Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1662, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462695
Keywords
Dual-template; Molecularly imprinted polymer; Macromolecular crowding; Ofloxacin; Naproxen; Molecular dynamics simulation
Funding
- National Natural Science Founda-tion of China [21775109]
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This study demonstrated that molecular crowding is a promising method to enhance the affinity of dual-template imprinted polymers, showing significant improvement in imprinting efficiency.
Multi-template imprinting is one of the challenge for molecular imprinting since the selectivity and binding affinity for each analyte decrease significantly compared with the corresponding molecularly imprinting polymers (MIPs) against single template. In this work, molecular crowding effect was tried to remedy the problem of imprinting reduction caused by the competition of two templates. Methacrylic acid (ACR) was used as functional monomer, ethylene dimethacrylate (EDMA) as crosslinker, and polystyrene (PS) as macromolecular crowding agent. With levofloxacin ( S-OFX) as the first template, a number of compounds with varied chemical structure were chosen as the second template to investigate the imprinting effect of dual-template. When S-OFX and naproxen ( S-NAP) was used as the dual-template, the imprinting factor (IF) of the resulting MIP for S-OFX was 20.1 and IF for S-NAP was 10.9. In contrast, for the single-template MIPs, IF for S-OFX was 22.4, and IF for S-NAP was 11.9. As a comparison, the IF of the DT-MIP prepared in absence of PS was only 2.3 for S-OFX and 1.0 for S-NAP. To analyze recognition mechanism of the molecular crowding-based imprinting system, molecular dynamics simulations to the chain structure of PS and binding modes between template and functional monomers was conducted by NAMD software. All the results displayed that molecular crowding is a promising method to improve the affinity of the dual-template imprinted polymer. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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