A Smart Dental Floss for Biosensing of Glucose

The development of a simple directly wearable approach for the rapid, specific and sensitive determination of biomarkers is of great importance to a variety of biomedical applications. Dental floss can provide a unique device platform for sensing of oral biomarkers. We show here for the first time the development of a smart dental floss for biosensing of glucose. The sensor was made by painting carbon graphite ink and Ag/AgCl ink on dental floss. Via the immobilization of glucose oxidase, we show the detection of glucose with a detection range of 0.048 mM to 19.5 mM and a response time of about 2 min. It is expected that our results could provide new exciting opportunities for the development of various flexible smart sensing devices in oral health applications.     

Intracellular Delivery of Glucose Oxidase for Enhanced Cytotoxicity toward PSMA‐Expressing Prostate Cancer Cells

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) forming enzymes are of significant interest as anticancer agents due to their potent cytotoxicity. A key challenge in their clinical translation is attaining site‐specific delivery and minimizing biodistribution to healthy tissues. Here, complexes composed of the ROS enzyme glucose oxidase (GOX), poly‐l ‐lysine‐grafted‐polyethylene glycol (PLL‐g‐PEG), and anti‐prostate specific membrane antigen (anti‐PSMA) monoclonal antibody are synthesized for localized delivery and uptake in prostate cancer cells. Formation of anti‐PSMA‐PLL‐g‐PEG/GOX results in nanoscale complexes ≈30 nm in diameter with a ζ‐potential of 6 mV. The anti‐PSMA‐PLL‐g‐PEG/GOX complexes show significant cytotoxicity (≈60% reduction in cell viability) against PSMA‐expressing LNCaP cells compared to unmodified GOX. Importantly, cytotoxicity in LNCaP cells occurrs concurrently with anti‐PSMA‐PLL‐g‐PEG/GOX uptake and increases in intracellular generation of ROS. These results demonstrate that cytotoxicity of ROS inducing enzymes can be enhanced by intracellular delivery compared to equivalent concentrations of free enzyme, providing a novel means for cancer therapy.     

Engineering of Yeast Old Yellow Enzyme OYE3 Enables Its Capability Discriminating of (E)-Citral and (Z)-Citral

The importance of yeast old yellow enzymes is increasingly recognized for direct asymmetric reduction of (E/Z)-citral to (R)-citronellal. As one of the most performing old yellow enzymes, the enzyme OYE3 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C exhibited complementary enantioselectivity for the reduction of (E)-citral and (Z)-citral, resulting in lower e.e. value of (R)-citronellal in the reduction of (E/Z)-citral. To develop a novel approach for the direct synthesis of enantio-pure (R)-citronellal from the reduction of (E/Z)-citral, the enzyme OYE3 was firstly modified by semi-rational design to improve its (R)-enantioselectivity. The OYE3 variants W116A and S296F showed strict (R)-enantioselectivity in the reduction of (E)-citral, and significantly reversed the (S)-enantioselectivity in the reduction of (Z)-citral. Next, the double substitution of OYE3 led to the unique variant S296F/W116G, which exhibited strict (R)-enantioselectivity in the reduction of (E)-citral and (E/Z)-citral, but was not active on (Z)-citral. Relying on its capability discriminating (E)-citral and (Z)-citral, a new cascade reaction catalyzed by the OYE3 variant S296F/W116G and glucose dehydrogenase was developed, providing the enantio-pure (R)-citronellal and the retained (Z)-citral after complete reduction of (E)-citral.     

