Abstract
Exposure to heavy metal pollution represents a serious health risk and requires rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection to protect human health. However, the existing methods had various limitations for simultaneous detection of heavy metals. Herein, a novel two-in-one integrated bioassay was constructed for simultaneous on-site determination of Hg2+ and Pb2+ through combining all-fiber bicolor fluorescence biosensor (ABFB), functional nucleic acids (FNAs), and FRET. Hg2+ biosensor, consisting of BQ-T14 and CY-A14, performed its detection based on specifical binding of Hg2+ and T bases to form T-Hg2+-T mismatch structure. GR-5 DNAzyme, consisting of GR-5S and GR-5E, is applied for Pb2+ biosensor. The higher concentration of Hg2+ and Pb2+ results in the more T-Hg2+-T mismatch structure formed and the GR-5E to cleave the more GR-5S, respectively, thus allowing higher detectable fluorescence intensities in two signal channels. Thanks to high selectivity of two FNAs-biosensors and excellent time-resolved effect of the ABFB, the Hg2+ and Pb2+ could be directly and simultaneously quantitated in 12 min, and had the LODs of 4.22 nM and 1.55 nM, respectively. The satisfied recovery rate of real samples was verified by ICP-OES. Our strategy could serve as a simple and cost-effective on-site high-frequency detection of heavy metal ions.
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