Abstract
SummarySingle-base changes lead to important biological and biomedical implications; however, the discrimination of single-base changes from normal DNA always remains a grand challenge. Herein we developed a DNA recognition and amplification system based on artificial branched DNA, namely, target-triggered polymerization (TTP), to realize enzyme-free and fast discrimination of single-base changes. Branched DNA as monomers rapidly polymerized into DNA nanospheres only with the trigger of specific DNA. Our TTP system worked reliably over a wide range of conditions. Remarkably, our TTP system was capable of discriminating base-changing DNA from normal DNA, including distinguishing 1–4 nucleotide changes and positions of single base, which was attributed to the significant amplification of small differences in hybridization thermodynamics and kinetics. We further proposed a theoretical method for calculating the hybridization probability of nucleic acids, which performed highly consistent with experimental results.
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