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ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 46, Pages 30989-30997Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03434
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- European Commission through the project PROTECT [H2020-NMBP-PILOT720851]
- European Commission through the project SINCRO [RTC2019-007060-2]
- MINECO/FEDER [CTQ2015-65439-R, PID2019-106171RB-I00]
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Microbial detection is essential for controlling and preventing infectious diseases globally. Techniques based on metabolic indicators are gaining interest for their ability to differentiate between live and dead bacteria. This study investigates the potential use of Prussian blue as a metabolic indicator in bacterial sensing.
Microbial detection is crucial for the control and prevention of infectious diseases, being one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Among the techniques developed for bacterial detection, those based on metabolic indicators are progressively gaining interest due to their simplicity, adaptability, and, most importantly, their capacity to differentiate between live and dead bacteria. Prussian blue (PB) may act as a metabolic indicator, being reduced by bacterial metabolism, producing a visible color change from blue to colorless. This molecule can be present in two main forms, namely, the soluble and the insoluble, having different properties and structures. In the current work, the bacterial-sensing capacity of soluble and insoluble PB will be tested and compared both in suspensions as PB-NPs and after deposition on transparent indium tin oxidepoly(ethylene terephthalate) (ITO-PET) electrodes. In the presence of live bacteria, PB-NPs are metabolized and completely reduced to the Prussian white state in less than 10 h for soluble and insoluble forms. However, when electrodeposited on ITO-PET substrates, less than 1 h of incubation with bacteria is required for both forms, although the soluble one presents faster metabolic reduction kinetics. This study paves the way to the use of Prussian blue as a metabolic indicator for the early detection of bacterial infection in fields like microbial diagnostics, surface sterilization, food and beverage contamination, and environmental pollution, among others.
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