Flavin-protein interaction in bound glucose oxidase

Glucose oxidase was bound to Sepharose, Sephadex, gelatin, and dextran, yielding immobilized soluble and insoluble derivatives of the enzyme. The soluble preparations possessed higher enzymic activity than the analogous insoluble ones. The reversible dissociation process of the bound enzyme into apoenzyme and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was studied with the soluble and insoluble glucose oxidase in relation to enzymic activity and conformational changes as measured by circular dichroism and fluorescence methods. Bound apoenzyme was found to be more stable than the apoenzyme obtained from the unmodified glucose oxidase. The binding constant of FAD in bound glucose oxidase (K_diss≈10^-8M) calculated from fluorescent studies was lower than that of FAD in the native enzyme (K_diss10^-10M). The circular dichroism measurements indicated that dextran-bound glucose oxidase has a conformation similar to that of the native enzyme.     

The efficiency of immobilised glutamate oxidase decreases with surface enzyme loading: an electrostatic effect, and reversal by a polycation significantly enhances biosensor sensitivity

The apparent Michaelis constant, K(M), for glutamate oxidase (GluOx) immobilised on Pt electrodes increased systematically with enzyme loading. The effect was due, at least in part, to electrostatic repulsion between neighbouring oxidase molecules and the anionic substrate, glutamate (Glu). This understanding has allowed us to increase the Glu sensitivity of GluOx-based amperometric biosensors in the linear response region (100+/-11 nA cm(-2)microM(-1) at pH 7.4; SD, n=23) by incorporating a polycation (polyethyleneimine, PEI) to counterbalance the polyanionic protein. Differences in the behaviour of glucose biosensors of a similar configuration highlight a limitation of using glucose oxidase as a model enzyme in biosensor design.     

纳米级微带金电极上葡萄糖氧化酶的固定.性质及应用

实现了葡萄糖氧化酶以及葡萄糖氧化酶和电子传递媒体Fe(CN)^3^-~6同时在纳米级微带电极上的固定,用红外光谱和循环伏安对GOD/PPy微电极进行了表征, 研究了微带金电极上聚吡咯恒电位形成过程的动力学及葡萄糖氧化酶对其动力学过程的影响,探讨了微酶电极GOD/Fe(CN)^3^-~6/PPy对葡萄糖氧化的催化作用, 考察了PPy膜厚度和溶液中氧的存在对GOD/Fe(CN)^3^-~6/PPy微电极测定葡萄糖的影响.     

An electrochemiluminescent sensor for glucose employing a modified carbon nanotube paste electrode

A carbon nanotube paste (CNTP) electrode and a carbon nanotube paste/glucose oxidase (CNTP/GOx) electrode were prepared, and the electrochemiluminescent (ECL) behavior of luminol in the presence of glucose was investigated in detail at each of these electrodes. Compared to the classical carbon paste (CP) electrode, the CNTP electrode incorporating glucose oxidase greatly enhanced the response of the ECL sensor to glucose due to the electrocatalytic activity of the carbon nanotubes, the specificity of the enzymatic reaction, and the sensitivity of the luminol ECL reaction. Under optimal conditions, the electrode was found to respond linearly to glucose in the concentration range 1.0x10(-6) approximately 2.0x10(-3) mol/L, and the detection limit (defined as the concentration that can be detected at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3) was found to be a glucose concentration of 5.0x10(-7) mol/L. The method used to prepare the CNTP/GOx electrode was very convenient, and the electrode surface could be renewed in the case of fouling by simply polishing or cutting it to expose a new and fully active surface. The relative standard deviations (RSD) were found to be 6.8% and 8.9% for the CNTP electrode and the CNTP/GOx electrode (n=6). The electrode retained 95% of its initial response after two weeks.     