Quantitative Determination of Urine Glucose: Combination of Laminar Flow in Microfluidic Chip with SERS Probe Technique

A surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS) sensing approach for urine glucose was developed based on the laminar flow technology in a cross-type microfluidic chip with SERS probes, 4-mercaptophenylboronic acid (MPBA) functionalized Ag nanoparticles. MPBA as the glucose receptor can identify and bind up with glucose at a molar ratio of 2:1, which can cause the aggregation of SERS probes at a certain position of the chip channel and further enhance the SERS signal of MPBA significantly. Thus, the quantitative SERS detection of glucose was achieved indirectly. No sample pretreatment and separation were needed in this method since the SERS detection was achieved in the gradient diffusion and molecular recognition processes between urine glucose and SERS probe in the laminar flow, which simplified the sample treatment procedures, saved detection time and made it feasible for clinic applications. This method shows a good linear relationship within human body's normal physiological range and has high sensitivity and selectivity. The lowest detection concentration can reach 1.0 mg/dL.     

葡萄糖浓度对THz频段血液光学特性的影响

无创性血糖检测仍是糖尿病患者护理安全舒适的现实科学任务。本文研究了血糖光学特性与血糖浓度之间的相关性。用时域THz光谱研究了全血在0.3~0.5 THz频率范围内的透射谱。在注射胰岛素后的短时间内,由同一糖尿病患者产生了生物样品。得到了血液光学特性的频散特性。基于频散,给出了血糖浓度与折射率和介电常数的关系式。这项工作是复杂研究的一部分,重点是无创葡萄糖测量技术的发展。记录血糖水平与血液光学参数之间的依赖关系,使得将来可以使用反射光谱技术进行无创血糖水平检测。     

一种新型酶生物燃料电池阳极构建及性能研究

通过酸化碳纳米管(CNTs)和β-环糊精(β-CD)之间的范德华力作用, 实现CNTs的β-CD功能化. β-CD具有内腔疏水、外壁亲水的环状结构, 其内腔容易与二茂铁(Fc)形成稳定的主客体包合结构, 实现Fc在碳纳米管上的高效固载; 再将CNTs-β-CD-Fc复合物与葡萄糖氧化酶(GOD)混合, 采用戊二醛实现酶分子间的交联, 形成GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc复合物, 然后将其涂覆到玻碳电极(GC)上, 得到一种新型的酶生物燃料电池阳极(GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc/GC). 采用同步热分析法、傅里叶变换红外光谱和透射电子显微镜对所制备的CNTs-β-CD-Fc复合物进行了表征, 采用循环伏安法研究了GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc/GC电极对葡萄糖氧化的催化性能. 结果表明: 在同等实验条件下, 没有固载Fc的GOD/CNTs- β-CD/GC电极基本无催化电流, 而GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc/GC电极表现出比GOD/CNTs-Fc/GC电极更为优越的电催化性能. 进一步以GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc/GC电极或GOD/CNTs-Fc/GC电极为酶阳极, 商用催化剂E-TEK Pt/C电极(E-TEK Pt/C/GC)为阴极, 构建葡萄糖/氧气生物燃料电池(EBFC), 结果表明前者的最大功率密度(33 μW·cm^-2, 0.18 V)几乎是后者的三倍(11.7 μW·cm^-2, 0.16 V). 通过记录开路电位随时间的变化研究了EBFC的稳定性, 以GOD/CNTs-β-CD-Fc/GC电极为阳极的EBFC在连续工作9 h后仍保留了92%的开路电位, 表明该电池具有良好的连续工作稳定性. 我们提出的这种新型生物燃料电池阳极的构造方法, 为构建高性能、高稳定性的葡萄糖/氧气EBFC提供了新的思路.     

二茂铁功能化Fe3O4/碳纳米管/壳聚糖复合膜葡萄糖生物传感电极的研究

采用交联法制备了羧基二茂铁功能化Fe₃O₄纳米粒子（FMC-AFNPs）复合材料,并将该复合纳米材料与多壁碳纳米管（MWNTs）、壳聚糖（CS）及葡萄糖氧化酶（GOD）混合修饰于自制的磁性玻碳基底(MGC)表面,制备了GOD/FMC-AFNPs/MWNTs/CS复合膜生物传感器电极. 实验结果表明,FMC-AFNPs复合材料有效地克服了二茂铁在电极表面的泄漏,且FMC-AFNPs/MWNTs/CS复合膜良好的生物兼容性较大地改善了固定化GOD的生物活性. MWNTs具有良好的导电性和大比表面积,在修饰膜内可作为电子传递“导线”,极大地促进电极的电子传递速率,提高电极的电催化活性和灵敏度. 该电极的葡萄糖检测的线性范围为1.0×10^-5 ~ 6.0×10^-3 molL^-1,检测限为3.2×10^-6 mmolL^-1（S/N=3）,表观米氏常数为5.03×10^-3 mmolL^-1,且有较好的稳定性和重现性.     

