An ultrasensitive peroxidase DNAzyme-associated aptasensor that utilizes a target-triggered enzymatic signal amplification strategy.

By rationally employing enzymes for signal amplification, an ultrasensitive aptasensor was developed and successfully tested in a system designed to detect lysozyme with a detection limit of 0.1 fM. This detection limit is nearly three orders of magnitude lower than those of any previously reported DNAzyme-based aptasensors.

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