纳米金-多壁碳纳米管复合物修饰电极对柔红霉素作用癌细胞的实时检测

本文通过制备纳米金-多壁碳纳米管复合物(Au-MCNT)修饰玻碳电极,建立了抗癌药物柔红霉素(DNR)作用癌细胞的高灵敏检测方法,研究并追踪了DNR与癌细胞相互作用过程中细胞对DNR的电化学实时响应.结果表明,Au-MCNT修饰电极能实现抗癌药物DNR作用癌细胞的高灵敏实时检测.基于该纳米复合材料的电化学药物传感分析方法可作为抗癌研究中一种方便、快捷、灵敏的实时检测手段,在生物医学等领域具有良好的应用前景.     

A novel aptamer functionalized CuInS2 quantum dots probe for daunorubicin sensing and near infrared imaging of prostate cancer cells

In this paper, a novel daunorubicin (DNR)-loaded MUC1 aptamer-near infrared (NIR) CuInS₂ quantum dot (DNR–MUC1–QDs) conjugates were developed, which can be used as a targeted cancer imaging and sensing system. After the NIR CuInS₂ QDs conjugated with the MUC1 aptamer–(CGA)₇, DNR can intercalate into the double-stranded CG sequence of the MUC1–QDs. The incorporation of multiple CG sequences within the stem of the aptamers may further increase the loading efficiency of DNR on these conjugates. DNR–MUC1–QDs can be used to target prostate cancer cells. We evaluated the capacity of MUC1–CuInS₂ QDs for delivering DNR to cancer cells in vitro, and its binding affinity to MUC1-positive and MUC1-negative cells. This novel aptamer functionalized QDs bio-nano-system can not only deliver DNR to the targeted prostate cancer cells, but also can sense DNR by the change of photoluminescence intensity of CuInS₂ QDs, which concurrently images the cancer cells. The quenched fluorescence intensity of MUC1–QDs was proportional to the concentration of DNR in the concentration ranges of 33–88 nmol L⁻¹. The detection limit (LOD) for DNR was 19 nmol L⁻¹. We demonstrate the specificity and sensitivity of this DNR–MUC1–QDs probe as a cancer cell imaging, therapy and sensing system in vitro.     

柔红霉素在钴离子注入修饰玻碳电极上与DNA相互作用

用钴离子注入修饰电极研究了柔红霉素与DNA的相互作用.柔红霉素以嵌入方式与DNA发生作用,形成非电活性的结合物.加入DNA后,柔红霉素的电化学行为没有改变,仍为扩散控制.用非线性拟合得到柔红霉素与DNA的结合常数K=1.09×10⁸cm³/mol,结合数s≈4.DNA分子结构中的1个螺旋结合2个柔红霉素.     

Development of a polymer system for the delivery of daunorubicin to tumor cells to overcome drug resistance

Method for the synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles (NP) with encapsulated daunorubicin (DNR) was developed on the basis of double emulsion solvent evaporation technique using biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA), which is aimed at customization of pharmacokinetic properties of the preparation, enhanced accumulation of DNR in tumor cells and prolongation of its action. The obtained polymer nanoparticles (DNR-PLGA) had average size ranging around 138±36 nm, with zeta-potential of –25.3 mV and the polydispersity index (PDI) of 0.072. The release kinetics of DNR from polymer nanoparticles at pH 7.4 and 5.0 has been studied. In vitro studies showed similar specific activity of DNR- PLGA in K562 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines together with an increase in activity in K562 Adr and MCF-7 Adr cell lines, which are anthracycline resistant, by 1.6 and 3.4 times. The study demonstrated the efficacy of the developed PLGA-based DNR delivery system in the improvement of antitumor effect of DNR, overcoming multidrug resistance in cancer cells, and also in the decrease in nonspecific toxicity of the preparation.     

