SECM for Studying the Immobilization and Repartition of a Redox Anti-tetracycline Aptamer on Screen-printed Carbon Electrodes

Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is discussed as a versatile tool to provide a unique approach of localized electrochemical information in the context of biosensing research. The step-by-step immobilization of DNA aptamer with intrinsic redox activity on screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) was successfully monitored using SECM imaging tool. Control experiments were performed with a non-electroactive aptamer. After immobilization of these aptamers, SECM images showed the repartition of the electroactive anti-tetracycline aptamer when comparing with images produced for control and for all modification steps of SPCE. The possibility of tetracycline detection was also proved by causing a decrease in recorded current.     

荧光光谱法研究四环素和牛血清蛋白的荧光猝灭和增敏作用

利用荧光光谱法研究了四环素和牛血清白蛋白(BSA)分子间的相互作用,在BSA荧光最强的pH=6.5的醋酸缓冲溶液中测定了结合常数(在19℃,7.61 ×103L·mol-1)和结合点数(n=0.88).研究表明:四环素可猝灭BSA的荧光,是静态猝灭过程.同时四环素的荧光也被BSA增敏并随着BSA的浓度的增加而增加.用同步扫描法讨论了四环素对BSA构象的影响和作用点位.     

十六烷基三甲基溴化铵对脱水四环素和异四环素荧光增强作用研究

在不同pH值的标准缓冲溶液及不同表面活性剂十六烷基三甲基溴化铵（CTMAB）浓度的胶束溶液环境中，研究了CTMAB对盐酸四环素的降解产物脱水四环素和异四环素的荧光强度的影响。结果表明，CTMAB对脱水四环素和异四环素具有荧光增强作用，荧光增强幅度与介质的pH值和CTMAB浓度有关，在中性和碱性条件下对脱水四环素荧光增强作用较大，在pH=9.2的条件下可使异四环素的荧光强度达到最大值，CTMAB对脱水四环素和异四环素的这种荧光增强作用，为建立较灵敏的盐酸四环素及其降解产物的荧光定量方法提供了依据。     

Fabrication of macroporous polystyrene/graphene oxide composite monolith and its adsorption property for tetracycline

Macroporous polystyrene microsphere/graphene oxide(PS/GO) composite monolith was first prepared using Pickering emulsion droplets as the soft template. The Pickering emulsion was stabilized by PS/GO composite particles in-situ formed in an acidic water phase. With the evaporation of water and the oil phase(octane), the Pickering emulsion droplets agglomerated and combined with each other, forming a three-dimensional macroporous PS/GO composite matrix with excellent mechanical strength. The size of the macrospores ranged from 4 mm to 20 mm. The macroporous PS/GO composite monolith exhibited high adsorption capacity for tetracycline(TC) in an aqueous solution at p H 4–6. The maximum adsorption capacity reached 197.9 mg g 1at p H 6. The adsorption behaviour of TC fitted well with the Langmuir model and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. This work offers a simple and efficient approach to fabricate macroporous GO-based monolith with high strength and adsorption ability for organic pollutants.     

线性扫描极谱法检测环境水样中四环素

基于四环素在pH=5.5的柠檬酸-柠檬酸钠缓冲溶液中可产生一灵敏的还原峰,建立了一种测定四环素的极谱新方法。在优化条件下,于起始电位-0.9 V(vs.SCE),峰电位-1.4V(vs.SCE),四环素浓度分别在0.1~30、30~90μg/mL范围内与峰电流呈现良好的线性关系,检出限为0.0024μg/mL。该方法直接用于环境水样中四环素的检测,回收率为97.8%~102.9%。用线性扫描极谱法研究了检测体系的电化学行为,证明了极谱波为不可逆还原吸附波,并讨论了电极反应机理。     

Glass substrates crosslinked with tetracycline-imprinted polymeric silicate and CdTe quantum dots as fluorescent sensors

A fluorescence-based sensor that combines the merits of quantum dots (QDs) and molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) was first fabricated on a glass substrate via a sol–gel route. Some of the key performance factors, including silane selection, substrate etching, the reaction times of glass silanization and sol–gel polymerization, and the times and methods used for template stripping and loading, were discussed and determined. After fabricating the sensor on either a 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS) or a 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (MPS) modified glass substrate, APS showed a much better performance than MPS as both the capping reagent of QDs and the functional monomer of tetracycline-templated MIPs. The APS-QDs on APS-modified glass had a higher imprinted factor (IF = 5.6), a lower LOD (2.1 μM, 3σ), and a more stable signal (2.8%, n = 10 at 70 μM) than those on the MPS-modified glass (IF = 5.2, LOD = 6.5 μM, stability = 6.2%). Furthermore, the recoveries of tetracycline (70 μM) from BSA (133 μg/mL) and FBS (0.66 ppt) by the APS-modified glass were 98% (RSD = 3.5%, n = 5) and 97% (RSD = 5.7%), respectively. For the MPS-modified glass, recoveries of 95% (RSD = 7.2%) and 89% (RSD = 8.7%) were observed at 67 μg/mL of BSA and 0.33 ppt of FBS, respectively.     

