Study of Factors Affecting the Performance of Voltammetric Copper Sensors Based on Gly‐Gly‐His Modified Glassy Carbon and Gold Electrodes

This paper reports a study of the factors affecting the analytical performance of gold and glassy carbon electrodes modified with the tripeptide Gly‐Gly‐His for the detection of copper ions. Gly‐Gly‐His is attached to a glassy carbon (GC) surface modified with 4‐carboxyphenyl moieties or a gold surface modified with 3‐mercaptopropionic acid by the reaction of the N‐terminal amine group of the peptide with the carboxylic acid groups of the monolayer via carbodiimide activation. X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to characterize the steps in the biosensor fabrication. It was found that the analytical performance of a sensor prepared with Gly‐Gly‐His on a GC electrode was similar to that on a gold electrode under the same conditions. The performance was greatly enhanced at higher temperature, no added salt during copper accumulation and longer accumulation time within a pH range of 7–9. Interference studies and investigations of stability of the Gly‐Gly‐His sensor are reported. Analysis of natural water samples show that the sensors measure only copper ions that can complex at the sensor surface. Strongly complexed copper in natural water is not measured. Despite greater stability of diazonium salt derived monolayers on carbon surfaces compared with alkanethiols self‐assembled monolayers on gold, the stability of the sensors was essentially the same regardless of the modification procedure.     

Preparation of core–shell structure Fe3O4@SiO2 superparamagnetic microspheres immoblized with iminodiacetic acid as immobilized metal ion affinity adsorbents for His‐tag protein purification

The core–shell structure Fe₃O₄/SiO₂ magnetic microspheres were prepared by a sol–gel method, and immobiled with iminodiacetic acid (IDA) as metal ion affinity ligands for protein adsorption. The size, morphology, magnetic properties and surface modification of magnetic silica nanospheres were characterized by various modern analytical instruments. It was shown that the magnetic silica nanospheres exhibited superparamagnetism with saturation magnetization values of up to 58.1 emu/g. Three divalent metal ions, Cu²⁺, Ni²⁺ and Zn²⁺, were chelated on the Fe₃O₄@SiO₂–IDA magnetic microspheres to adsorb lysozyme. The results indicated that Ni²⁺‐chelating magnetic microspheres had the maximum adsorption capacity for lysozyme of 51.0 mg/g, adsorption equilibrium could be achieved within 60 min and the adsorbed protein could be easily eluted. Furthermore, the synthesized Fe₃O₄@SiO₂–IDA–Ni²⁺ magnetic microspheres were successfully applied for selective enrichment lysozyme from egg white and His‐tag recombinant Homer 1a from the inclusion extraction expressed in Escherichia coli. The result indicated that the magnetic microspheres showed unique characteristics of high selective separation behavior of protein mixture, low nonspecific adsorption, and easy handling. This demonstrates that the magnetic silica microspheres can be used efficiently in protein separation or purification and show great potential in the pretreatment of the biological sample. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Analysis of nucleotides binding to chromatography supports provided by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The epitope mapping of nucleotides bound to three chromatography supports is accomplished using saturation transfer difference (STD)-NMR spectroscopy. This experiment involves subtracting a spectrum in which the support was selectively saturated from one recorded without support saturation. In the difference spectrum only the signals of the ligands that bind to the support and received saturation transfer remain. The nucleotide protons in closer contact with the support have more intense signals due to a more efficient transfer of saturation. We investigate the effects on the binding to the nucleotides by the introduction of a spacer arm between l-histidine and Sepharose. Our NMR experiments evidence a clear contribution of the spacer to the interaction with all the nucleotides, increasing the mobility of the amino acid and giving different STD responses. This enhanced mobility originates the reinforcement of the interactions with the sugar moiety and phosphate group of 5'-CMP and 5'-TMP or the base of 5'-GMP and 5'-UMP. Hence, with this study we show that by using STD NMR technique on chromatographic systems it is possible to provide a fast, robust and efficient way of screening the atoms involved in the binding to the supports.     

基于次血红素六肽的过氧化氢和葡萄糖灵敏比色方法

采用次血红素六肽(DhHP-6)催化H₂O₂氧化4-氨基安替吡啉-氯代苯酚显色体系,建立了测定H₂O₂和葡萄糖的方法。 研究了pH值、底物浓度和DhHP-6浓度对实验的影响,检测了比色方法的反应线性、稳定性、相关性和回收率。 在最佳反应条件下,DhHP-6在不同时间及温度条件下,活性要优于过氧化物酶(POD);DhHP-6催化H₂O₂ 的米氏常数(K_m)和最大反应速率(v_max)分别为0.171 mmo/L和4.22×10^-6 mol/s;H₂O₂响应的线性范围为0.39~25.0 mmol/L;高、中、低 3水平测定的变异系数(CV)和加标回收率分别在1.29%~2.16%和94.5%~101.1%之间;与葡萄糖商品试剂盒比较相关系数R²=0.9946;36例血液样品中的葡萄糖浓度在4.26~17.48 mmol/L之间。 与葡萄糖检测商品试剂盒之间的两组数据经统计差异不显著(P>0.05)。 该方法是一种简单、廉价、方便、灵敏的比色测定方法。     

