Fabrication of a colorimetric biosensing platform for the detection of protein-DNA interaction.

Protein-DNA interaction plays important roles in many cellular processes, and there is an urgent demand for valid methods to monitor the interaction. In view of this, we propose a simple label-free colorimetric platform for the detection of protein-DNA interaction. Protein-DNA couples together with peroxidase-mimicking DNAzyme and exonuclease are elaborately incorporated into an integrated biosensing system. Besides the simplicity and efficiency, the strategy also has a great advantage for its universality in the detection of different protein-DNA couples. In our experiments, effective validation of our approach can be supported by two different protein-DNA couples (estrogen receptor α and nuclear factor kappa B). Experimental results show that the DNAzyme is competent to give rise to evident readout signals to monitor protein-DNA couples. Furthermore, with the substitution of DNA binding sequence in the probe, this method could be extended to a general platform for the detection of protein-DNA interaction.

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