PMID- 35447396 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220524 LR - 20220524 IS - 1873-4235 (Electronic) IS - 0956-5663 (Linking) VI - 210 DP - 2022 Aug 15 TI - Plasmonic Au nanocube enhanced SERS biosensor based on heated electrode and strand displacement amplification for highly sensitive detection of Dam methyltransferase activity. PG - 114283 LID - S0956-5663(22)00323-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114283 [doi] AB - In this work, a novel "turn-on" mode Au nanocubes (AuNCs) enhanced surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) biosensing platform coupled with heated Au electrode (HAuE) and strand displacement amplification (SDA) strategy was proposed for highly sensitive detection of DNA adenine methylation (Dam) Methyltransferase (MTase) activity. The Dam MTase and DpnI enzyme activities were significantly increased by elevating the HAuE surface temperature, resulting in the rapid production of template DNA for later SDA. During the SDA process, the released single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) could be amplified exponentially, and its concentration was positively related to the Dam MTase activity. The plasmonic AuNCs in SERS tags could provide significant SERS enhancement due to their "lightning rod" effect resulting from the sharp feature of the edges and corners of AuNCs. Because of these factors, the proposed biosensors exhibited high sensitivity in detecting the Dam MTase activity. The limit of detection was estimated to be 8.65 x 10(-5) U mL(-1), which was lower than that in most of the sensors for detection of Dam MTase activity in the literature. This SERS biosensor could also be used to screen inhibitors of Dam MTase and had the potential for detecting Dam MTase activity in real biological samples. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Hu, Hao-Cheng AU - Hu HC AD - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, China. FAU - Wu, Shao-Hua AU - Wu SH AD - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, China. Electronic address: wsh@fzu.edu.cn. FAU - Jin, Lei-Xin AU - Jin LX AD - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, China. FAU - Sun, Jian-Jun AU - Sun JJ AD - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220412 PL - England TA - Biosens Bioelectron JT - Biosensors & bioelectronics JID - 9001289 RN - 0 (DNA, Single-Stranded) RN - EC 2.1.1.72 (Dam methyltransferase) RN - EC 2.1.1.72 (Site-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific)) SB - IM MH - *Biosensing Techniques/methods MH - DNA Methylation MH - DNA, Single-Stranded MH - Electrodes MH - Site-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific) OTO - NOTNLM OT - Au nanocube OT - Dam methyltransferase OT - Heated electrode OT - Strand displacement amplification (SDA) OT - Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) EDAT- 2022/04/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/05/25 06:00 CRDT- 2022/04/21 20:12 PHST- 2022/02/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/04/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/04/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/05/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/04/21 20:12 [entrez] AID - S0956-5663(22)00323-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114283 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biosens Bioelectron. 2022 Aug 15;210:114283. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114283. Epub 2022 Apr 12.