BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2015
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Pei Zou,Yaling Liu,Hongyong Wang,Jun Wu,Feifan Zhu,Hao Wu
Detection of ultralow concentration of specific protein plays a key role in biotechnological applications and medical diagnostics. In this study, we demonstrate an amplified chemiluminescence biosensing platform for sensitive detection of protein. The biosensing platform ingeniously combines target-catalyzed hairpin assembly and Exo III-assisted signal amplification . A catalytic G-quadruplex-hemin DNAzyme is further employed to stimulate the generation of chemiluminescence in the presence of luminol and H 2 O 2 . These designs together allow a high sensitivity for the biotarget, human α-thrombin, resulting in a detection limit of 0.92 pM, and it is much lower than previous reported studies. In addition, the proposed biosensing platform is versatile. By conjugating with various recognition units, it could be employed to sensitive detect various DNA-binding proteins and might find wide applications in biomedical fields .
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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
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2015
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Junhui Pan,Langhong Wang,Guowen Zhang,Deming Gong
The characteristics of binding of 2-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (TBMP), a synthetic phenolic antioxidant with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (Hp-βCD) and calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) were investigated by multi-spectroscopic techniques and molecular simulation. The results indicated that TBMP preferred to form a 1:1 inclusion complex with Hp-βCD, with an inclusion constant of determined to be 7.15 × 10 3 L mol −1 . The intercalative mode of TBMP to ctDNA was supported by ctDNA melting temperature and relative viscosity studies, salt quenching effect, competitive binding with methylene blue and molecular modeling. The changes in Fourier transformed infrared (FT-IR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectra suggested that TBMP mainly bound to the G–C rich region with inducing a significant perturbation in B-like DNA structure. It was also found that Hp-βCD decreased the binding ability of TBMP with ctDNA, but did not affect the interactive mode between TBMP and ctDNA, and the formed inclusion complex of TBMP–Hp-βCD decomposed in the presence of ctDNA. This study may provide insights into the mechanism of binding of TBMP with ctDNA and the role of Hp-βCD in the TBMP–ctDNA interaction.
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2014
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Dong J. Wang,Hou Chen,Hui Xu,Jin M. Sun,Yuan Y. Xu
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) was grafted onto the surface of a wheat straw matrix (WSM) by single-electron transfer-living radical polymerization (SET-LRP). A novel agricultural residue adsorbent amidoxime WSM-g-PAN (AO WSM-g-PAN) was obtained by modifying WSM-g-PAN with hydroxylamine hydrochloride (NH2OH·HCl). AO WSM-g-PAN was used to remove heavy metal ions. Compared with WSM, the adsorption capacity of AO WSM-g-PAN for Hg(II) increased greatly, and the maximum adsorption capacity was 4.7 mmol g–1. AO WSM-g-PAN could effectively adsorb Hg(II) from binary ion systems in the existence of Ni(II), Pb(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), and Ag(I).
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2017
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IF 3.034
Fujian Xu,Xiaoming Jiang,Jing Hu,Jinyi Zhang,Zhirong Zou,Xiandeng Hou,Hongjian Yan
Nano g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 composite was synthetized and utilized as a novel photocatalyst for enhanced photochemical vapor generation for sample introduction to atomic fluorescence spectrometry . High reduction efficiency for Se (VI) was obtained to facilitate its ultrasensitive determination by atomic fluorescence spectrometry, with a limit of detection of 0.08 ng mL − 1 . The photocatalytic mechanism of this composite was also discussed and demonstrated its highly efficient photocatalytic capacity and promissing applications in trace selenium (VI) determination and extraction.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2017
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Qi Wu,Yiming He,Huili Zhang,Zhiyuan Feng,Ying Wu,Tinghua Wu
Metal-free graphitic carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) catalyst was synthesized by a simple calcination of melamine. The characterization results indicate that the water treatment during preparation process is in favor of the formation of pore structure, enhancing light-harvest ability and suppressing the recombination of the photoexcited electron-hole pair. The as-prepared g-C 3 N 4 catalyst was applied in the photocatalytic selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF). The effects of incident wavelength, solvent, reaction time and scavenger on the photocatalytic performance were investigated. The results indicate that O 2 − plays a key role as dominant active species in photocatalytic oxidation of 5-HMF. Compared with visible light, the UV light illumination is easier to cause the overoxidation of target product and thus leads to a lower DFF selectivity. Under the irradiation of light with wavelength >400 nm, the highest DFF selectivity of 85.6% can be achieved with HMF conversion of 31.2% in the presence of O 2 .
