Browsing by Author "Lu, Yanyan"

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    Dual-emission single sensing element-assembled fluorescent sensor arrays for the rapid discrimination of multiple surfactants in environments
    (American Chemical Society, 2024-03-11) Wei, Dali; Zhang, Hu; Tao, Yu; Wang, Kaixuan; Wang, Ying; Deng, Chunmeng; Xu, Rongfei; Zhu, Nuanfei; Lu, Yanyan; Zeng, Kun; Yang, Zhugen; Zhang, Zhen
    Surfactants are considered as typical emerging pollutants, their extensive use of in disinfectants has hugely threatened the ecosystem and human health, particularly during the pandemic of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), whereas the rapid discrimination of multiple surfactants in environments is still a great challenge. Herein, we designed a fluorescent sensor array based on luminescent metal–organic frameworks (UiO-66-NH2@Au NCs) for the specific discrimination of six surfactants (AOS, SDS, SDSO, MES, SDBS, and Tween-20). Wherein, UiO-66-NH2@Au NCs were fabricated by integrating UiO-66-NH2 (2-aminoterephthalic acid-anchored-MOFs based on zirconium ions) with gold nanoclusters (Au NCs), which exhibited a dual-emission features, showing good luminescence. Interestingly, due to the interactions of surfactants and UiO-66-NH2@Au NCs, the surfactants can differentially regulate the fluorescence property of UiO-66-NH2@Au NCs, producing diverse fluorescent “fingerprints”, which were further identified by pattern recognition methods. The proposed fluorescence sensor array achieved 100% accuracy in identifying various surfactants and multicomponent mixtures, with the detection limit in the range of 0.0032 to 0.0315 mM for six pollutants, which was successfully employed in the discrimination of surfactants in real environmental waters. More importantly, our findings provided a new avenue in rapid detection of surfactants, rendering a promising technique for environmental monitoring against trace multicontaminants.
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    Exploiting the potential of spherical PAM antenna for enhanced CRISPR-Cas12a: a paradigm shift toward a universal amplification-free nucleic acid test platform
    (American Chemical Society, 2025-01-09) Dai, Jiahui; Wu, Beibei; Ai, Fengxiang; Yang, Zhugen; Lu, Yanyan; Zinian, Cai; Zeng, Kun; Zhang, Zhen
    The CRISPR-Cas12a system has shown tremendous potential for developing efficient biosensors. Albeit important, current CRISPR-Cas system-based diagnostic technologies (CRISPR-DX) highly rely on an additional preamplification procedure to obtain high sensitivity, inevitably leading to issues such as complicated assay workflow, cross-contamination, etc. Herein, a spherical protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM)-antenna-enhanced CRISPR-Cas12a system is fabricated for universal amplification-free nucleic acid detection with a detection limit of subfemtomolar. Meanwhile, the clinical detection capability of this sensor was further verified using gold-standard real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction through Mycobacterium tuberculosis measurement, which demonstrated its good reliability for practical applications. Importantly, its excellent sensitivity is mainly ascribed to high efficiency of target search induced by a localized PAM-enriched microenvironment and improved catalytic activity of Cas12a (up to 4 folds). Our strategy provides some new insights for rapid and sensitive detection of nucleic acids in an amplification-free fashion.