Abstract
Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is a broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotic, and its excessive residues in food and water sources pose potential risks to human health. Therefore, there is a need for a rapid and convenient method for its accurate quantification. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas12a system has gained extensive application in signal detection and amplification due to the trans-cleavage activity of Cas12a. In this study, we devised a novel magnetic bead-based dual sandwich aptamer coupled with a CRISPR/Cas12a system for the precise quantification of CIP in milk, river water, and honey. Through the incorporation of a magnetic bead-based dual aptamer sandwich approach, the concentration of CIP in the samples was pre-enriched. Additionally, by optimizing the Fluorescence-Quencher (F-Q) probe concentration, detection aptamer (APTd) concentration, and assay duration, the limit of blank (LOB) of the system was determined as 362nM, while the limit of detection (LOD) was determined as 403nM. This enabled the accurate quantification of CIP within the linear range of 0.5μM to 0.2mM with high specificity. Moreover, the performance of this detection method was comparable to that of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in river water, milk, and honey samples.
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