On-line biosensors for simultaneous determination of glucose, choline, and glutamate integrated with a microseparation system

An effective microseparation system integrated with ring-disc electrodes and two microfluidic devices was fabricated for in vivo determination using a microdialysis pump. The major interference of ascorbic acid (AA) was excluded by direct oxidation with ascorbate oxidase. Glucose, glutamate, and choline were successfully determined simultaneously through the biosensors modified with a bilayer of osmium-poly(4-vinylpyridine)gel-horseradish peroxidase (Os-gel-HRP)/glucose oxidase (GOD), glutamate oxidase (GlutaOD) or choline oxidase (ChOD). To stabilize the biosensors, 0.2% polyethylenimine (PEI) was mixed with the oxidases. The cathodic currents of glucose, glutamate, and choline biosensors started to increase after the standard solutions were injected into the microseparation system. The on-line biosensors show a wide calibration range (10(-7)-10(-5) mol/L) with a detection limit of 10(-8) mol/L at the working potential of -50 mV. The variations of glucose, glutamate, and choline were determined simultaneously in a free moving rat when we perfused the medial frontal cortex with 100 micro mol/L N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) solution, which is the agonist of the NMDA receptor.     

Use of glucose oxidase in a membrane reactor for gluconic acid production

This article aims at the evaluation of the catalytic performance of glucose oxidase (GO) (EC.1.1.3.4) for the glucose/gluconic acid conversion in the ultrafiltration cell type membrane reactor (MB-CSTR). The reactor was coupled with a Millipore ultrafiltration-membrane (cutoff of 100 kDa) and operated for 24 h under agitation of 100 rpm, pH 5.5, and 30 degrees C. The experimental conditions varied were the glucose concentration (2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 20.0, and 40.0 mM), the feeding rate (0.5, 1.0, 3.0, and 6.0/h), dissolved oxygen (8.0 and 16.0 mg/L), GO concentration (2.5, 5.0, 10.0, and 20.0 U(GO)/mL), and the glucose oxidase/catalase activity ratio (U(GO)/U(CAT))(1:0, 1:10, 1:20, and 1:30). A conversion yield of 80% and specific reaction rate of 40 x 10(-4) mmol/h x U(GO) were attained when the process was carried out under the following conditions: D =3.0/h, dissolved oxygen =16.0 mg/L, [G] =40 mM, and (U(GO)/U(CAT)) =1:20. A simplified model for explaining the inhibition of GO activity by hydrogen peroxide, formed during the glucose/gluconic acid conversion, was presented.     

A Chemiluminescence Optical Fiber Glucose Biosensor Based on Co-immobilizing Glucose Oxidase and Horseradish Peroxidase in a Sol-gel Film

IntroductionIn recent years chemiluminescence (CL)biosensor prepared by immobilization of a sensitivereagent such as peroxidase or oxidase onto a solidmatrix has attracted much attention due to the highsensitivity of the chemiluminescent reaction of thesensitive reagent even with a simple instrument.Generally,CL biosensors can be divided into twocategories.One consists of hydrogen peroxide sen-sors prepared by immobilizing a kind of peroxidaseonto a suitable solid support[1,2 ] ,and the immo…     

Some possibilities for the immobilization of enzymes in poly(vinyl acetate-co-ethylene) tubes

The inside surface of poly(vinyl acetate-co-ethylene) tubes was coated with poly(vinyl alcohol) in the absence as well as in the presence of terephthalaldehyde as crosslinking agent. A hydrophilic inside tube surface was obtained, which was modified by reaction with 2, 4, 6-trichloro-s-triazine resp. with 2-(3-aminophenyl)-l,3-dioxolane. The latter method gave reactive tube supports after diazotization resp. after activation with glutardialdehyde. Furthermore, the amino derivative could be reacted with enzyme aggregates formed by reaction of glucose oxidase with 4-(2,3-epoxypropoxy)-benzaldehyde. Trypsin and glucose oxidase were immobilized onto the activated inside tube surfaces, and the properties of the immobilized enzymes were studied. The flow patterns of tube-immobilized trypsin were studied. The application of tube-immobilized glucose oxidase for automated glucose analysis was tested.     

