Bacillus anthracis, an extremely dangerous bacterium which can cause pulmonary anthrax and be used as biochemical weapon agent, can be detected by the detection of its major biomarker 2, 6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid (DPA). Herein, we reported the solvothermal synthesis of a non-luminescent NH₂-BDC-Eu-MOF using Eu³⁺ and 2-aminoterephthalic acid (NH₂-BDC). The emission of amino ligand and Eu³⁺ ions are absent in ethanol while the addition of DPA could recover both emission at 460 and 624 nm respectively. Thus this MOF can act as a dual emission ‘‘turn-on’’ probe for DPA detection. The detection limits (LOD) of this DPA probe are about 0.8 μM in ethanol and 0.36 μM in water, which are much lower than an infectious dosage of bacillus anthracis spores (60 μM) for human being. In order to monitor DPA levels more conveniently, we developed a one-to-two decoder logic gate operation, which can determinate DPA via color discrimination.