Indium tin oxide (ITO) is a highly important material since it is both conductive and transparent. As a result, ITO is widely used in the electronic industry and recently its application in biosensor development is also explored. We herein investigate its interaction with DNA by studying the adsorption of fluorescently labeled and single-stranded oligonucleotides onto ITO nanoparticles. The fluorescence of DNA is efficiently quenched after adsorption and the interaction between DNA and ITO NPs is dependent on the surface charge of ITO, which is controlled by pH. Adsorption is greatly enhanced at low pH.Adsorption is also influenced by the sequence and length of DNA. For its components, In2O3 adsorbs DNA more strongly while SnO2 repels DNA at neutral pH. The DNA adsorption property is an averaging result from both components. DNA adsorption is confirmed to be mainly by the phosphate backbone via displacement experiments using free phosphate or DNA bases. Lastly, DNA induced DNA desorption by forming duplex DNA is demonstrated on ITO, while the same reaction is more difficult to achieve on other metal oxides including CeO2, TiO2 and Fe3O4.3