Biosensor Based on TTF@ SiO2 Nanoparticles as Electron Transfer Mediator for the Determination of Glucose

IntroductionBecause of the high demand for blood glucose mo-nitoring, significant research and development effortshave been devoted to produce reliable glucose sensorsforin vitroorin vivoapplications[1,2]. With the appli-cations of this device, many relev…     

以天青Ⅰ为介体的纳米金颗粒增强的葡萄糖传感器

采用层层自组装的方法和异种电荷互相吸引的原理,将Nafion修饰在金电极上固载带正电荷的天青Ⅰ,并利用天青Ⅰ中的氨基固载纳米金,再通过纳米金将酶固定在金电极表面,制成了葡萄糖传感器.采用循环伏安法和交流阻抗法,研究了金电极表面组装各层之后的电化学特征,以及电极对葡萄糖的电化学催化作用. 结果表明,天青Ⅰ不仅可以固定酶和纳米金,而且还可以在酶和电极之间有效地传递电子.在优化的实验条件下,该传感器对葡萄糖响应的线性范围为5.1×10-6 ~4.0×10-3 mol/L,检出限(S/N=3)为1.0 μmol/L.该生物传感器显示出较好的稳定性和抗干扰能力,将其用于人体血清中葡萄糖的测定,结果令人满意.     

Extracting kinetic parameters for homogeneous [Os(bpy)2ClPyCOOH]+ mediated enzyme reactions from cyclic voltammetry and simulations

The homogeneous reaction between glucose oxidase and osmium bipyridine-pyridine carboxylic acid in the presence of glucose has been studied in detail by cyclic voltammetry and digital simulation. Combination of the analytical equations that describe the dependence of the amperometric response on enzyme, substrate and co-substrate concentrations for the limiting cases with digital simulation of the coupled enzyme reaction diffusion problem allows us to extract kinetic parameters for the substrate-enzyme reaction: K(MS)=10.8 mM, k(cat)=254 s(-1) and for the redox mediator-enzyme reaction, k=2.2x10(5) M(-1) s(-1). The accurate determination of the kinetic parameters at low substrate concentrations (<7 mM) is limited by depletion of the substrate close to the electrode surface. At high substrate concentrations (>20 mM) inactivation of the reduced form of glucose oxidase in the bulk solution must be taken into account in the analysis of the results.     

Coulometric titration of D(+)-glucose using its enzymatic oxidation.

A definitive method is described for the indirect assay of milligram quantities of D(+)-glucose by coulometric titration. D(+)-Glucose was aerobically oxidized by glucose oxidase in an acetate buffer solution (pH 5.1). Subsequently, the enzymatically formed hydrogen peroxide was titrated coulometrically with electrogenerated hypobromite in sodium bromide-sodium tetraborate medium of pH 8.6, with biamperometric end-point detection. Parameters affecting the enzymatically catalyzed oxidation and coulometric titration were evaluated. The optimized conditions for the oxidation of up to 20 mg of D(+)-glucose include the addition of 4500 U of glucose oxidase and stirring over a 10-min interval at 25 degrees C. Under proposed conditions, the assay values of several commercial D(+)-glucose reagents were somewhat lower than the guaranteed minimum values, with RSDs (n = 5) of 0.071 - 0.106%.     

