Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 87, Issue -, Pages 693-700Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.09.022
Keywords
Quantum dots; