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Algov I, Feiertag A, Alfonta L. Site-specifically wired and oriented glucose dehydrogenase fused to a minimal cytochrome with high glucose sensing sensitivity. Biosens Bioelectron 2021; 180:113117. [PMID: 33677358 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2021.113117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Direct electron transfer based enzymatic biosensors are highly efficient systems where electrons are transferred directly from the enzyme's electroactive site to the electrode. One way of achieving it is by 'wiring' the enzyme to the electrode surface. The wiring of enzymes to electrode surfaces can be reached in many different ways but controlling its orientation towards the electrode surface is still a challenge. In this study we have designed a Flavin-adenine dinucleotide dependent glucose dehydrogenase that is fused to a minimal cytochrome with a site-specifically incorporated unnatural amino acid to control its orientation towards the electrode. Several site-specifically wired mutant enzymes were compared to each other and to a non-specifically wired enzyme using atomic force microscopy and electrochemical techniques. The surface and activity analyses suggest that the site-specific wiring through different sites maintains the correct folding of the enzyme and have a positive effect on the apparent electrochemical electron transfer rate constant kETapp. Electrochemical analysis revealed an efficient electron transfer rate with more than 15 times higher imax and 10-fold higher sensitivity of the site-specifically wired enzyme variants compared to the non-specifically wired ones. This approach can be utilized to control the orientation of other redox enzymes on electrodes to allow a significant improvement of their electron transfer communication with electrodes.
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- Itay Algov
- Departments of Life Sciences, Chemistry and Ilse Katz institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PoBox 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- Departments of Life Sciences, Chemistry and Ilse Katz institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PoBox 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- Departments of Life Sciences, Chemistry and Ilse Katz institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PoBox 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
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Reginald SS, Lee H, Lee YS, Yasin M, Chang IS. Dissolved carbon monoxide concentration monitoring platform based on direct electrical connection of CO dehydrogenase with electrically accessible surface structure. Bioresour Technol 2020; 297:122436. [PMID: 31787515 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 11/09/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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CO dehydrogenase (CODH) employed in a dissolved CO biosensor development study harbors a solvent-exposed cofactor capable of DET to electrode. Here, CODH was immobilized on arrays of AuNPs of various dimensions to determine the effect of the size and shape of the electrode surface on the direct electrical connection between CODH and electrode surface. The results showed the degree of proximity between the CODH cofactor and electrode surface, which varied with AuNP size and caused significant changes to the electrical connection at the interface as well as to the substrate accessibility. Consequently, a high-density nanoscale SRS was fabricated on electrode to further facilitate direct electrical connection as well as to enable distribution of CODH into monolayer or near-monolayer for lowering the barrier of CO diffusion toward enzyme. The findings show the feasibility of controlling the direct electrical connection between CODH and the electrode as well as controlling the substrate accessibility.
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- Stacy Simai Reginald
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea; Bioenergy & Environmental Sustainable Membrane Technology (BEST) Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore Campus, Pakistan
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea.
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Okuda-Shimazaki J, Yoshida H, Sode K. FAD dependent glucose dehydrogenases - Discovery and engineering of representative glucose sensing enzymes. Bioelectrochemistry 2019; 132:107414. [PMID: 31838457 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2019.107414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The history of the development of glucose sensors goes hand-in-hand with the history of the discovery and the engineering of glucose-sensing enzymes. Glucose oxidase (GOx) has been used for glucose sensing since the development of the first electrochemical glucose sensor. The principle utilizing oxygen as the electron acceptor is designated as the first-generation electrochemical enzyme sensors. With increasing demand for hand-held and cost-effective devices for the "self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG)", second-generation electrochemical sensor strips employing electron mediators have become the most popular platform. To overcome the inherent drawback of GOx, namely, the use of oxygen as the electron acceptor, various glucose dehydrogenases (GDHs) have been utilized in second-generation principle-based sensors. Among the various enzymes employed in glucose sensors, GDHs harboring FAD as the redox cofactor, FADGDHs, especially those derived from fungi, fFADGDHs, are currently the most popular enzymes in the sensor strips of second-generation SMBG sensors. In addition, the third-generation principle, employing direct electron transfer (DET), is considered the most elegant approach and is ideal for use in electrochemical enzyme sensors. However, glucose oxidoreductases capable of DET are limited. One of the most prominent GDHs capable of DET is a bacteria-derived FADGDH complex (bFADGDH). bFADGDH has three distinct subunits; the FAD harboring the catalytic subunit, the small subunit, and the electron-transfer subunit, which makes bFADGDH capable of DET. In this review, we focused on the two representative glucose sensing enzymes, fFADGDHs and bFADGDHs, by presenting their discovery, sources, and protein and enzyme properties, and the current engineering strategies to improve their potential in sensor applications.