葡萄糖氧化酶在氨基功能化三维有序大孔材料上的固定化研究

一类新型功能化三维有序大孔（3DOM）材料被用于固载葡萄糖氧化酶．以聚苯乙烯胶晶为模板,三氨基丙基三乙氧基硅烷和正硅酸乙酯为前驱物,合成了不同氨基含量的3DOM SiO2-NH2材料．并以戊二醛为交联剂,成功地在3DOM SiO2-NH2材料表面嫁接了葡萄糖氧化酶,所得材料具有较高的催化活性．SEM观察表明,3DOM SiO2-NH2材料具有规则整齐相通的大孔孔道结构．FTIR测试表明材料中含有氨基及有机基团,戊二醛及葡萄糖氧化酶以C=N键嫁接在3DOM材料孔壁表面．     

基于蛋壳膜固定酶和纳米银膜光度法对葡萄糖的检测

利用蛋壳膜固定酶和静电作用组装纳米银膜,建立了一种新型的光度法检测微量葡萄糖.采用共价交联法在蛋壳膜上固定葡萄糖氧化酶.酶促反应产生的H_2O_2氧化纳米银导致纳米银膜吸光度减小,日光强度的变化值与葡萄糖浓度有关,据此实现了对葡萄糖的检测.该方法检测快速,线性范围为6.0×10~(-5)～66.0×10~(-5)mol/L(r=0.999 7,n=11),检出限(S/N=3)为1.8×10~(-5) mol/L.方法成功用于临床血清样品中葡萄糖含量的检测.     

Hydrogen peroxide and glucose biosensor based on silver nanowires synthesized by polyol process

Silver nanowires synthesized through a polyol process using polyvinylpyrrolidone as protection (PVP-AgNWs) were used as a new electrode material for constructing a sensor. Hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and glucose were used as analytes to demonstrate the sensor performance of the PVP-AgNWs. It is found that the PVP-AgNWs-modified glassy carbon electrode (PVP-AgNWs/GCE) exhibits remarkable catalytic performance toward H(2)O(2) reduction. This sensor has a fast amperometric response time of less than 2 s and the catalytic current is linear over the concentration of H(2)O(2) ranging from 20 μM to 3.62 mM (R = 0.998) with a detection limit of 2.3 μM estimated on a signal-to-noise ratio of 3. A glucose biosensor was constructed by immobilizing glucose oxidase (GOD) onto the surface of the PVP-AgNWs/GCE. The resultant glucose biosensor can be used for glucose detection in human blood serum with a sensitivity of 15.86 μA mM(-1) cm(-2) and good selectivity and stability.     

Catalytic activity of oxidases hosted in lipidic cubic phases on electrodes

The monoolein-based liquid crystalline cubic phase was used as the matrix to incorporate redox enzymes--glucose (GOx), pyranose (PyOx) oxidases and laccase. Thin layer of the cubic phase embedding GOx or PyOx activated glucose oxidation in the presence and absence of appropriate mediators. The electrodes exhibited unchanged voltammetric response to glucose for not less than six days. The potentials and ratio of catalytic to diffusion currents could be modified by choosing appropriate electroactive probes as mediators. Ferrocenecarboxylic acid and Ru(NH3)6(2+) provided contact between the electrode and the enzyme. The sensitivity to glucose for glucose oxidase was 0.4+/-0.05, 11+/-3.1 microA/cm2/mM without mediator and with ferrocenecarboxylic acid respectively and 0.9+/-0.06, 31+/-5.6 microA/cm2/mM for pyranose oxidase without and with mediator. The system based on glucose oxidase and Ru(NH3)6(2+) as mediator was found useful due to the most negative potential of the process. The catalyses of oxygen reduction by two laccases: Cerrena unicolor and Trametes hirsuta embedded in the cubic phase together with 2,2'-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate (ABTS) as the mediator were found efficient and the reduction potential was positive enough to be considered in the application of lyotropic liquid crystals as a material for biofuel cells.     

Simultaneous determination of D-glucose and 3-hydroxybutyrate by chemiluminescence detection with immobilized enzymes in a flow injection system.

