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. 2020 Mar 3;10(3):21. doi: 10.3390/bios10030021

Table 1.

Fluorescent aptasensors for the detection of antimicrobial residues in food products.

Detection Technique Antimicrobial Family Analyte Food Product Fluorophore/Quencher
or Intercalating Dye * or Signal Labels
Limit of detection (LOD) (nM or ng/mL) References
FRET AMGL Kanamycin Milk CDs/AuNPs 18 nM (10.5 ng/mL) [72]
FRET Kanamycin Milk CDs/l-MoS2 NSs 1.1 μM (640.9 ng/mL) [73]
FRET Kanamycin Milk FAM/rGO 1 pM (0.583 pg/mL) [42]
FRET Kanamycin Milk FAM/AuNPs (+ exonuclease III) 321 pM (0.19 ng/mL) [74]
FRET Kanamycin Milk BHQ1/GO QDs 6 pg/mL [75]
FRET Kanamycin Milk FAM/AuNPs 0.3 nM (0.175 ng/mL) [76]
FRET Neomycin B Milk FAM/AuNPs 0.01 μM (6.15 ng/mL) [77]
FRET BL Benzylpenicillin Milk FAM/rGO 9.2 nM (3.1 ng/mL) [78]
FRET PHENI CAP Honey FAM/BHQ1 1.2 nM (0.39 ng/mL) [79]
FRET CAP Milk FAM/BHQ1 0.70 ng/mL [80]
FRET CAP Honey FAM/BHQ1 0.285 pg/mL [81]
FRET CAP Milk DSAC2N/GO 1.26 pg/mL [82]
FRET CAP Milk CdTe QDs/GO 0.2 ng/mL [83]
FRET CAP Milk, shrimp FAM/ZrP MOF (PCN-222) 0.08 pg/mL [84]
FRET CAP Milk, fish SYBR Green I/Cu-TCPP MOFs NSs 0.3 pg/mL [85]
FRET CAP Milk QDs/AuNPs 3 pg/mL [86]
FRET CAP Milk QDs/AuNPs 0.3 pM (0.097 pg/mL) [87]
FRET Florfenicol Milk ATTO 647N/GO 5.75 nM (2.06 ng/mL) [58]
FRET QUINO Ofloxacin Milk RB/AuNPs 4.61 nM (1.66 ng/mL) [88]
FRET Enrofloxacin Milk Enrofloxacin/GO 3.7 nM (1.33 ng/mL) [89]
FRET TETRA OTC Milk FAM/BHQ1 6.44 nM (2.96 ng/mL) [90]
FRET SULFA SDMX Milk FAM/CPNBs 10 ng/mL [91]
FRET MULTI SDMX, kanamycin, ampicillin Milk Apt1-Cy3, Apt2-FAM, Apt3-Cy5/GO (+ DNase I) 1.997, 2.664, 2.337 ng/mL [47]
Fluorescence AMGL Kanamycin Milk TO * 59 nM (34.4 ng/mL) [92]
Fluorescence Kanamycin Milk Thioflavin T + Apt + cDNA1 + cDNA2 0.33 nM (0.19 ng/mL) [93]
Fluorescence Streptomycin Milk SYBR Gold dye * (+ exonuclease III) 54.5 nM (31.7 ng/mL) [94]
Fluorescence Streptomycin Milk QDs (self-quenching) 0.03 ng/mL [95]
Fluorescence PHENI CAP Milk, fish SYBR green * 0.033 pg/mL [96]
Fluorescence CAP Fish SSB/DIL-Lip vesicle 1 pM (0.32 pg/mL) [97]
Fluorescence CAP Milk BSA-AuNCs/CAP 33 nM (10.7 ng/mL) [98]
Fluorescence CAP Milk Apt- Fe3O4 MNPs + cDNA-UCNPs 0.01 ng/mL [99]
Fluorescence TETRA OTC Milk Apt- Fe3O4 MNPs + cDNA-UCNPs 0.036 ng/mL [100]
Fluorescence Tetracycline Milk TO * 29 ng/mL [101]
Fluorescence Tetracycline Milk, pork meat UCNPs (+ Fe3O4 MNPs) 0.0062 ng/mL [102]
Fluorescence TTC, CTC, OTC, doxycycline Milk NMM + Apt + cDNA1 + cDNA2 4.6 ng/mL [103]
Fluorescence SULFA Sulfadimethoxine Fish MNPs-Apt + NaYF4: Yb, Tm UCNPs-cDNA 0.11 ng/mL [104]
Fluorescence MULTI CAP, kanamycin Milk, fish SYBR gold * 0.52 pg/mL, 0.41 pg/mL [46]
Fluorescence OTC, kanamycin Pig muscle, milk, honey Apt-MNPs + cDNA1-FAM + cDNA2-ROX 0.85 ng/mL, 0.92 ng/mL [105]
FPIA PHENI CAP Honey FAM/GO/Streptavidin 0.5 pM (0.162 pg/mL) [106]
FALIA AMGL Kanamycin Milk CNPs-Apt 5.10−8 ng/mL [107]
SPEET + fluorescence AMGL Kanamycin Milk AuNPs-Apt + AgNCs 1 nM (0.58 ng/mL) [108]

AgNCs, silver nanoclusters; AgNPs, silver nanoparticles; AMGL, aminoglycosides; Apt-MNPs, aptamer-modified magnetic nanoparticles; AuNPs, gold nanoparticles; BHQ1, black hole quencher 1; BL, beta-lactams; BSA-AuNCs, bovine serum albumin-stabilized Au nanoclusters; CAP, chloramphenicol; CDs, carbon dots; CdTe QDs, cadmium telluride quantum dots; CPNBs, coordination polymer nanobelts; CTC, chlortetracycline; Cu-TCPP, copper-tetrakis (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin; Cy, cyanine; DSAC2N, 9,10-bis{4-[2-(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-ethoxy]-styrene}anthracene dibromide; FALIA, fluorescence-based aptamer-linked immunosorbent assay; FAM, fluorescein amidite or carboxyfluorescein; Fe3O4, Magnetite; FPIA, fluorescence polarization immunoassay; FRET, fluorescence resonance energy transfer; GO, graphene oxide; l-MoS2 NSs, layered MoS2 nanosheets; MNPs, magnetic nanoparticles; MOFs, metal-organic frameworks; MULTI, multiplex; NMM, N-methylmesoporphyrin IX; OTC, oxytetracycline; PHENI, phenicolated; QUINO, quinolones; RB, rhodamine B; rGO, reduced graphene oxide; ROX, carboxy-X-rhodamine; SDMX, sulfadimethoxine; SSB, single-stranded DNA binding protein; SDMX, sulfadimethoxine; SULFA, sulfonamides; SSB/DIL-Lip, SSB and DIL(1,1′-dioctadecyl-3,3,3′,3′-tetramethyl-indocarbocyanineper-chlorate) coimmobilized liposomes; TETRA, tetracyclines; TO, thiazole orange; TTC: tetracycline; UCNPs, upconversion nanoparticles; ZrP, zirconium-porphyrin.