Open Bridge-Structured Gold Nanoparticle Array for Label-Free DNA Detection

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Abstract

We focused on changes in the electrical property of the open bridge-structured gold nanoparticles array consisting of 46-nm parent and 12-nm son gold nanoparticles by hybridization and applied it for a simple electrical DNA detection. Since a target DNA of a 24-mer oligonucleotide was added to the probe DNA modified 12-nm Au nanoparticles, which was arranged on the gap between the 46-nm Au particles, the response was read by an electrical readout system. Even in a simple measuring method, we obtained a rapid response to the cDNA with a high S/N ratio of 30 over a wide concentration range and a detection limit of 5.0 fmol. Moreover, the array discriminated 1-base mismatches, regardless of their location in the DNA sequence, which enabled us to detect single-nucleotide polymorphism, which is one of the important diagnoses, without any polymerase chain reaction amplification, sophisticated instrumentation, or fluorescent labeling through an easy-to-handle electrical readout system.

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