Zixian He,Zhiwei Liu,Haihuan Xie,Pengjie Luo,Xiangmei Li
Herein, an ultrasensitive lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA), based on metal-organic framework-decorated polydopamine (PCN-224@PDA) was first established to detect multiple sulfonylureas (SUs) in functional foods. The PCN-224@PDA was synthesized using the one-pot hydrothermal method and covalently coupled with SUs antibodies, and the coupling rate was up to 91.8%. The detection limits of the developed PCN-224@PDA-LFIA for multiple SUs in functional teas and capsules were 0.22–3.72 μg/kg and 0.40–3.71 μg/kg, and quantification limits were 0.75–8.19 μg/kg and 1.03–9.08 μg/kg, respectively. The analytical sensitivity was 128-fold higher than that of similar methods reported so far. The recovery rates ranged from 83.8 to 119.0%, with coefficients of variation of 7.6–14.4%. The parallel analysis of 20 real samples by LC-MS/MS confirmed the reliability of the proposed method. Therefore, our work offers novel, ultrasensitive, and rapid technical support for on-site monitoring of SUs in functional foods.Keywords:sulfonylureas;metal-organic frameworks;polydopamine;lateral flow immunoassay;functional foods
Haihuan Xie,Yingying Li,Jin Wang,Yi Lei,Anastasios Koidis,Xiangmei Li,Xing Shen,Zhenlin Xu,Hongtao Lei
Sulfonylureas (SUs) are a series of anti-diabetic drugs widely used for type 2 diabetes mellitus for clinic treat. However, it is often illegally adulterated in multi-herbal tea to improve the claimed anti-diabetic activity in recent years. In this study, a novel hapten was rationally designed, and a broad-specific monoclonal antibody (anti-SUs mAb) recognizing nine SUs was developed. This mAb was used to develop a colloidal gold lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (CG-LFIA). The anti-SUs mAb demonstrated half inhibitory concentration (IC 50 ) ranged from 0.15 ng/mL to 3.25 ng/ mL for nine SUs by ELISA. The cut-off value of developed CG-LFIA for nine SUs was from 3 to 100 ng/ mL for the spiked samples. LC-MS/MS confirmed the reliability of the new CG-LFIA. The results indicated that the proposed CG-LFIA could be an ideal method in on-site screening surveillance assay for SUs illegally adulterated in multi-herbal tea products.
Jiankun Cao,Qing Jiang,Ruixian Li,Qian Xu,Hongli Li
In this work, novel ionic liquid (IL) functionalized polyacrylonitrile nanofibers mat (IL/PAN–NFsM) was firstly prepared through thiol–ene “click” reaction and evaluated for the establishment of a sensitive and high-throughput screening method. Because of its excellent pre-separation efficiency, IL/PAN–NFsM can adsorb trace-level targets from complex sample matrix within tens of seconds by performing a solid-phase extraction (SPE) process, and then served as sampling modules of direct analysis real time mass spectrometry (DART–MS) without any additional processing. This means the target analytes concentrated on IL/PAN–NFsM were directly desorbed, ionized, and detected by DART–MS. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, three illegal added synthetic drugs (gliclazide, glimepiride , and gliquidone) were screened in six types of antidiabetic health-care tea samples. The results indicated that the sensitivity is in the level of ng g −1 , while total analysis time does not exceed 1.0 min per sample. Moreover, the stability expressed as relative standard deviation (RSD) varies from 1.7% to 17.3%. We proposed a new screening mode based on the direct combination of functionalized NFsM and DART–MS, which is expected to become a universal method in food safety analysis.