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2017
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Shuai Chen,Pin Liu,Kewen Su,Xuan Li,Zhen Qin,Wei Xu,Jun Chen,Chaorui Li,Jingfu Qiu
In this work, novel octahedral Cu 2 O-Au nanocomposites were synthesized and first applied in an electrochemical aptasensor to detect thrombin (TB) with the aid of a DNAzyme for signal amplification . The octahedral Cu 2 O-Au nanocomposites have not only simultaneously served as signal amplifying molecules but have also been utilized as an ideal loading platform to immobilize a large number of electroactive substances and recognition probes. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were grown directly on the surface of the octahedral Cu 2 O nanocrystals , and the Cu 2 O-Au nanocomposites obtained had the advantages of large surface areas and excellent biocompatibilities. The hemin/G-quadruplex, which was formed by intercalating hemin into the amino terminated thrombin binding aptamer (NH 2 -TBA), and the electroactive toluidine blue (Tb) were immobilized onto the Cu 2 O-Au nanocomposite surfaces through a stable Au-N bond. AuNPs, Cu 2 O and hemin/G-quadruplex co-catalyse the H 2 O 2 in the working buffer to promote the electron transfer of Tb as a multiple signal amplification strategy in order to improve the performance of the electrochemical aptasensor. Under optimal conditions, the designed aptasensor exhibited sensitive detection of TB from 100 fM to 20 nM with a lower detection limit of 23fM. This proposed aptasensor exhibited good sensitivity, high specificity and acceptable reproducibility and could be widely applied in bioassay analysis.
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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2017
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Chen Li,Lei Wang,Xudong Wang,Mengxiao Kong,Quan Zhang,Guangyuan Li
Thermally induced graft copolymerization of sodium styrene sulfonate (SSS) with ozone-preactivated poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) produced a PVDF-g-PSSS copolymer . Sulfonic acid proton exchange membranes (PVDF-g-PSSA) were then prepared using the solvent evaporation method. They were investigated with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and an X-ray diffractometer. The results indicate that the proton conductivity of the prepared membranes reached 0.046 S/cm when the degree of grafting was 50.52%. Results from a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring indicated that the PVDF-g-PSSA membrane showed superior antifouling performance to that of a Nafion membrane. The performance of the prepared membrane in dual-chamber microbial fuel cells was also evaluated and compared with that of Nafion 117. Although the microbial fuel cell with the prepared membrane generated lower maximum power density (106.7 mW/m 2 ) than that with Nafion 117 (132.0 mW/m 2 ), it was more cost-effective because of its lower price and more simplified preparation process. In addition, its chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal (85%) was much higher than that of Nafion 117 (74%).
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2017
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Haiyan Wang,Pei Liu,Wenjing Jiang,Xue Li,Huanshun Yin,Shiyun Ai
DNA methylation is one of the important epigenetics events, and it is responsible for transcription, genomic imprinting and cellular differentiation. Aberrant DNA methylation is always contacted with various diseases. Herein, a simple and low-cost photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensing method is proposed for detection of DNA methylation, assay of DNA methyltransferase (MTase) activity and screening of MTase inhibitor, which is based on M. SssI MTase- HpaII endonuclease system. The graphite-like C 3 N 4 (g-C 3 N 4 ) and CdS quantum dots (CdS QDs) are used as photoactive materials. After the double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) was treated with M. SssI MTase in the presence of S -adenosylmethionine, the methylated dsDNA cannot be digested by HpaII endonuclease and dithiol group at the terminal of dsDNA can be retained. As a result, CdS QDs could be coupled successfully with methylated dsDNA between the reaction of CdS QDs with dithiol of dsDNA, achieving the amplification of PEC response. Thus, the photocurrent of PEC biosensor is consistent with the M. SssI activity. The increased photocurrent was in proportion to M. SssI activity in the linear range from 1 to 80 U/mL with a detection limit of 0.316 U/mL. Furthermore, the effects of atrazine and azamethipos on M. SssI MTase activity were investigated, which might provide useful information on carcinogenic mechanism of pesticide. The PEC biosensor has potential to screen of DNA MTase inhibitor, providing valuable information for anti-cancer drug research and also for cancer therapy.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2016
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Fengmin Qiao,Qingqing Qi,Zhenzhen Wang,Ke Xu,Shiyun Ai
Manganese selenide (MnSe) nanoparticles as nanocatalysts may present enhanced peroxidase-like catalysis if loaded on conductive graphite carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ) supports. In this work, MnSe nanoparticles were successfully loaded on the surface of polymeric g-C 3 N 4 as a cocatalyst through a thermal condensation method by calcinating the mixture of pure MnSe, dicyandiamide and cyanuric acid . The morphology and composition of thus-prepared MnSe loaded doped graphite phase carbon nitride nanosheets (MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 ) were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution TEM , X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Structural analyses revealed that the MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 nanoparticles are composed of ultrathin nanosheets with 20 nm lateral diameter. Compared with original MnSe and g-C 3 N 4 , the prepared MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets could achieve higher aqueous stability and, especially, much stronger peroxidase-like catalysis, presumably resulting from the synergetic effects of conductive carbon nitride and lamellate MnSe nanocatalysts effectively loaded. Significantly, MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets were proved to be novel peroxidase mimetics which could quickly catalyze oxidation of the peroxidase substrate 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) in the presence of H 2 O 2 , producing a blue colored solution. Kinetic analysis indicates that the catalytic behavior satisfy typical Michaelis–Menten kinetics and follows a ping-pong mechanism. Colorimetric detections of H 2 O 2 and glucose using the MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets were conducted with high detection sensitivities, demonstrating the feasibility of practical sensing applications. It is therefore believed that our findings in this study could open up the possibility of utilizing MnSe-g-C 3 N 4 nanosheets as enzymatic mimics in diagnostics and biotechnology fields.