Electrochemical Detection of Superoxide Anion Released by Living Cells by Manganese(III) Tetraphenyl Porphine as Superoxide Dismutase Mimic

Superoxide anion, one of the most active reactive oxygen species, is associated with the development of many diseases. So monitoring superoxide anion in living cells is of great significance for the pathological research of many diseases. In this work, a new non-enzymatic sensor for the detection of superoxide anion(O₂^·-) was developed, which was fabricated by the nanocomposites composed of manganese(III) tetraphenyl porphine(MnTPP) as super-oxide dismutase mimic and electrochemical reduced graphene oxide(ERGO) as electrode support material to modify the glassy carbon electrode(GCE). The electrochemical behavior of the fabricated electrode(MnTPP/ERGO/GCE) was performed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS) and cyclic voltammetry(CV), which revealed that MnTPP/ERGO/GCE possessed good catalytic ability to the electrochemical reduction of O₂^·-. The MnTPP/ERGO/GCE showed excellent electroanalysis performance towards O₂^·- using the technique of differential pulse voltammetry(DPV) with a linear relationship in the range of 0.2-110.0 μmol/L, a sensitivity of 445 μA·L·mmol^-1·cm^-2 and a detection limit of 0.039 μmol/L(S/N=3). The real-time monitoring of O₂^·- from MCF-7 breast cancer cells stimulated by zymosan was realized in this work, which indicates that the MnTPP/ERGO/GCE hold potential application for electrochemical quantification of superoxide anions in biological applications.     

Targeted co-delivery of daunorubicin and cytarabine based on the hyaluronic acid prodrug modified liposomes

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women, and it was hard to prevent or diagnose at an early stage. Thus, it is imperative to develop advanced therapeutics for effective treatment. Herein, a targeted daunorubicin (DNR) and cytarabine (ara-C) co-delivery system was developed by modifying the ara-C loaded liposomes (LIP-ara-C) with the hyaluronic acid-DNR (HA-DNR) prodrugs. The co-assembled hybrid nanoparticles (HA-DNR/LIP-ara-C HNPs) exhibited good serum and storage stability with an average diameter of approximately 100 nm. By specifically binding to the CD44 receptors that overexpressed on cancer cells, these HNPs could be uptake via endocytosis and accumulate intracellularly, in which an optimized DNR and ara-C combination at a molar ratio of 1:5 could generate enhanced synergistic effects with reduced dose-related toxicity on cancer cells.     

Layered microcapsules for daunorubicin loading and release as well as in vitro and in vivo studies

Anti‐cancer drug daunorubicin (DNR) was encapsulated in preformed multilayer microcapsules and was applied in tumor treatment by in vitro cell culture and in vivo animal experiments. The microcapsules were fabricated by an alternate deposition of oppositely charged polysaccharides, i.e. chitosan and alginate onto carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) doped CaCO₃ colloidal particles in a sequential assembly procedure, followed by crosslinking of the capsule shells with glutaraldehyde (GA) and removal of the templates by disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). The as‐prepared microcapsules showed strong ability to induce the positively charged DNR to deposit into the microcapsule interiors. Confocal microscopy and transmission electron microscopy observed homogeneous distribution of the drug within microcapsules. The loaded DNR could be released again, following a diffusion‐controlled model at the initial stage. In vitro experiments demonstrated that the encapsulated DNR can effectively induce the apoptosis of BEL‐7402 tumor cells, as evidenced by various microscopy techniques after acridine orange (AO), Hoechst 33342, and osmium tetraoxide staining. By seeding the BEL‐7402 hepatoma cells into BALB/c/nu mice, tumors were created for the animal experiments. The results showed that the encapsulated DNR had better efficacy than that of the free drug in terms of tumor inhibition in a 4 week in vivo culture period. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Study of the interactions of berberine and daunorubicin with DNA using alternating penalty trilinear decomposition algorithm combined with excitation-emission matrix fluorescence data

