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Plug-and-play protein biosensors using aptamer-regulated in vitro transcription.


ABSTRACT: Molecular biosensors that accurately measure protein concentrations without external equipment are critical for solving numerous problems in diagnostics and therapeutics. Modularly transducing the binding of protein antibodies, protein switches or aptamers into a useful output remains challenging. Here, we develop a biosensing platform based on aptamer-regulated transcription in which aptamers integrated into transcription templates serve as inputs to molecular circuits that can be programmed to a produce a variety of responses. We modularly design molecular biosensors using this platform by swapping aptamer domains for specific proteins and downstream domains that encode different RNA transcripts. By coupling aptamer-regulated transcription with diverse transduction circuits, we rapidly construct analog protein biosensors or digital protein biosensors with detection ranges that can be tuned over two orders of magnitude. Aptamer-regulated transcription is a straightforward and inexpensive approach for constructing programmable protein biosensors suitable for diverse research and diagnostic applications.

SUBMITTER: Lee H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461910 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Plug-and-play protein biosensors using aptamer-regulated in vitro transcription.

Lee Heonjoon H   Xie Tian T   Yu Xinjie X   Schaffter Samuel W SW   Schulman Rebecca R  

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20230814


Molecular biosensors that accurately measure protein concentrations without external equipment are critical for solving numerous problems in diagnostics and therapeutics. Modularly transducing the binding of protein antibodies, protein switches or aptamers into a useful output remains challenging. Here, we develop a biosensing platform based on aptamer-regulated transcription in which aptamers integrated into transcription templates serve as inputs to molecular circuits that can be programmed to  ...[more]

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