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Mostafa IM, Liu H, Hanif S, Gilani MRHS, Guan Y, Xu G. Synthesis of a Novel Electrochemical Probe for the Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biothiols and Its Clinical Applications. Anal Chem 2022; 94:6853-6859. [PMID: 35476395 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The ability to estimate and quantify biothiols in biological fluids is very significant for attaining a detailed understanding of biothiols-related pathological diseases. Most of the developed methods for biothiols detection are not suitable for this purpose owing to their low sensitivity, poor selectivity, and long experimental procedures. In this study, a novel and simple structure electrochemical probe has been synthesized for the first time for the selective determination of biothiols. The developed probe is based on using 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl moiety (DNBS) as a selective recognition moiety for biothiols. The electrochemical probe was successfully fabricated through a facile one-step reaction between 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride (DNBS-Cl) and p-aminophenol. The successful synthesis of the probe was confirmed by using different characterization techniques such as an NMR spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Biothiols can selectively cleave the DNBS moiety through an aromatic nucleophilic substitution (ANS) reaction within 10 min to release p-aminophenol, which is a highly electrochemical active molecule that can be selectively detected easily by cyclic voltammetry at low potential. The probe has been employed for the quantification of cysteine, glutathione, and homocysteine with a LOD of 1.50, 3.48, and 4.67 μM, respectively. Excellent recoveries have been achieved in the range of 95.44-98.71% for the determination of the total biothiols in the human plasma sample.
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- Islam M Mostafa
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, PR China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, PR China.,Minia University, Minia 61519, Arab Republic of Egypt
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, PR China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, PR China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Medical Sciences, The Mall Road, Rawalpindi, Punjab 46000, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, PR China.,University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, PR China
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Zhao N, Song J, Huang Z, Yang X, Wang Y, Zhao L. Ratiometric fluorescence probe of Cu 2+ and biothiols by using carbon dots and copper nanoclusters. RSC Adv 2021; 11:33662-33674. [PMID: 35497542 PMCID: PMC9042249 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra05854a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A novel dual-emission ratiometric fluorescent probe based on N-doped yellow fluorescent carbon dots (y-CDs) and blue fluorescent copper nanoclusters (CuNCs) was established for quantitative determination of Cu2+ and biothiols. In this work, the Cu2+-(y-CDs) complexes formed by the chelation of y-CDs with Cu2+, showed an absorption peak at 430 nm that not only enhanced the fluorescence of y-CDs through inhibiting photoinduced electron transfer (PET) but also effectively quenched the fluorescence of CuNCs due to Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). In addition, the chelation of y-CDs with Cu2+ could be inhibited by biothiols that prevented the fluorescence of y-CDs from being enhanced and the fluorescence of CuNCs from being quenched. On account of the changes of ratiometric signal, a dual-emission fluorescence probe for Cu2+ and biothiols determination was achieved. The proposed method exhibited high sensitivity for Cu2+ and biothiols in the ranges of 0.5-100 μM and 0.8-50 μM and the limits of detection (LODs) of Cu2+, glutathione (GSH), cysteine (Cys) and homocysteine (Hcy) were 0.21 μM, 0.33 μM, 0.39 μM and 0.46 μM, respectively. Subsequently, the established strategy presented an application prospect for the detection of Cu2+ and biothiols in real samples.
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- Ning Zhao
- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University 103 Wenhua Road Shenhe District Shenyang Liaoning 110016 P. R. China +86-24-4352-0571 +86-24-4352-0571
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University 103 Wenhua Road Shenhe District Shenyang Liaoning 110016 P. R. China +86-24-4352-0571 +86-24-4352-0571
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University 103 Wenhua Road Shenhe District Shenyang Liaoning 110016 P. R. China +86-24-4352-0571 +86-24-4352-0571
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- Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Medicinal and Edible Plants Resources of Hainan Province Haikou Hainan 571126 China
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- Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Medicinal and Edible Plants Resources of Hainan Province Haikou Hainan 571126 China
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- School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University 103 Wenhua Road Shenhe District Shenyang Liaoning 110016 P. R. China +86-24-4352-0571 +86-24-4352-0571
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Nanozyme based on CoFe 2O 4 modified with MoS 2 for colorimetric determination of cysteine and glutathione. Mikrochim Acta 2021; 188:65. [PMID: 33543407 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-021-04702-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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A nanozyme based on CoFe2O4 modified with MoS2 was constructed for colorimetric determination of cysteine (Cys) and glutathione (GSH). Firstly, ferrite CoFe2O4 is synthesized, and it is then modified by MoS2 to form a flower-like polymer (MoS2@CoFe2O4). In the presence of H2O2, a redox interaction takes place, and the resulting hydroxyl promoted a colorimetric conversion from colorless to blue in the presence of 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB). However, once Cys or GSH is added, they are capable to compete with the interaction of the hydroxyl with TMB, resulting in an inhibition of the colorimetric conversion. The colorimetric distinction is sensitive to the amount of target. The results obtained proved that the catalytic efficiency of MoS2@CoFe2O4 is 4.4-fold and 1.8-fold to that of MoS2 and CoFe2O4. Meanwhile, the Km values to TMB and H2O2 are 0.067 and 0.048 mM, respectively, which are 6.5-fold and 77-fold, respectively smaller than those of natural peroxidase such as HPR. This indicates that the MoS2@CoFe2O4 possesses a favorable interaction affinity. Additionally, the colorimetric distinction caused by the competition between TMB and cysteine or glutathione is obvious. The signal responses to cysteine and glutathione are linear in the range 0.5~15 μM and 0.5~35 μM, and the LODs are 0.10 and 0.21 μM, respectively. In practical assay of Cys in serum, the RSD of the sample tests is 4.6%, and the recoveries for the spiked assays are 95.3% and 96.0% with the RSD of 2.1% and 4.2%, respectively.