Determination of tetracycline antibiotics in fatty food samples by selective pressurized liquid extraction coupled with high‐performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry

For the determination of trace residues of tetracycline antibiotics in fatty food samples, selective pressurized liquid extraction coupled with high‐performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry was applied in this study. Copper(II) isonicotinate was first used as online cleanup adsorbent in the selective pressurized liquid extraction process. The adsorbent to sample ratio, extraction temperature, extraction time, and recycle times, etc. were optimized. The tetracyclines in food samples of pork, chicken meat, and clam meat were detected by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. Tetracycline was found at levels of 0.32 and 0.53 μg/g and oxytetracycline was found at 0.14 and 0.21 μg/g in chicken meat and clam meat, respectively, while chlorotetracycline and deoxytetracycline were below the detection limit. The detection limit (S/N = 3) for these four tetracyclines were from 0.2 to 3.3 ng/g, the recoveries were from 75.8 to 110.5%, and relative standard deviations were from 5.5 to 13.6%. Copper(II) isonicotinate showed a higher purification capacity than other cleanup adsorbents for extraction of antibiotics in fatty food and the recovery showed predominance compared with a pressurized liquid extraction method without adsorbent. The study demonstrated that copper(II) isonicotinate would be a promising cleanup adsorbent in pressurized liquid extraction for the analysis of trace organic pollutants in complicated samples.     

A novel flow-through fluorescence optosensor for the sensitive determination of tetracycline

A flow-through fluorescence optosensor with Sephadex G-50 microbeads as solid support is developed for the sensitive determination of tetracycline (TC). The fluorescent TC derivative encapsulated in CTAB micelle structures is retained onto the surface of the microbeads packed into a fluorescent flow cell in a flow system, followed by measurement of the native fluorescence of the TC derivative on the bead surface. The retained TC derivative is easily stripped off with DI water from the bead surface by breaking-down the micelle structure. This offers a convenient and effective way for the regeneration of the used solid support with DI water as a carrier. Under the optimal conditions, a linear calibration graph is obtained within a range of 3-500 μg L⁻¹, along with a detection limit of 1.0 μg L⁻¹. The present solid surface fluorescence optosensor provides a 22-fold improvement on the detection sensitivity for TC in comparison with that derived by fluorescence detection in aqueous medium. The feasibility of this flow-through fluorescence optosensor is evaluated by analyzing TC in a commercial drug tablet and surface water samples.     

Methodological Advances Permit the Stereocontrolled Construction of Diverse Fully Synthetic Tetracyclines Containing an All-Carbon Quaternary Center at Position C5a

Here we describe chemical innovations that enable the preparation of fully synthetic tetracyclines containing an all-carbon quaternary, stereogenic center at position C5a, a structurally novel class of compounds in this important family of therapeutic agents. In the key transformation and an important extension of the powerful Michael-Claisen cyclization (AB plus D) approach to the construction of fully synthetic tetracyclines, we show that the six-membered C ring comprising a C5a quaternary carbon center can be assembled by highly stereocontrolled coupling reactions of β-substituted AB enones and o-toluate ester anion D-ring precursors. Novel and versatile β-functionalization reaction sequences employing tris(methylthio)methyllithium and 2-lithio-1,3-dithiane have been developed to transform the AB enone 1 (the key precursor to fully synthetic tetracyclines) into a diverse range of β-substituted AB enone products, including a highly efficient, single-operation method for the synthesis of a β-methyl ester-substituted AB enone. A C5a-C11a-bridged cyclopropane tetracycline precursor was found to undergo efficient and regioselective ring-opening reactions with a range of nucleophiles in the presence of magnesium bromide, thus providing another avenue for the preparation of fully synthetic tetracyclines containing an all-carbon quaternary center at position C5a. Two compounds prepared from the bridged cyclopropane intermediate served as (further) diversifiable branch-points, allowing maximally expedient synthesis of C5a-substituted tetracyclines by final-step diversification.     

The kinetics of adsorption of tetracycline on chitosan particles

Experiments to monitor and characterize the kinetics of adsorption of tetracycline on chitosan particles are reported in this work. The same pseudo-order kinetics that has been widely used for describing the adsorption in systems related to wastewater purification and drug loading was used to treat the present data. As some unexpected results came out from the experiments, it was necessary a detailed deduction for this sort of kinetics to be carried out, so that approximations related to short and long times were obtained. Firstly it was shown that an apparently linear t/q(t) versus t relationship did not imply a pseudo-second-order sorption kinetics, differently of what has been repeatedly reported in the literature. It was found that this misinterpretation could be avoided by using non-linear regression. Finally, the adsorption of tetracycline on chitosan particles was analyzed, using the insights obtained from theoretical analysis, and the parameters generated were used to analyze to adsorption kinetics and to propose an adsorption mechanism.