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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 184, Issue 7, Pages 1933-1940Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-017-2204-5
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Zeolitic imidazolate framework; Hydrogen peroxide; Glucose; Hydroxy radical; Reactive oxygen species; Biomarker Xiaolong Zhang and Yongyi Zeng are contributed equally to this work
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The authors describe a fluorescence immunoassay for galectin-4, a candidate biomarker for various cancers. Glucose oxidase was encapsulated into a zeolitic imidazolate framework to give a composite (GOx/ZIF-8 composite) that acts as a signal-transduction tag via a biomimetic mineralization process. After modification of the composite with streptavidin, it binds biotinylated antibody against galectin-4. In the immunoassay, the response to galectin-4 results from the enzymatic oxidation of glucose. This reaction produces hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) that reacts with iron(II) ions to generate hydroxy radical (aEuro cent OH), which leads to the quenching of the fluorescence of gold nanoclusters (AuNCs). Accordingly, the fluorescence quenching of AuNCs depends on the concentration of target galectin-4. The GOx/ZIF-8 composite has a high loading capacity for GOx at uncompromised enzymatic activity. The fluorescence of AuNCs is sensitively quenched by aEuro cent OH radicals. Galectin-4 can be detected by this method in concentrations as low as 10 pg center dot mL(-1). It is expected that this kind of enzyme/MOF composite-based immunoassay has a wide scope in that it may be adapted to other low-abundance proteins and biomarkers.
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