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Ren L, Li H, Du J. Black phosphorus quantum dots are useful oxidase mimics for colorimetric determination of biothiols. Mikrochim Acta 2020; 187:229. [DOI: 10.1007/s00604-020-4222-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cao N, Zhou H, Tan H, Qi R, Chen J, Zhang S, Xu J. Turn-on fluorescence detection of cysteine with glutathione protected silver nanoclusters. Methods Appl Fluoresc 2019; 7:034004. [PMID: 31174198 DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab27d9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In this work, we report a sensitive and selective turn-on fluorescence detection of cysteine with glutathione protected silver nanoclusters (GSH-Ag NCs). The glutathione stabilized silver nanoclusters were synthesized by the boiling water method. When excited at 380 nm, the GSH-Ag NCs exhibited a weak emission at about 680 nm, which could be enhanced by cysteine. The proposed method allows evaluation of cysteine in the range of 2-3000 μM with a detection limit of 0.51 μM. The recoveries were found to be 95.07%-101.38% when detecting cysteine contents in fetal bovine serum samples. In addition, we also discussed the possible mechanism for the fluorescence enhancement of GSH-Ag NCs by addition of cysteine. It might be the formation of cysteine and glutathione co-capped Ag NCs. This work reported a fluorimetric method for the assay of cysteine and provided a strategy for the synthesis of dual ligand-protected Ag nanoclusters.
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- Nan Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
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Hanko M, Švorc Ľ, Planková A, Mikuš P. Overview and recent advances in electrochemical sensing of glutathione - A review. Anal Chim Acta 2019; 1062:1-27. [PMID: 30947984 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.02.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The present paper is aimed at providing an overview of the recent advances in the electrochemical sensing of glutathione (GSH), an important electrochemically and biologically active molecule, for the period 2012-2018. Herein, the analytical performances of newly developed electrochemical methods, procedures and protocols for GSH sensing are comprehensively and critically discussed with respect to the type of method, electrodes used (new electrode modifications, advanced materials and formats), sample matrices, and basic validation parameters obtained (limit of detection, linear dynamic range, precision, selectivity/evaluation of interferences). This paper considers electrochemical methods used alone as well as the hyphenated methods with electrochemical detection (ECD), such as HPLC-ECD or CE-ECD. The practical applicability of the platforms developed for GSH detection and quantification is mostly focused on pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis. The most significant electrochemical approaches for GSH detection in multicomponent analyte samples and multicomponent matrices and for real-time in vivo GSH analysis are highlighted. The great variability in the electrochemical techniques, electrode approaches, and obtainable performance parameters, discussed in this review, brought new insights not only on current GSH and glutathione disulfide (GSSG) determinations, but, along with this, on the advances in electrochemical analysis from a more general point of view.
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- Michal Hanko
- Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Odbojárov 10, SK-832 32, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Radlinského 9, SK-812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Odbojárov 10, SK-832 32, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy, Odbojárov 10, SK-832 32, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Pharmacy, Toxicological and Antidoping Center, Odbojárov 10, SK-832 32, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Sun YF, Zhao LJ, Jiang TJ, Li SS, Yang M, Huang XJ. Sensitive and selective electrochemical detection of heavy metal ions using amino-functionalized carbon microspheres. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wang W, Zhao N, Geng Y, Cui SB, Hauser J, Decurtins S, Liu SX. A highly sensitive TTF-functionalised probe for the determination of physiological thiols and its application in tumor cells. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06455k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)-fused piazselenole as a novel redox-active and fluorescent probe for highly sensitive determination of physiological thiols is presented.
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- Wei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Sensor Analysis of Tumor Marker
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Qingdao University of Science and Technology
- Qingdao 266042, China
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- Key Laboratory of Sensor Analysis of Tumor Marker
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Qingdao University of Science and Technology
- Qingdao 266042, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Bern
- CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory of Sensor Analysis of Tumor Marker
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Qingdao University of Science and Technology
- Qingdao 266042, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Bern
- CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Bern
- CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Bern
- CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Simultaneous determination of dopamine, sertonin and ascorbic acid at a glassy carbon electrode modified with carbon-spheres. SENSORS 2013; 13:14029-40. [PMID: 24135993 PMCID: PMC3859106 DOI: 10.3390/s131014029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2013] [Revised: 10/06/2013] [Accepted: 10/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A novel glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified with carbon-spheres has been fabricated through a simple casting procedure. The modified GCE displays high selectivity and excellent electrochemical catalytic activities towards dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), and ascorbic acid (AA). In the co-existence system, the peak separations between AA and DA, DA and 5-HT, and AA and 5-HT are large up to 230, 180, and 410 mV, respectively. Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) has been employed to simultaneously detect DA, 5-HT, and AA, and the linear calibration curves for DA, 5-HT, and AA are obtained in the range of 20.0-150.0 μM, 40.0-750.0 μM and 300.0-2,000.0 μM with detection limits (S/N = 3) of 2.0 μM, 0.7 μM and 0.6 μM, respectively. The proposed electrode has been applied to detect DA, 5-HT, and AA in real samples using standard addition method with satisfactory results.
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