. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 4.

Published in final edited form as: Lab Chip. 2013 Oct 7;13(19):3921–3928. doi: 10.1039/c3lc50654a

Table 1.

Information of the three aptamers for bacterium sensing

Aptamers	Sequences (5′–3′)	Dissociation constant (K_d)
L. acidophilus (FALA)^a	cy3-ATC CGT CAC ACC TGC TCT ACG GCG CTC CCA ACA GGC CTC TCC TTA CGG CAT ATT ATG GTG TTG GCT CCC GTA T	13 nM⁴⁹
S. aureus (FASA)^a	cy3-GCA ATG GTA CGG TAC TTC CTC GGC ACG TTC TCA GTA GCG CTC GCT GGT CAT CCC ACA GCT ACG TCA AAA GTG CAC GCT ACT TTG CTA A	35 nM⁵²
S. enterica (FASE)^a	cy3-TAT GGC GGC GTC ACC CGA CGG GGA CTT GAC ATT ATG ACA G	Unknown

FALA, FASA and FASE refer to different fluorescent aptamers for L. acidophilus, S. aureus and S. enterica, respectively.