Journal
SENSORS
Volume 18, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s18082679
Keywords
methylmercury; gold nanoparticles; enzyme mimic; chromogenic reaction
Funding
- State Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology, Bright Dairy Food Co. Ltd. [SKLDB2017-00]
- Science and Technology Innovation Committee of Shenzhen [CXZZ20140419150802007]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31371767]
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A new colorimetric detection of methylmercury (CH3Hg+) was developed, which was based on the surface deposition of Hg enhancing the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The AuNPs were functionalized with a specific DNA strand (H-T7) recognizing CH3Hg+, which was used to capture and separate CH3Hg+ by centrifugation. It was found that the CH3Hg+ reduction resulted in the deposition of Hg onto the surface of AuNPs. As a result, the catalytic activity of the AuNPs toward the chromogenic reaction of 3,3,5,5-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB)-H2O2 was remarkably enhanced. Under optimal conditions, a limit of detection of 5.0 nM was obtained for CH3Hg+ with a linear range of 10-200 nM. We demonstrated that the colorimetric method was fairly simple with a low cost and can be conveniently applied to CH3Hg+ detection in environmental samples.
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