Studies of interactions between drugs and DNA are very interesting and significant not only in understanding the mechanism of interaction, but also for guiding the design of new drugs. However, until recently, mechanisms of interactions between drug molecules and DNA were still relatively little known. It is necessary to introduce more simple methods to investigate the mechanism of interaction. In this study, the interactions of daunorubicin (DNR) or berberine (BER) with DNA and the competitive interactions of DNR and BER with DNA have been studied by alternating penalty trilinear decomposition algorithm (APTLD) combined with excitation-emission matrix fluorescence data. The excitation and emission spectra as well as the relative concentrations of co-existing species in different reaction and equilibrium mixtures can be directly and conveniently obtained by the APTLD treatment. The results obtained are valuable for providing a deeper insight into the interaction mechanism of DNR and BER with DNA. It is proved that the fluorescence spectrum of complex DNR-DNA is different from that of DNR. Furthermore, the present method provides a new way to search for a new non-toxic, highly efficient fluorescent probe. For controversial interaction mechanism of the drugs and DNA, it can provide a helpful verification.     

基于氧化锌/碳纳米纤维材料的氧氟沙星电化学传感器的构建及应用

通过静电纺丝技术合成碳纳米纤维,以循环伏安法在此碳纤维上电聚合乙酸锌制备复合纳米材料作为一种新型的电化学增敏剂,用于修饰玻碳电极,开发了一种基于碳纤维和氧化锌复合材料的新型电化学传感器(ZnO/CNF/GCE)。使用循环伏安法、差分脉冲伏安法等进行电化学催化性能的研究,并优化实验条件。结果表明,与裸电极相比,在pH 5.5磷酸盐缓冲溶液中,ZnO/CNF/GCE修饰电极能使氧氟沙星的峰电流明显提升,线性范围1~200μmol/L,检测限为0.33μmol/L。该ZnO/CNF/GCE修饰电极已用于氧氟沙星滴耳液中氧氟沙星的含量测定。     

Determination of daunomycin in human plasma and urine by using an interference-free analysis of excitation-emission matrix fluorescence data with second-order calibration.

Daunorubicin (DNR) is a significant antineoplastic antibiotic, which is usually applied to a chemotherapy of acute lymphatic and myelogenous leukaemia. Unfortunately, cardiotoxicity research in animals has indicated that DNR is cardiotoxic. Therefore, it is important to quantify DNR in biological fluids. A new algorithm, the alternating fitting residue (AFR) method, and the traditional parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) have been utilized to directly determine DNR in human plasma and urine. These methodologies fully exploit the second-order advantage of the employed three-way fluorescence data, allowing the analyte concentrations to be quantified even in the presence of unknown fluorescent interferents. Furthermore, in contrast to PARAFAC, more satisfactory results were gained with AFR.     

Electrochemical Detection of Alloxan on Reduced Graphene Oxide Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode

Alloxan is a toxic reagent that strongly induces the diabetes by destroying insulin‐producing β‐cells in the pancreas of living organisms. The reduction product of alloxan is dialuric acid, which is responsible for the intracellular generation of ROS to enhance the stress in living cells to cause kidney disease or diabetic nephropathy. Herein, we studied for the first time the electrochemical properties of alloxan on reduced graphene oxide modified glassy carbon electrode (rGO/GCE) in 0.1 M phosphate buffer solution (PBS) at pH 7. The obtained results were compared with graphene oxide modified GCE (GO/GCE) and bare GCE surfaces. The modified rGO/GCE showed well defined redox couple with 10 fold increase in both reduction as well as oxidation peak current for alloxan than that of GO/GCE and bare GCE. Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) technique shows the linear increase in both oxidation and reduction peak current of alloxan in the range of 30 μM to 3 mM with LOD of 1.2 μM. An amperometric signal of alloxan is also increases with respect to each addition of 50 μM of alloxan on rGO/GCE at constant potential of ?0.05 V. The linear range of alloxan is observed between 50 μM to 750 μM (S/N=3). This kind of rGO/GCE surface is more suitable platform or sensor matrix for estimating unknown concentration of alloxan molecule in the real biological systems.     