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RSC Advances
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2017
·Vol. 7
·期 40
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IF 3.108
Jiaona Xu,Chunying Wei
A novel, label-free fluorescence detection method was proposed for the formation of the G-quadruplex DNAs based on placing two DNA-Ag NCs together to light-up fluorescence. Herein, we designed two tailored DNA sequences noted as target DNA (abbreviated as T-DNA) and complementary DNA (abbreviated as C-DNA), respectively. T-DNA contains two cytosine-rich sequences at the 3′- and 5′-end responsible for Ag NCs synthesis, together with the guanine-rich (G-rich) DNA sequence in the middle segment. C-DNA was designed completely complementary to the G-rich segment of the T-DNA. Provided that the middle G-rich oligonucleotide of T-DNA folds into G-quadruplex in the presence of monovalent cations, the located at 3′ and 5′ terminuses two darkish DNA-Ag NCs approximate, leading to the enhanced fluorescence signal readout. Upon addition of the C-DNA, the G-quadruplex structure is unfolded and the two DNA-Ag NCs are separated, then the fluorescence signal is quenched. On the contrary, when the G-rich oligonucleotide with mutational bases failed to form the G-quadruplex, the fluorescence signal decreased clearly. This design allowed specific and general detection of the formation of diverse G-quadruplexes with easy operation and low cost. We believed that the proposed approach laid a foundation for the researchers in bioimaging, pharmacology, diagnostics, and other fields.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2016
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Ting Wang,Pan Zhao,Nan Lu,Hongche Chen,Conglu Zhang,Xiaohong Hou
Attractive magnetic metal-organic framework (MOF) material Fe 3 O 4 /MIL-101(Cr) (Matérial Institute Lavoisier, MIL) was synthesized by a simple reduction–precipitation method, and applied as an effective sorbent to the removal of two acid dyes, acid red 1 (AR1) and orange G (OG), in water. The novel synthetic method avoided the oxidation of Fe 2+ and made the Fe 3 O 4 /MIL-101(Cr) composite have the advantages of strong magnetism, large surface areas and excellent dispersion effect. Parameters that influenced the adsorption process, such as solution pH, adsorbent dosage, ionic strength, and so on, were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, adsorption kinetics and isotherms were determined from the obtained experimental data. The adsorption kinetics suggested the adsorption process of Fe 3 O 4 /MIL-101(Cr) toward AR1 and OG met the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The adsorption isotherms were fitted by Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin–Radushkevich (D–R) isotherm models. Compared with the Freundlich and D–R models, the Langmuir isotherm model was found to be suitable to describe the equilibrium data, suggesting that the uptake of AR1 and OG by the Fe 3 O 4 /MIL-101(Cr) would be through monolayer adsorption. The thermodynamic results demonstrated that the adsorption was a spontaneous, exothermic and entropy decreased process. In addition, the Zeta potential data with pH value of AR1 and OG indicated that the electrostatic interactions between the dyes and the adsorbent might be critical to the adsorption mechanism. The used Fe 3 O 4 /MIL-101(Cr) could be regenerated by washing with NaOH solution and reused at least six times. The maximum adsorption capacities of the magnetic composite toward AR1 and OG were up to 142.9 mg g −1 and 200.0 mg g −1 , respectively. These results demonstrated that the novel composite would be an effective and easily re-usable adsorbent for AR1 and OG.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2017
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Fengxia Zhang,Ping Zhang,Qiong Wu,Wenjing Xiong,Qi Kang,Dazhong Shen
Herein, we proposed a simple method to measure the inner resistance of a photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor. Three photoanodes, including TiO 2 nanotubes array (TiO 2 NTs), g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs and Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs (BTC = 1,3,5-benzene- tricarboxylic acid), were chosen as the models. It was shown the change in inner resistance of the photoanode is the main factor for the photocurrent response in a PEC sensor. Under light excitation, the inner resistance of the photoanode is reduced remarkably, resulting in the increment in the photocurrent. The influence of the light intensity on the inner resistance is less than that on the photocurrent, due to the synchronous change in photovoltage . With increasing concentration of hole scavengers (e.g., H 2 O 2 , ascorbic acid), the steady inner resistances of the three photoanodes are decreased. In the PEC sensor with Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs, the Mn 3 (BTC) 2 layer is served as a size-exclusion filter to prevent the diffusion of molecules with size larger than the apertures in crystals, which improves the selectivity of the PEC sensor to smaller molecules (e.g., H 2 O 2 ). The catalytic effect of Mn 3 (BTC) 2 to H 2 O 2 enhances the PEC response sensitivity to H 2 O 2 . Under optimized conditions, the reciprocal of the averaged steady effective inner resistance of Mn 3 (BTC) 2 /g-C 3 N 4 /TiO 2 NTs is in a linear correlation with the logarithmic concentration of H 2 O 2 in the range of 0.003 to 10 μM with a limit of detection of 1 nM. This PEC sensor was applied for H 2 O 2 determination in exhaled breath condensate samples.
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