This invention discloses an
intracellular imaging
system for simultaneously detecting UDG and miR-375 expression levels and its applications. The
intracellular imaging
system uses a tetrahedral
DNA nanostructure as a carrier, loading a HAT-UDG probe with an on / off conformation, and
coupling it with a split
CRISPR / Cas12a detection component for recognizing miR-375. The split
CRISPR / Cas12a detection component includes at least Cas12a
protein,
scaffold RNA, spacer
RNA / equivalent split crRNA components, and a
fluorescent reporter substrate. This invention is the first to perform a logical AND operation between two key indicators: UDG
enzyme activity and miR-375 expression level. The
system can only ultimately trigger a complete
fluorescence signal when both are simultaneously highly expressed. This multi-target synergistic activation design constructs a precise
molecular recognition logic gate, enabling extremely accurate differentiation between
prostate cancer cells (RV-1) and normal cells (293T), as well as other
cancer cells (5637) that highly express UDG, fundamentally avoiding misjudgments caused by fluctuations in a
single indicator or non-specific expression, resulting in extremely high imaging specificity.