Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 354, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2021.131107
Keywords
Lactoferrin bio-macromolecule; Impedimetric sensor; Capacitive analysis; Self-assembled monolayer; EQCM
Funding
- Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST)
- Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC)
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In this study, a novel approach for determining lactoferrin was developed using a mixed monolayer of MOP/3-sulfanylpropan-1-ol as a biosensing platform. Various techniques were employed to track the platform fabrication process and evaluate its efficiency for lactoferrin determination. The results showed that the developed platform exhibited good selectivity and sensitivity towards lactoferrin detection, and was successfully applied for determining lactoferrin in colostrum samples.
The complex structure of lactoferrin as a large bio-macromolecule with about 700 amino acids makes it a difficult target for electrochemical determination. Here, inspired by the inhibitory function of (S)-1-(3-Mercapto-2methyl-1-oxopropyl)-L-proline (MOP) for deactivation of angiotensin-converting enzyme, a new approach for the determination of lactoferrin was developed by exploiting a mixed monolayer of MOP/3-sulfanylpropan-1-ol (MOP-SP) as a novel lactoferrin biosensing platform (LBP). Electrochemical techniques, FE-SEM, AFM, UV-Vis, Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) were used for tracking the LBP fabrication process and evaluating the efficiency of the LBP responses for the LF determination. Analytical performance of the fabricated LBP toward the selective and sensitive LF detection was investigated using the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique. Using EIS, the linear range and detection limit for LF determination were obtained as 125 nM to 3.250 mu M and 65.2 nM, respectively. Also, capacitive analysis as a new, efficient and sensitive technique in protein detection was performed for reducing the detection time with the linear range and detection limit of 500 nM to 3.250 mu M and 375 nM, respectively. Finally, the fabricated LBP was successfully applied for LF determination in the colostrum samples.
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