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A free molecular beacon (MB), a short DNA probe, is quickly and quantitatively digested by DNase I in vitro within 15 minutes. To protect the MB from degradation, the authors adsorbed the MB onto a nanoscale graphene oxide (NGO) sheet through π-stacking interactions. The NGO sheet sterically shields the DNA probe by physically excluding the bulky DNase I enzyme from the DNA backbone of the MB. This protection is crucial to safely deliver the probe into a nuclease-rich cellular environment, where nucleases such as DNase I are abundant. In HeLa cells, the NGO-MB complex's protection remains. Confocal microscopy and flow cytometry show bright Cy5 fluorescence only when survivin mRNA is present, while the scrambled sequence control remains dark.
Fig. 1 NGO delivery of MB into HeLa cells to detect survivin mRNA. (Lu C H.; et al. 2010)
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