecules inside living cells. In this paper, we provide an application of a nanotip coupled with molecular beacons (MBs) for the detection of DNA. The MBs were characterized by hybridization studies with a complementary target to prove their functionality both free in solution and immobilized onto a solid support. The solid support chosen as substrate for the immobilization of the MBs was a 30 nm tapered tip of an optical fiber, fabricated by chemical etching. With this set-up promising results were obtained and a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.57 nM was reached, opening up the possibility of using the proposed nanotip to detect mRNAs inside the cytoplasm of living cells.

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Optical FibersBiosensing TechniquesDNANanotechnologyNucleic Acid HybridizationDNA

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PMID25919369
PMCPMC4481987

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