Browsing Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology by Author "Saran, Runjhun"
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Label-Free Ag+ Detection by Enhancing DNA Sensitized Tb3+ Luminescence
Kleinke, Kimberly; Saran, Runjhun; Liu, Juewen (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2016-08-26)In this work, the effect of Ag+ on DNA sensitized Tb3+ luminescence was studied initially using the Ag+-specific RNA-cleaving DNAzyme, Ag10c. While we expected to observe luminescence quenching by Ag+, a significant ... -
A New Na+-Dependent RNA-Cleaving DNAzyme with over 1000-fold Rate Acceleration by Ethanol
Zhou, Wenhu; Saran, Runjhun; Chen, Qingyun; Ding, Jinsong; Liu, Juewen (Wiley, 2016-01-15)Enzymes working in organic solvents are important for analytical chemistry, catalysis, and mechanistic studies. Although a few protein enzymes are highly active in organic solvents, little is known regarding nucleic ... -
Searching for a DNAzyme version of the leadzyme
Saran, Runjhun; Chen, Qingyun; Liu, Juewen (Springer, 2015-10-12)The leadzyme refers to a small ribozyme that cleaves a RNA substrate in the presence of Pb2+. In an optimized form, the enzyme strand contains only two unpaired nucleotides. Most RNA-cleaving DNAzymes are much longer. Two ... -
A Silver DNAzyme
Saran, Runjhun; Liu, Juewen (American Chemical Society, 2016-04-05)Silver is a very common heavy metal, and its detection is of significant analytical importance. DNAzymes are DNA-based catalysts; they typically recruit divalent and trivalent metal ions for catalysis. Herein, we report a ... -
Tandem DNAzymes for mRNA cleavage: choice of enzyme, metal ions and the antisense effect
Wang, Feng; Saran, Runjhun; Liu, Juewen (Elsevier, 2015-04-01)The concept of DNAzyme-based gene silencing via mRNA cleavage was proposed over twenty years ago. A number of studies regarding intracellular gene silencing have been reported as well. However, questions have been raised ...