The invention relates to a method for electrochemically detecting concentration of specific single-stranded
DNA based on
exonuclease and a
nucleic acid probe and belongs to the technical field of
analytical chemistry. The invention designs and synthesizes two types of hairpin-type probes P1 and P2. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly modifying a gold
electrode with gold nanoparticles by adopting 1,6-hexanedithiol (HDT), preparing an AuNPs-HDT-Au
electrode, and then modifying the probe P1 onto the
electrode; taking a specific single stranded target
DNA as a to-be-detected object, so that the probes P1 and P2 can coexist when no target
DNA exists, and the target DNA can trigger two independent reaction cycles when the target DNA, the probe P2 and the
exonuclease ExoIII exist; and finally when
heme exists, generating a strong
signal under the interaction of a G-tetraplex sequence of the probe P1 on the surface of the electrode and
heme, and detecting the target DNA by adopting a
differential pulse voltammetry, wherein a
peak current signal and the target
DNA concentration are correlated in a certain concentration range, so that detection on the target
DNA concentration is realized. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of high sensitivity and strong specificity.