双重信号放大的竞争型免疫传感器的制备及其应用于瘦肉精检测的研究

制备了葡萄糖氧化酶(GOD)-克伦特罗(Clenbuterol, CB)功能纳米复合物, 并采用共价键合和温育组装等方法构建了双重信号放大的竞争型免疫传感器. 研究了GOD 催化氧化葡萄糖和普鲁士蓝(PB)催化还原H2O2 双重信号放大的反应机理和传感器检测CB 的作用机制. 用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)等方法表征了纳米复合材料的形貌和复合物中GOD的活性, 复合物中的GOD 保持了良好的电催化性能和酶动力学响应, 并且符合米氏动力学方程. 最佳实验条件下, 该免疫传感器对盐酸克伦特罗的检测线性范围为0.01～100 ng/mL, 检测限达4.50 pg/mL. 实验结果表明, 该传感器对瘦肉精克伦特罗的检测具有灵敏度高, 特异性强, 重现性好, 线性范围宽和检测限低等优点. 将该方法用于猪肝样品的分析, 加标样品回收率在97.5%～102%之间. 该研究为瘦肉精及β-受体兴奋剂的分析提供了一种新方法.     

1-芘丁酸/石墨烯复合物的电化学性质及其在葡萄糖传感器上的应用

本文采用一步法制备了1-芘丁酸/石墨烯复合物(PBA/G),研究了其电化学性质. 采用铁氰化钾和亚铁氰化钾电化学探针测定了电化学阻抗滴定曲线,确定了PBA/G的表观pK_a为6.2. 此外,将葡萄糖氧化酶(GOD)共价键合在PBA/G表面构建了葡萄糖电化学传感器,其电化学响应与葡萄糖浓度（5 mmol L^-1浓度范围内）呈线性,检测限为0.085 mmol L^-1. 实验还测定了固定在PBA/G表面的GOD的表观米氏常数为5.40 mmol L^-1,表明固定化的GOD对葡萄糖有较高的催化活性。     

278.15～318.15 K下葡萄糖在盐酸中的体积性质

测定了278.15～318.15 K(间隔10 K)下葡萄糖＋HCl＋水三元体系的密度, 计算了葡萄糖在盐酸(浓度0.2～2.1 mol•kg^–1)中的表观摩尔体积V_Φ,G、标准偏摩尔体积V⁰_Φ,G、葡萄糖-HCl在水中的体积对相互作用参数V_EG和标准偏摩尔膨胀系数(∂V⁰_Φ,G/∂T)_p. 结果表明: (1)葡萄糖在盐酸中的表观摩尔体积随葡萄糖和HCl的浓度的增加而线性增大; (2) V⁰_Φ,G随HCl的质量摩尔浓度的增加而线性增大; (3)葡萄糖与HCl在水溶液中的体积相互作用参数V_EG＞0, 但数值对温度变化不甚敏感; (4)葡萄糖在水和盐酸中的V⁰_Φ,G值随实验温度的变化关系均可表示为: V⁰_Φ,G＝a₀＋a₁(T－273.15 K) ^2/3; (5) (∂V⁰_Φ,G/∂T)_p为正值且随温度的升高而减小; 在一定温度下, 其值随HCl浓度的增加而稍稍减小. 糖的水化程度随温度的升高和HCl的浓度的增加而减小. 用结构相互作用模型对葡萄糖与HCl之间的体积相互作用进行了解释.