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ArticleNature communications2024

Plug-and-play protein biosensors using aptamer-regulated in vitro transcription.

Heonjoon Lee, Tian Xie, Byunghwa Kang, Xinjie Yu, Samuel W Schaffter, Rebecca Schulman

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Information Theory-Guided Detection of Biomarkers Using Programmable Aptamer Arrays.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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  9. Rolling circle transcription-based fluorescent aptasensor for highly sensitive and onsite detection of microcystin-LR.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2025
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  12. Current biosensing strategies based on in vitro T7 RNA polymerase reaction.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Heonjoon LeeBiomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5129-5740
Tian XieBiochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-7759-2032
Byunghwa KangInstitute for Nanobiotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Xinjie YuChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-3634-8551
Samuel W SchaffterNational Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. samuel.schaffter@nist.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-7259-7374
Rebecca SchulmanChemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. rschulm3@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4555-3162

Funding

Secretion responsive Hydrogels for Identification of Functional single T cells (SHIFT)R21CA251027 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SCHULMAN, REBECCA · 2021 to 2023
$565k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA251027United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Laboratory (U.S. Army Research Laboratory) W911NF2220246United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office (ARO) W911NF2010057U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R21CA251027-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular biosensors that accurately measure protein concentrations without external equipment are critical for solving numerous problems in diagnostics and therapeutics. Modularly transducing the binding of protein antibodies, protein switches or aptamers into a useful output remains challenging. Here, we develop a biosensing platform based on aptamer-regulated transcription in which aptamers integrated into transcription templates serve as inputs to molecular circuits that can be programmed to a produce a variety of responses. We modularly design molecular biosensors using this platform by swapping aptamer domains for specific proteins and downstream domains that encode different RNA transcripts. By coupling aptamer-regulated transcription with diverse transduction circuits, we rapidly construct analog protein biosensors and digital protein biosensors with detection ranges that can be tuned over two orders of magnitude and can exceed the binding affinity of the aptamer. Aptamer-regulated transcription is a straightforward and inexpensive approach for constructing programmable protein biosensors that could have diverse applications in research and biotechnology.

Indexed as

Aptamers, NucleotideBiosensing TechniquesTranscription, GeneticHumansProteinsAptamers, NucleotideProteins

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PMID39266511
PMCPMC11393120

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