Label-free and sensitive microRNA detection based on a target recycling amplification-integrated superlong poly(thymine)-hosted copper nanoparticle strategy.

Poly(thymine)-hosted copper nanoparticles (poly T-CuNPs) have emerged as a promising label-free fluorophore for bioanalysis, but its application in RNA-related studies is still rarely explored. Herein, by utilizing duplex-specific nuclease (DSN) as a convertor to integrate target recycling mechanism into terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated superlong poly T-CuNPs platform, a specific and sensitive method for microRNA detection has been developed. In this strategy, a 3'-phosphorylated DNA probe can hybridize with target RNA and then be cut by DSN to produce 3'-hydroxylated fragments, which can be further tailed by TdT with superlong poly T for fluorescent CuNPs synthesis. As proof of concept, an analysis of let-7d was achieved with a good linear correlation between 20 and 1000 pM (R2 = 0.9965) and a detection limit of 20 pM. Moreover, both homologous and heterologous microRNAs were also effectively discriminated. This strategy might pave a brand-new way for designing label-free and sensitive microRNA assays.

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