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- Title
A Fluidics-Based Biosensor to Detect and Characterize Inhibition Patterns of Organophosphate to Acetylcholinesterase in Food Materials.
- Authors
Pham, Dang Song; Nguyen, Xuan Anh; Marsh, Paul; Chu, Sung Sik; Lau, Michael P. H.; Nguyen, Anh H.; Cao, Hung
- Abstract
A chip-based electrochemical biosensor is developed herein for the detection of organophosphate (OP) in food materials. The principle of the sensing platform is based on the inhibition of dimethoate (DMT), a typical OP that specifically inhibits acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity. Carbon nanotube-modified gold electrodes functionalized with polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride (PDDA) and oxidized nanocellulose (NC) were investigated for the sensing of OP, yielding high sensitivity. Compared with noncovalent adsorption and deposition in bovine serum albumin, bioconjugation with lysine side chain activation allowed the enzyme to be stable over three weeks at room temperature. The total amount of AChE was quantified, whose activity inhibition was highly linear with respect to DMT concentration. Increased incubation times and/or DMT concentration decreased current flow. The composite electrode showed a sensitivity 4.8-times higher than that of the bare gold electrode. The biosensor was challenged with organophosphate-spiked food samples and showed a limit of detection (LOD) of DMT at 4.1 nM, with a limit of quantification (LOQ) at 12.6 nM, in the linear range of 10 nM to 1000 nM. Such performance infers significant potential for the use of this system in the detection of organophosphates in real samples.
- Subjects
ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GOLD electrodes; BIOSENSORS; ENZYME activation; TELEVISION cooking programs; SERUM albumin
- Publication
Micromachines, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 4, p397
- ISSN
2072-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/mi12040397