Electrode Modification Using Alkyne Manganese Phthalocyanine and Click Chemistry for Electrocatalysis

In this work, azidobenzene diazonium salt is grafted onto a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) followed by clicking of manganese tetrahexynyl phthalocyanine for the electrocatalysis of hydrazine. The GCE was first grafted via the in situ diazotization of a diazonium salt, rendering the GCE surface layered with azide groups. From this point, the 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition reaction, catalyzed by a copper catalyst was utilized to ‘click’ the manganese tetrahexynyl phthalocyanine to the surface of the grafted GCE. This new platform was then characterized using cyclic voltammetry (CV), scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Based on the cyclic voltammetry calibration curve of electrocatalysis for hydrazine, the clicked Mn phthalocyanine electrode proved to be an effective sensor with a sensitivity of 27.38 µA mM^?1 and the limit of detection (LoD) of 15.4 pM which is a great improvement compared to other reported sensors for this analyte.     

柔红霉素与DNA作用的序列特异性研究

采用紫外-可见光谱法和紫外-可见光谱电化学法研究了柔红霉素(DNR)与不同寡聚核苷酸之间的相互作用.结果表明,DNR优先作用于寡聚核苷酸的CpG位点,然后是ApG和ApC.因为DNR可与鸟嘌呤之间形成3个氢键.与双链寡聚核苷酸作用时,DNR最先插入的位点是(CpG)₂碱基对之间,其次是(TpG)(CpA)和(GpC)(ApC)碱基对之间.当DNR与存在未配对G碱基的DNA链作用时,因游离的DNR量增加使其电化学活性增加,导致DNA构象和构型的变化,使DNA生理功能受到损伤,DNA碱基增色效应显著上升.此法可用于G碱基未配对DNA链的检测.     

Debugging Eukaryotic Genetic Code Expansion for Site‐Specific Click‐PAINT Super‐Resolution Microscopy

Super‐resolution microscopy (SRM) greatly benefits from the ability to install small photostable fluorescent labels into proteins. Genetic code expansion (GCE) technology addresses this demand, allowing the introduction of small labeling sites, in the form of uniquely reactive noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs), at any residue in a target protein. However, low incorporation efficiency of ncAAs and high background fluorescence limit its current SRM applications. Redirecting the subcellular localization of the pyrrolysine‐based GCE system for click chemistry, combined with DNA‐PAINT microscopy, enables the visualization of even low‐abundance proteins inside mammalian cells. This approach links a versatile, biocompatible, and potentially unbleachable labeling method with residue‐specific precision. Moreover, our reengineered GCE system eliminates untargeted background fluorescence and substantially boosts the expression yield, which is of general interest for enhanced protein engineering in eukaryotes using GCE.     

黄芩苷在纳米MnO2-离子液体修饰电极上的电化学性质及电分析方法研究

用疏水性离子液体1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑六氟磷酸盐([BMIM]PF6)和纳米MnO2作修饰剂,通过壳聚糖(CHIT)的成膜效应,构置了玻碳修饰电极([BMIM]PF6-MnO2-CHIT/GCE).在Britton-Robinson(B-R)缓冲液中研究了黄芩苷在修饰电极上的电化学行为,建立了测定黄芩胶囊中黄芩苷含量的...     

Stripping Voltammetric Determination of Pb(II) and Cd(II) Based on the Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes-Nafion-Bismuth Modified Glassy Carbon Electrodes

Abstract

In this work, a new method for the simultaneous determination of Pb(II) and Cd(II) on the multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT)-Nafion-bismuth modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) using square-wave anodic stripping voltammetry has been studied. Scanning electron microscopy was used to investigate the characteristics of the MWNT-Nafion-bismuth modified GCE. Well-defined sharp stripping peaks were observed in the determination of Pb(II) and Cd(II) simultaneously on this electrode. Under optimized conditions, the lowest detectable concentrations were 50 ng/l for Pb(II) and 80 ng/l for Cd(II) under a 10 min preconcentration. The attractive performances of MWNT-Nafion-bismuth modified GCE demonstrated its application for a simple, rapid, and harmless determination of trace heavy metals.     

