利用G四聚体可以熄灭荧光的特性以及T—Hg^2+-T的特殊结构,发展了一种简便的“Tumon”型碘离子检测新方法.设计了一条5′端标有荧光基团的富T序列,3′端采用能形成G四聚体的富G序列代替传统的熄灭基团.加入汞离子后,富T序列形成T—H^2+-T机构发生折叠,G四聚体靠近荧光基团,发生光诱导电子转移,使荧光被熄灭.若加入碘离子,碘离子会与汞离子形成较稳定的配合物,汞离子从DNA上被竞争下来,探针的荧光得以恢复,且荧光强度与50~500nmol/L的碘离子呈良好线性关系,检出限为30nmol/L.本方法选择性好,10倍于碘离子浓度的其它常见阴离子干扰较小.检测自来水样中碘离子的回收率为92%~109%,相对标准偏差RSD〈4%(n=4).
A simple and "Turn on" type iodide anion assay method was developed, based on the inherent quenching ability of G-quadruplex and fidelity of the "thymine-Hg^2+-thymine" binding motif. A T-rich sequence was labeled with 6-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) at its 5′-end, nearby the 3′-end was a G-rich sequence which could form G-quadruplex structure instead of traditional quenchers. Upon addition of Hg^2+ , T-rich sequence folded into a hairpin structure which led the G-quadruplex near to the FAM, and the FAM was quenched by the G-quadruplex owning to photoinduced electron transfer between the dye and the G-quadruplex. After the addition of iodide, the fluorescence of FAM recovered considering that iodide could bind with Hg^2+. The novel method for the determination of iodide was developed in linear range of 50-500 nmol/L, with the detection limit(3σ) of 30 nmol/L. This proposed method was highly selective and other anions have no interfering effects on the determination, which was successfully applied for analysis of real samples with the recovery from 92%-109% and the RSD〈4% (n=4).