For monitoring the CD105 enrichment, 3 × 105 mEND-HEK293 or HEK293 cells were incubated with selected library pools (250 nM) or aptamer candidates (250 nM) in binding buffer for 30 min at 4℃. To investigate the specificity of the aptamer, 3 × 105 cells of each cell line were incubated with aptamer (250 nM) in binding buffer for 30 min at 4℃. The initial library sequences were used as the negative control. To determine the dissociation constant (Kd) of aptamers, mEND-HEK293 cells (3 × 105) were incubated with aptamer of various concentrations in binding buffer for 30 min at 4℃.
After incubation, each cell sample was resuspended in washing buffer for flow cytometry. The Kd was determined by fluorescence intensity of binding vs the aptamer concentration using the saturation equation Y = B max X / (Kd + X) by SigmaPlot software. The binding assay for each cell sample was repeated three times.