کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10429462 909794 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Electrochemical endotoxin sensors based on TLR4/MD-2 complexes immobilized on gold electrodes
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی شیمی آنالیزی یا شیمی تجزیه
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Electrochemical endotoxin sensors based on TLR4/MD-2 complexes immobilized on gold electrodes
چکیده انگلیسی
Even low concentrations of endotoxins can be life-threatening. As such, continuous effort has been directed toward the development of sensitive and specific endotoxin detection systems. In this paper, we report the design and fabrication of a new electrochemical endotoxin sensor based on a human recombinant toll-like receptor 4 (rhTLR4) and myeloid differentiation-2 (MD-2) complex. The rhTLR4/MD-2 complex, which specifically binds to endotoxin, was immobilized on gold electrodes through a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) technique involving the use of dithiobis(succinimidyl undecanoate) (DSU). The surface topography of the electrodes at each fabrication stage was characterized with a nanosurface profiler and atomic force microscope (AFM). The electrochemical signals generated from interactions between the rhTLR4/MD-2 complex and the endotoxin were characterized by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). A linear relationship between the peak current and endotoxin concentration was obtained in the range of 0.0005 to 5 EU/mL with a correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.978. The estimated limit of detection (LOD) was fairly low, 0.0002 EU/mL. The rhTLR4/MD-2 based sensors exhibited no current responses to dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bearing two lipid chains, which is structurally similar to endotoxin, indicating the high specificity of the sensors to endotoxin.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biosensors and Bioelectronics - Volume 28, Issue 1, 15 October 2011, Pages 139-145
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