A key
challenge for achieving high-efficient DNA strand displacement
reaction (SDR) with existing technologies is the inferior kinetic
performance due to the alternately cumbersome conjunction and dissociation
of dsDNA. In this work, a novel multidriven SDR collaborated by toehold
initiator, strand towing, and click chemistry is engineered. The invasion
strand (O) endows the hybridization with a basal strand (M) in dsDNA
for releasing a displacement strand (P), which can be significantly
boosted by the towing of a helper strand and impetus from the click
reaction. Accordingly, the hybridization rate and dissociation extent
of P can be largely improved and showed a desiring displacement rate
close to 6-fold compared with the traditional method, providing a
newly high-efficient SDR strategy for potential application in biosensing,
clinical diagnostics, and DNA nanotechnology. In view of this, a practical
biosensing platform by combining the multidriven SDR (MSDR) with waste-free
DNA multi-cycle amplification is constructed for the rapid and ultrasensitive
electrochemical detection of cancer-related miRNA-21. The substantial
output DNA as an invasion strand (O) from target-triggered waste-free
DNA multicycle can high-efficiently release a signal probe (Fc)-labeled
displacement strand (P) on an electrode by using the proposed MSDR,
obtaining a low detection limit below 106.8 aM.