A chemiluminometric flow-through sensor for the simultaneous determination of glucose (Glu) and 3-hydroxybutyrate (HB) in a single sample has been developed. Coimmobilized 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase/NADH oxidase/peroxidase, a support material, and coimmobilized glucose dehydrogenase/NADH oxidase/peroxidase were packed sequentially in a transparent PTFE tube. The tube was then placed in front of a photomultiplier tube as a flow cell. A two-peak recording was obtained by one injection of the sample solution. The peak heights of the first and second peaks were dependent on the concentrations of HB and Glu, respectively. The calibration graphs for HB and Glu were linear at 0.05-10 and 0.1-30 microM, respectively. The maximum sample throughput was 30 h(-1). The sensor was stable for two weeks.     

Determination of intracellular glutathione and glutathione disulfide using high performance liquid chromatography with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection

Measurement of glutathione (GSH) and glutathione disulfide (GSSG) is a crucial tool to assess cellular redox state. Herein we report a direct approach to determine intracellular GSH based on a rapid chromatographic separation coupled with acidic potassium permanganate chemiluminescence detection, which was extended to GSSG by incorporating thiol blocking and disulfide bond reduction. Importantly, this simple procedure avoids derivatisation of GSH (thus minimising auto-oxidation) and overcomes problems encountered when deriving the concentration of GSSG from 'total GSH'. The linear range and limit of detection for both analytes were 7.5 × 10(-7) to 1 × 10(-5) M, and 5 × 10(-7) M, respectively. GSH and GSSG were determined in cultured muscle cells treated for 24 h with glucose oxidase (0, 15, 30, 100, 250 and 500 mU mL(-1)), which exposed them to a continuous source of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Both analyte concentrations were greater in myotubes treated with 100 or 250 mU mL(-1) glucose oxidase (compared to untreated controls), but were significantly lower in myotubes treated with 500 mU mL(-1) (p < 0.05), which was rationalised by considering measurements of H(2)O(2) and cell viability. However, the GSH/GSSG ratio in myotubes treated with 100, 250 and 500 mU mL(-1) glucose oxidase exhibited a dose-dependent decrease that reflected the increase in intracellular ROS.     

A glucose biosensor based on chitosan-Prussian blue-multiwall carbon nanotubes-hollow PtCo nanochains formed by one-step electrodeposition

In this paper, a simple one-step electrodeposition method is described to fabricate chitosan-Prussian blue-multiwall carbon nanotubes-hollow PtCo nanochains (CS-PB-MWNTs-H-PtCo) film onto the gold electrode surface, then glucose oxidase (GOD) and Nafion were modified onto the film subsequently to fabricate a glucose biosensor. The morphologies and electrochemistry of the composite were investigated by using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical techniques including cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), respectively. The performances of the biosensor have been investigated by chronoamperometry method under the optimized conditions. This biosensor showed a linear response to glucose range from 1.5 μM to 1.12 mM with a detection limit of 0.47 μM (S/N=3), a high sensitivity of 23.4 μA mM(-1) cm(-2), and a fast response time. The apparent Michaelis-Menten constant (K(M)(app)) was 1.89 mM. In addition, the biosensor also exhibited strong anti-interference ability, excellent stability and good reproducibility.     

Purification of the glycoprotein glucose oxidase from Penicillium amagasakiense by high-performance liquid chromatography

Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) in combination with ion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column was used to purify glucose oxidase from Penicillium amagasakiense to homogeneity. Purification was performed with a mixed pH and salt gradient, with 20 mM phosphate buffer (pH 8.5) as starting buffer (A) and 50 mM acetate buffer (pH 3.6) with 0.1 M NaCl as elution buffer (B). Elution conditions were optimized to permit the simultaneous purification and separation of the glucose oxidase isoforms. Three peaks, each consisting of 1-2 isoforms and exhibiting a homogeneous titration curve profile, were resolved with a very flat linear gradient of 5.0-5.1% B in 40 ml. Three more peaks, each consisting of several isoforms, were eluted at 10%, 30% and 100% B. Optimization of the elution conditions and separation of the glucose oxidase isoforms was only possible because of the rapidity of each purification step and the high resolution provided by FPLC and Mono Q.