Click chemistry electrode modification using 4-ethynylbenzyl substituted cobalt phthalocyanine for applications in electrocatalysis

In this work, we report on the synthesis and applications of a new cobalt tetrakis 4-((4-ethynylbenzyl) oxy) phthalocyanine (3) for the detection of hydrazine. The glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was first grafted through diazotization, providing the GCE surface layer with azide groups. Thereafter, the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction, catalyzed by a copper(I) catalyst was used to “click” complex 3 to the grafted surface of GCE. The new platform was then characterized using cyclic voltammetry (CV), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). This work shows that 3 is an effective sensor with sensitivity of 91.5 μA mM^?1 and limit of detection of 3.28 μM which is a great improvement compared to other reported sensors for this analyte.     

Amperometric nonenzymatic determination of glucose based on a glassy carbon electrode modified with nickel(II) oxides and graphene

We have developed a stable and sensitive nonenzymatic glucose sensor by modifying a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) with a composite incorporating nickel(II) oxides and reduced graphene. The oxides were generated by directly electrodepositing nickel on the GCE with a graphene modifier using a multi-potential pulse process, and then oxidizing nickel to nickel(II) oxides by potential cycling. In comparison to the conventional nickel(II) oxides-modified GCE, this new nickel(II) oxides-graphene modified GCE (NiO-GR/GCE) has an about 1.5 times larger current response toward the nonenzymatic oxidation of glucose in alkaline media. The response to glucose is linear in the 20 μM to 4.5 mM concentration range. The limit of detection is 5 μM (at a S/N of 3), and the response time is very short (<3 s). Other beneficial features include selectivity, reproducibility and stability. A comparison was performed on the determination of glucose in commercial red wines by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and revealed the promising aspects of this sensor with respect to the determination of glucose in real samples.

基于纳米银-石墨烯复合材料的增强效应电化学测定对乙酰氨基酚

利用氧化还原反应制备纳米银-石墨烯复合纳米材料(Ag NPs-GN),将其修饰在玻碳电极表面制备了纳米银-石墨烯修饰玻碳电极(Ag NPs-GN/GCE)。在p H 4.78的Britton-Robinson(B-R)缓冲溶液中,用循环伏安法(CV)和方波伏安法(SWV)研究了对乙酰氨基酚在Ag NPs-GN/GCE和GN/GCE上的电化学行为。结果表明,二者对对乙酰氨基酚的氧化还原反应均有电催化作用,而且复合纳米材料Ag NPs-GN具有较单一GN更好的催化效果。用方波伏安法测得对乙酰氨基酚的还原峰电流与其浓度在1.0×10-7~5.0×10-4mol/L范围内呈线性关系,检出限(S/N=3)为3.0×10-8mol/L。建立了片剂中对乙酰氨基酚含量测定的新方法,修饰电极具有较好的重现性和稳定性。     

Self-assembly Induced Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence of Copper Nanoclusters Using DNA Nanoribbon Templates

Copper nanoclusters (CuNCs) are attractive electrochemiluminescence (ECL) emitters as Cu is comparatively inexpensive, nontoxic, and highly abundant. However, their ECL yield is relatively low. Herein, we report that orderly self-assembly of CuNCs using DNA nanoribbon as the template (DNR/CuNCs) conferred the CuNCs with improved ECL properties compared with individual CuNCs in both annihilation and co-reactant processes. The DNR/CuNCs resulted in a high ECL yield of 46.8 % in K₂S₂O₈, which was ≈68 times higher than that of individual CuNCs. This strategy was successfully extended to other ECL emitters, such as gold nanoclusters and the Ru(bpy)₃²⁺/TPrA system. Furthermore, as an application of DNR/CuNCs, a DNR/CuNC-based ECL biosensor with higher sensitivity was constructed for dopamine determination (two orders of magnitude lower than that previously reported), showing that DNR/CuNCs have a potential for application in ECL bioanalysis as a new type of superior luminophore candidate.