Molecular beacon based biosensor for the sequence-specific detection of DNA using DNA-capped gold nanoparticles-streptavidin conjugates for signal amplification

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 180, Issue 13-14, 2013, Pages 1271-1277

  Fang, Xian ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Han, Xiaowei ^a   Zhang, Yuzhong ^a  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugates; Electrochemical impedance spectra; Gold nanoparticles; Molecular beacon; Signal amplification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884204928     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-013-1044-1     Document Type: Article

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