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T1 - A review on nanostructure-based mercury (II) detection and monitoring focusing on aptamer and oligonucleotide biosensors
AU - Şahin, Samet
AU - Caglayan, Mustafa Oguzhan
AU - Üstündağ, Zafer
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Heavy metal ion pollution is a severe problem in environmental protection and especially in human health due to their bioaccumulation in organisms. Mercury (II) (Hg2+), even at low concentrations, can lead to DNA damage and give permanent harm to the central nervous system by easily passing through biological membranes. Therefore, sensitive detection and monitoring of Hg2+ is of particular interest with significant specificity. In this review, aptamer-based strategies in combination with nanostructures as well as several other strategies to solve addressed problems in sensor development for Hg2+ are discussed in detail. In particular, the analytical performance of different aptamer and oligonucleotide-based strategies using different signal improvement approaches based on nanoparticles were compared within each strategy and in between. Although quite a number of the suggested methodologies analyzed in this review fulfills the standard requirements, further development is still needed on real sample analysis and analytical performance parameters.
AB - Heavy metal ion pollution is a severe problem in environmental protection and especially in human health due to their bioaccumulation in organisms. Mercury (II) (Hg2+), even at low concentrations, can lead to DNA damage and give permanent harm to the central nervous system by easily passing through biological membranes. Therefore, sensitive detection and monitoring of Hg2+ is of particular interest with significant specificity. In this review, aptamer-based strategies in combination with nanostructures as well as several other strategies to solve addressed problems in sensor development for Hg2+ are discussed in detail. In particular, the analytical performance of different aptamer and oligonucleotide-based strategies using different signal improvement approaches based on nanoparticles were compared within each strategy and in between. Although quite a number of the suggested methodologies analyzed in this review fulfills the standard requirements, further development is still needed on real sample analysis and analytical performance parameters.
KW - Aptamers
KW - Biosensors
KW - Hg detection
KW - Nanomaterials
KW - Oligonucleotide probes
U2 - 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121437
DO - 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121437
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32928439
AN - SCOPUS:85088658794
VL - 220
JO - Talanta
JF - Talanta
SN - 0039-9140
M1 - 121437
ER -