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BIOSENSORS
Modern and future approaches to
medical diagnostics
James F. Rusling
Dept. of Chemistry, Univ CT, Storrs,
Dept. of Cell Biology, Univ. of CT Health
Center
F. A. Armstrong, H. A. Heering, and J. Hirst, Reactions of complex metalloproteins studies by
protein film voltammetry. J. Chem. Soc. Rev. 26, 169-179 (1997).
J. F. Rusling, Z. Zhang, Designing functional biomolecular films on electrodes. in J. F. Rusling,
Ed., Biomolecular Films, Marcel Dekker, N. Y., 2003, pp. 1-64.
Medical Diagnostics
• Doctors increasingly rely on testing
• Needs: rapid, cheap, and “low tech”
• Done by technicians or patients
• Some needs for in-vivo operation, with
feedback
Principle of Electrochemical Biosensors
substrate product
Enzyme
(label)
electrode
Figure 9
Equipment for developing electrochemical biosensors
potentiostat
insulator electrode
material
reference
Protein film
N2 counter
inlet
working electrode
E-t waveform
Cyclic
E, V
voltammetry
Electrochemical cell
time
A lipid-enzyme film
enzyme
Electrode
Cyclic voltammogram (CV) at 100 mV s-1 and 25 oC of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis KatG
catalase-peroxidase in a thin film of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine on basal plane PG electrode,
in anaerobic pH 6.0 buffer.
2
Reversible
Peaks for 1.5 Reduction
Direct electron 1
Of FeIII
Transfer 0.5
I , µA
-0.5
-1
Oxidation
-1.5 Of FeII
(not all proteins -2
0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -0.8
do this) E, V vs SCE
Catalytic enzyme electrochemistry
a basis for biosensor - glucose oxidase
I = f [glucose]
oxidation
Fc + glucose
+ enzyme
Mediator shuttles
Electrons between
Fc Enzyme and electrode
mediator
Fc Fc+ + e- (measured)
GOR + 2 Fc + --> GOox + 2 Fc
Dry coating of GO + Fc
e’s
Meter electrodes
Read glucose
Protein
layer + + + + + + + + + + + +
Polycation soln.,
then wash
+ + + + + + + + + + + +
+ + + + + + + + + + + +
Polycation layers
Protein
layer
Figure 19
Detection of hydrogen peroxide
Conductive polymers efficiently wire
peroxidase enzymes to graphite
e’s
Xin Yu, G. A. Sotzing, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, J. F.
Rusling, Highly Efficient Wiring of Enzymes to Electrodes
by Ultrathin Conductive Polyion Underlayers: Enhanced
Catalytic Response to Hydrogen Peroxide, Anal. Chem.,
2003, 75, 4565-4571.
Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP)
100nm
50nm
+e- O2
PFe III - PFe II PFe II-O2
-e +
2e-, 2H
H2O2
II
•PFeIV=O H2O2 + PFe
active oxidant
H2O2
PFeIII + H2O + O2
60
µM H 0
2 2
50
a 7.5 reduction
40 6
I,µA 4
30
with SPAN
2
20
0.5
10
0
0
FeIII/FeII
-10
0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -0.8
E, V vs SCE
Rotating electrode amperometry at 0 V
HRP, 50 nmol H2O2 additions
1
reduction
with PAPSA
span
I, µA
0.5
without PAPSA
No span
0
0.8
Span/HRP
I, µA
PAPSA/HRP
PAPSA/Mb
0.6 Span/Mb
0.4
HRP
0.2 Mb
0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6
[H O ], µM
2 2
• Highly conductive,
flexible, strong,
patternable
• Commercially Available
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
Forests: Antigen-Antibody Sensing
~1.4 nm diameter, high conductivity
SPAN or
Nafion
Ag Ag
Ab
2 Ab1
Ab1
HPR
H
R
P
10
300 0.4 mM hydroquinone;
0.4 mM H O
I , µA 8 140 2 2
45 controls
4
15
c d
2 7.5 a b 300
140
1.5 140
0
0
no SWNT bare PG
-2
0 500 1000 1500
t, s
• SWNTs provide 10-20 fold signal enhancement
• Nanotubes aged in DMF fewer defects denser forests
. Xin Yu, Sang Nyon Kim, Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, and James F. Rusling,
"Protein Immunosensor Using Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Forests with Electrochemical
Detection of Enzyme Labels", Molecular Biosystems, 2005, 1, 70-78.
Initial Target: Prostate Specific Antigen
~170 labels
per PSA
Using HRP-Ab2-nanotube
Amperometric response at –0.3 V and 3000 rpm for SWNT immunosensors incubated with PSA
in 10 µL undiluted newborn calf serum for 1.25 hr using the Ab2-CNT-HRP bioconjugate
Mediator + H2O2
Amperometric current at –0.3 V and 3000 rpm for human serum samples and PSA standards in
calf serum
Using conventional HRP-Ab2