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- Junko Okuda-Shimazaki
- Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Life Science Research Center and Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan
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- Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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This paper summarizes several examples of enzyme immobilization and bioelectrocatalysis at carbon nanotubes (CNTs). CNTs offer substantial improvements on the overall performance of amperometric enzyme electrodes mainly due to their unique structural, mechanical and electronic properties such as metallic, semi-conducting and superconducting electron transport. Unfortunately, their water insolubility restrains the kick-off in some particular fields. However, the chemical functionalization of CNTs, non-covalent and covalent, attracted a remarkable interest over the past several decades boosting the development of electrochemical biosensors and enzymatic fuel cells (EFCs) based on two different types of communications: mediated electron transfer (MET)-type, where the use of redox mediators, small electroactive molecules (freely diffusing or bound to side chains of flexible redox polymers), which are able to shuttle the electrons between the enzyme active site and the electrode (second electron transfer generation system); direct electron transfer (DET)-type between the redox group of the enzyme and the electrode surface (third electron transfer generation system).
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- Paolo Bollella
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States
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Bollella P, Hibino Y, Conejo-Valverde P, Soto-Cruz J, Bergueiro J, Calderón M, Rojas-Carrillo O, Kano K, Gorton L. The influence of the shape of Au nanoparticles on the catalytic current of fructose dehydrogenase. Anal Bioanal Chem 2019; 411:7645-57. [PMID: 31286179 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-019-01944-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Graphite electrodes were modified with triangular (AuNTrs) or spherical (AuNPs) nanoparticles and further modified with fructose dehydrogenase (FDH). The present study reports the effect of the shape of these nanoparticles (NPs) on the catalytic current of immobilized FDH pointing out the different contributions on the mass transfer-limited and kinetically limited currents. The influence of the shape of the NPs on the mass transfer-limited and the kinetically limited current has been proved by using two different methods: a rotating disk electrode (RDE) and an electrode mounted in a wall jet flow-through electrochemical cell attached to a flow system. The advantages of using the wall jet flow system compared with the RDE system for kinetic investigations are as follows: no need to account for substrate consumption, especially in the case of desorption of enzyme, and studies of product-inhibited enzymes. The comparison reveals that virtually identical results can be obtained using either of the two techniques. The heterogeneous electron transfer (ET) rate constants (kS) were found to be 3.8 ± 0.3 s-1 and 0.9 ± 0.1 s-1, for triangular and spherical NPs, respectively. The improvement observed for the electrode modified with AuNTrs suggests a more effective enzyme-NP interaction, which can allocate a higher number of enzyme molecules on the electrode surface. Graphical abstract The shape of gold nanoparticles has a crucial effect on the catalytic current related to the oxidation of D-(-)-fructose to 5-keto-D-(-)-fructose occurring at the FDH-modified electrode surface. In particular, AuNTrs have a higher effect compared with the spherical one.
