PMID- 24776730 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150804 LR - 20161125 IS - 1364-5528 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2654 (Linking) VI - 139 IP - 12 DP - 2014 Jun 21 TI - Label-free selective SERS detection of PCB-77 based on DNA aptamer modified SiO(2)@Au core/shell nanoparticles. PG - 3083-7 LID - 10.1039/c4an00197d [doi] AB - A label-free approach to selective detection of 3,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB77) using aptamer modified silica-Au/core-shell nanoparticles (denoted as SiO2@Au core/shell NPs) through surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy was proposed. The devised system consisted of SiO2@Au core/shell NPs fixed on the amino-silane functionalized glass slides with the PCB77-binding aptamers attached covalently to the gold surfaces through a thiol linker. The aptamers made of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) oligomers with one end standing on the Au surface changed the conformation upon conjugation with PCB77, which correspondingly caused the spectral response of the ssDNA oligomers. The intensity ratio I(660 cm(-1))/I(736 cm(-1)) decreased with the amount of PCB77 added, which thus allowed us to measure trace amounts of PCB77 in a selective and quantitative way. This work therefore demonstrates that the design of aptamer-modified SiO2@Au core/shell NPs can be utilized for label-free SERS detection of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment. FAU - Lu, Yilin AU - Lu Y AD - Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bio-engineering, Institute of Technical Biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, PR China. huangq@ipp.ac.cn. FAU - Huang, Qing AU - Huang Q FAU - Meng, Guowen AU - Meng G FAU - Wu, Lijun AU - Wu L FAU - Jingjing, Zhang AU - Jingjing Z LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140429 PL - England TA - Analyst JT - The Analyst JID - 0372652 RN - 0 (Aptamers, Nucleotide) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) RN - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) RN - Y2I6546TMI (3,4,3',4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl) SB - IM MH - *Aptamers, Nucleotide MH - Base Sequence MH - *Nanoparticles MH - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis MH - Silicon Dioxide/*chemistry EDAT- 2014/04/30 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/05 06:00 CRDT- 2014/04/30 06:00 PHST- 2014/04/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/04/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/05 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1039/c4an00197d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Analyst. 2014 Jun 21;139(12):3083-7. doi: 10.1039/c4an00197d. Epub 2014 Apr 29.