Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 238, Issue -, Pages 1258-1265Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.09.071
Keywords
Au nanoclusters; Photoluminescence; Bovine serum albumin; Glutathione; Nitrite
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 104-2113-M-002-008-MY3]
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Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and glutathione (GSH) have been used to prepare gold nanoclusters (BSA/GSH-Au NCs) with excitation/emission wavelengths of 330/650 nm from Au3+ at 70 degrees C for 30 min. In the preparation of BSA/GSH-Au NCs, BSA and GSH act mainly as capping and reducing agents, respectively. With the assistance of GSH, only 30 mu M BSA is required to prepare stable and bright BSA/GSH-Au NCs. In addition to BSA, small amounts of lysozyme, ovalbumin, and transferrin have also been used separately to prepare protein/GSH-Au NCs. The decreased order of the photoluminescence (PL) intensity of protein/GSH-Au NCs agrees with the decreased orders of size and number of tyrosine/cysteine of the four proteins. The PL of BSA/GSH-Au NCs is quenched by nitrite (NO2-) at pH 3.0, mainly due to the oxidation of BSA/GSH-Au NCs with nitrosyl ions (NO+). This approach allows detection of NO2- down to 0.3 M, with great selectivity and stability against salt (up to 500 mM NaCl). Practicality of this simple and sensitive approach has been validated by the analysis of pond water samples. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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