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Bollella P, Hibino Y, Kano K, Gorton L, Antiochia R. The influence of pH and divalent/monovalent cations on the internal electron transfer (IET), enzymatic activity, and structure of fructose dehydrogenase. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:3253-3264. [PMID: 29564502 PMCID: PMC5937911 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-0991-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We report on the influence of pH and monovalent/divalent cations on the catalytic current response, internal electron transfer (IET), and structure of fructose dehydrogenase (FDH) by using amperometry, spectrophotometry, and circular dichroism (CD). Amperometric measurements were performed on graphite electrodes, onto which FDH was adsorbed and the effect on the response current to fructose was investigated when varying the pH and the concentrations of divalent/monovalent cations in the contacting buffer. In the presence of 10 mM CaCl2, a current increase of up to ≈ 240% was observed, probably due to an intra-complexation reaction between Ca2+ and the aspartate/glutamate residues found at the interface between the dehydrogenase domain and the cytochrome domain of FDH. Contrary to CaCl2, addition of MgCl2 did not show any particular influence, whereas addition of monovalent cations (Na+ or K+) led to a slight linear increase in the maximum response current. To complement the amperometric investigations, spectrophotometric assays were carried out under homogeneous conditions in the presence of a 1-electron non-proton-acceptor, cytochrome c, or a 2-electron-proton acceptor, 2,6-dichloroindophenol (DCIP), respectively. In the case of cytochrome c, it was possible to observe a remarkable increase in the absorbance up to 200% when 10 mM CaCl2 was added. However, by further increasing the concentration of CaCl2 up to 50 mM and 100 mM, a decrease in the absorbance with a slight inhibition effect was observed for the highest CaCl2 concentration. Addition of MgCl2 or of the monovalent cations shows, surprisingly, no effect on the electron transfer to the electron acceptor. Contrary to the case of cytochrome c, with DCIP none of the cations tested seem to affect the rate of catalysis. In order to correlate the results obtained by amperometric and spectrophotometric measurements, CD experiments have been performed showing a great structural change of FDH when increasing the concentration CaCl2 up to 50 mM, at which the enzyme molecules start to agglomerate, hindering the substrate access to the active site probably due to a chelation reaction occurring at the enzyme surface with the glutamate/aspartate residues. Fructose dehydrogenase (FDH) consists of three subunits, but only two are involved in the electron transfer process: (I) 2e−/2H+ fructose oxidation, (II) internal electron transfer (IET), (III) direct electron transfer (DET) through 2 heme c; FDH activity either in solution or when immobilized onto an electrode surface is enhanced about 2.5-fold by adding 10 mM CaCl2 to the buffer solution, whereas MgCl2 had an “inhibition” effect. Moreover, the additions of KCl or NaCl led to a slight current increase ![]()
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- Paolo Bollella
- Department of Chemistry and Drug Technologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.,Department of Analytical Chemistry/Biochemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry/Biochemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Chemistry and Drug Technologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Sharma M, Varanasi JL, Jain P, Dureja P, Lal B, Dominguez-Benetton X, Pant D, Sarma PM. Influence of headspace composition on product diversity by sulphate reducing bacteria biocathode. Bioresour Technol 2014; 165:365-371. [PMID: 24726774 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Mixed culture of sulphate reducing bacteria named TERI-MS-003 was used for development of biocathode on activated carbon fabric fastened to stainless steel mesh for conversion of volatile fatty acids to reduced organic compounds under chronoamperometric conditions of -0.85V vs. Ag/AgCl (3.5M KCl). A range of chemicals were bioelectrosynthesized, however the gases present in headspace environment of the bioelectrochemical reactor governed the product profile. Succinate, ethanol, hydrogen, glycerol and propionate were observed to be the predominant products when the reactor was hermetically sealed. On the other hand, acetone, propionate, isopropanol, propanol, isobutyrate, isovalerate and heptanoate were the predominant products when the reactor was continuously sparged with nitrogen. This study highlights the importance of head space composition in order to manoeuvre the final product profile desired during a microbial electro-synthesis operation and the need for simultaneously developing effective separation and recovery strategies from an economical and practical standpoint.
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- Mohita Sharma
- TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India; TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India; Separations and Conversion Technologies, VITO-Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium
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- TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India
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- TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India; TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India
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- TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India
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- TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India
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- Separations and Conversion Technologies, VITO-Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium
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- Separations and Conversion Technologies, VITO-Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium
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- TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India; TERI, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 110003, India.
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