Electromagnetic induction detector for capillary electrophoresis and its application in pharmaceutical analysis

A new electromagnetic induction detector for capillary electrophoresis and its application are described. The detector is consisted of an inductor, a resistor, a high-frequency signal generator and a high-frequency millivoltmeter. The conditions affecting the response of the detector, including dimension of the magnetic ring, position of the capillary, number of coil turns, frequency, excitation voltage and value of the resistor were examined and optimized. The feasibility of the proposed detector was evaluated by detection of inorganic ions and separation of amino aids. Its quantification applicability was investigated by determination of aspirin and paracetamol in pharmaceutical preparation (Akafen powder). The primary factors affecting separation efficiency, which include variety of buffer, buffer concentration, injection time and injection height and separation voltage, were researched. Experimental results demonstrated that this new detector showed a well-defined correlation between sample concentrations and responses (r = 0.997-0.999), with detection limits of 30 μmol L⁻¹ for aspirin and 10 μmol L⁻¹ for paracetamol, as well as good reproducibility and stability. Compared with currently available detection techniques, this new detector has several advantages, such as simple construction, no complicated elements, ease of assembly and operation, and potential for universal applications. It can be an alternative to the traditional methods in the quality control of the pharmaceutical preparations.     

配合物Zn(His)SO4·H2O(s)的低温热容和热力学性质

通过精密自动绝热热量计测定了配合物Zn(His)SO4*H2O(s)在78～390K温区的摩尔热容,由热容曲线得到其起始脱水温度328.90K;用最小二乘法拟合得到摩尔热容(Cp,m)对温度(T)的多项式方程,并在此基础上计算了它的各种热力学函数.此外,研究了其在惰性气氛下的热分解过程.     

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Metal Ion Binding to the His‐tag Motif

In our previous study, we have observed that the chelation of various metal ions to the His‐tag motifs mostly involves the i and i+2 His residues for Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺ and Co²+. In the present study, various 200 ps molecular dynamics simulations were further conducted to investigate the chelating pathway of various metal ions to the His‐tag motif with 6 His residues (His‐tag6) and the binding affinities of these metal binding pockets towards these metal ions. The results indicate that His‐tag6 with the chelated metal ion located in positions His(2,4) or His(3,5) exhibits the strongest affinity for Ni²+ and Cu²+.K⁺ was found to be preferred to chelate in His(1,3) and His(3,5) coordinations. However, Fe³+ was found to have higher affinity towards His(1,3) and His(2,4) binding pockets. Our results also suggest that Ni²⁺ exhibits the highest binding affinity towards His‐tag6 over the other metal ions. Most of the structural variations of the His‐tag6 motif were from the Histidyl side chains during metal ion binding. In addition, there is an inverse linear correlation between the final chelated distance and the charge/volume ratio of metal ion. There is a negative correlation between the metal binding affinity and the averaged potential energy generated from the MD simulations.     

光谱、波谱法研究铜锌超氧歧化酶与氯化钴(Ⅱ)、组氨酸钴(Ⅱ)相互作用

我们首次发现的铜锌超氧歧化酶（Ｃｕ２Ｚｎ２ＳＯＤ）与氨基酸等发生直接相互作用的现象,是一种前人未研究过的重要的生化新现象［１］。在此新发现的基础上,本文用ＩＣＰ,ＶＩＳ,ＮＭＲ和酶活性测定等方法,又从不同角度拓展研究了Ｃｕ２Ｚｎ２ＳＯＤ酶与两类不同化合物,即无机氯化钴（ＣｏＣｌ２）、有机组氨酸钴（Ｃｏ（Ⅱ）（Ｈｉｓ）ｎ）的直接相互作用,发现酶活性中心金属离子同样与外加的这两类不同化合物发生相互作用,相应地影响了酶的催化活性。还发现Ｃｏ（Ⅱ）（Ｈｉｓ）ｎ比ＣｏＣｌ２与酶相互作用更强、更快,Ｃｏ（Ⅱ）（Ｈｉｓ）ｎ中的Ｃｏ（Ⅱ）更易进入酶中,更影响了酶的催化活性。     

Highly branched stimuli responsive poly[(N-isopropyl acrylamide)-co-(1,2-propandiol-3-methacrylate)]s with protein binding functionality

Highly branched poly(NIPAM) have been prepared using the technique of reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerisation using a chain transfer agent that allows the incorporation of imidazole functionality in the polymer chain-ends. The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the polymers can be controlled by the amount of hydrophobe and GMA incorporated during copolymerisation procedures. These thermally responsive "smart" polymers were used to purify a His-tagged BRCA-1 protein fragment by affinity precipitation. [Diagram: see text]