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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2015 Mar 17;44(10):3036–3055. doi: 10.1039/c5cs00020c

Figure 10.

Figure 10

Molecular beacons used for detection of biomolecules in solution. (A) Analysis of NAD+ using molecular beacon and E. coli DNA ligase. (B) Strategy of the catalytic DNAzyme molecular beacon cascade for amplified fluorescence detection of small biological molecules. Reprinted with permission from ref. 116. Copyright (2011) American Chemical Society. (C) Schematic illustration of the structure and working principle of a triplex molecular beacon-based universal SERS detector with amplified signal for the detection of multiple target analytes. Reprinted with permission from ref. 117. Copyright (2014) American Chemical Society.