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Han Y, Kou M, Quan K, Wang J, Zhang H, Ihara H, Takafuji M, Qiu H. Enantioselective Glutamic Acid Discrimination and Nanobiological Imaging by Chiral Fluorescent Silicon Nanoparticles. Anal Chem 2024; 96:2173-2182. [PMID: 38261544 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
Abstract
Enantioselective discrimination of chiral molecules is essential in chemistry, biology, and medical science due to the configuration-dependent activities of enantiomers. Therefore, identifying a specific amino acid and distinguishing it from its enantiomer by using nanomaterials with outstanding performance are of great significance. Herein, blue- and green-emitting chiral silicon nanoparticles named bSiNPs and gSiNPs, respectively, with excellent water solubility, salt resistance, pH stability, photobleaching resistance, biocompatibility, and ability to promote soybean germination, were fabricated in a facile one-step method. Especially, chiral gSiNPs presented excellent fluorescence recognition ability for glutamic acid enantiomers within 1 min, and the enantiomeric recognition difference factor was as high as 9.0. The mechanism for enantiomeric fluorescence recognition was systematically explored by combining the fluorescence spectra with density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Presumably, the different Gibbs free energy and hydrogen-bonding interaction of the chiral recognition module with glutamic acid enantiomers mainly contributed to the difference in the fluorescence signals. Most noteworthy was the fact that the chiral gSiNPs can showcase not only the ability to recognize l- and d-glutamic acids in living cells but also the test strips fabricated by soaking gSiNPs can be applied for d-glutamic acid visual detection. As a result, this study provided insights into the design of multifunctional chiral sensing nanoplatforms for enantiomeric detection and other applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yangxia Han
- CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources and Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources and Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources and Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources and Key Laboratory for Natural Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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