The Au-Pt alloy nanoparticles（Au-PtNPs） were electrochemically deposited on the surface of polyaniline nanotube（nanoPAN） and chitosan（CS） modified glassy carbon electrode（GCE）. The electrochemical behavior of lincomycin at Au-PtNPs/nanoPAN/CS modified GCE was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, linear sweep voltammetry and chronocoulometry. Cyclic voltammetric experiments show that lincomycin at the nanocomposite membrane modified electrode exhibited a pair of quasi-reversible redox peaks in pH=6.0 PBS. The membrane could accelerate the electron transfer of lincomycin on the electrode and significantly enhance the peak current. In a range of 3.0-100.0 mg/L, the reductive peak current of lincomycin at 0.42 V was linearly related to its concentration and the linear regression equation was ip,c=0.2703ρ-0.0042（ip, c： μA; ρ： mg/L; r=0.998, n=7） with a detection limit of 1.0 mg/L（S/N =3）. Compared with other methods, this method exhibited many advantages such as high sensitivity, selectivity, wide linear range and low detection limit. The method was used to determine the content of lincomycin in injections commercially available with satisfactory results. Some electrochemical parameters involved in the redox reaction of lincomycin, such as parameter of kinetic ha, standard rate constant ks and the number of H^＋, were also calculated.
Gold nanoparticles (nano Au)/titanium dioxide (TiO2) hollow microsphere membranes were prepared on the carbon paste electrode (CPE) for enhancing the sensitivity of DNA hybridization detection. The immobilization of nano Au and TiO2 microsphere was investigated with cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The hybridization events were monitored with EIS us-ing [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- as indicator. The sequence-specific DNA of the 35S promoter from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV35S) gene was detected with this DNA electrochemical sensor. The dynamic detection range was from 1.0×10-12 to 1.0×10-8 mol/L DNA and a detection limit of 2.3×10-13 mol/L could be ob-tained. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the terminator of nopaline synthase (NOS) gene from the real sample of a kind of transgenic soybean was also satisfactorily detected.
ZHANG YongChun, YANG Tao, ZHOU Na, ZHANG Wei & JIAO Kui College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
The interaction of bromothymol blue（BB） with human serum albumin（HSA） was studied by electrochemical techniques and a sensitive method for proteins assay was developed. When BB interacted with HSA, the voltammetric peak current value of BB decreased linearly with the concentration of HSA in a range of 1.0--40.0 mg/L, and the peak potential shifted negatively. Based on the results, a sensitive assay method for proteins, such as HSA, bovine serum albumin（BSA）, and egg albumin etc. was established. This method was further applied to determining the HSA in healthy human blood samples, and the results are not significantly different from those obtained by the classic Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 spectrophotometic method. The detecting conditions of this method were optimized and the interaction mechanism was discussed. The results show that the electrochemical parameters（formal potential E^0, standard rate constant of the electrode reaction ks, parameter of kinetic nα） of BB have no obvious changes before and after the interaction, which indicate that BB can interact with HSA, forming an electrochemical non-active complex. The equilibrium constant（βs） and the binding ratio（m） for this complex were calculated. The m is 4 and βs is 1.41 × 10^19. This method is fast, simple, highly sensitive, and has good selectivity, which can be used in clinical measurements.
A new approach for a simple electrochemical detection of PAT gene fragment is described. Poly(2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid) (PDC) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was prepared by potential scan electropolymerization in an aqueous solution. Mg2+ ions were incorporated by immer-sion of the modified electrode in 0.5 mol/L aqueous solution of MgCl2 to complete the preparation of a generic "activated" electrode ready for binding the probe DNA. The ssDNA was linked to the conduct-ing polymer by forming a bidentate complex between the carboxyl groups on the polymer and the phosphate groups of DNA via Mg2+. DNA immobilization and hybridization were characterized with dif-ferential pulse voltammetry (DPV) by using methylene blue (MB) as indicator and electrochemical im-pedance spectroscopy (EIS). The EIS was of higher sensitivity for DNA detection as compared with voltammetric methods in our strategy. The electron transfer resistance (Ret) of the electrode surface in EIS in [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- solution increased after the immobilization of the DNA probe on the Mg/PDC/GCE electrode. The hybridization of the DNA probe with complementary DNA (cDNA) made Ret increase further. The difference between the Ret at ssDNA/Mg/PDC/GCE and that at hybridization DNA modified electrode (dsDNA/Mg/PDC/GCE) was applied to determine the specific sequence related to the target PAT gene with the dynamic range comprised between 1.0 × 10-9 and 1.0 × 10_5 mol/L. A detection limit of 3.4 × 10-10 mol/L of oligonucleotides can be estimated.
