Ribonuclease H Enzyme Activity Detection Based on Hybridization Chain Reaction Amplification and Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Fluorescence Quenching.

Ribonuclease H (RNase H) plays key roles in HIV virus replication process and can be used as an important target for anti-AIDS drugs screening. Therefore, we constructed a fluorescent nanosensor based on signal amplification of hybridization chain reaction (HCR) and fluorescence quenching of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets. The nanosensor provided highly sensitive and selective platform for RNase H activity detection. This method also exhibited a good linear relationship in the range of 0.001-5 U/mL, and the detection limit was 0.0007 U/mL. Our results suggested that the developed system is a promising platform for monitoring the RNase H activity, showing great potential in the biomedical studies and drugs screening.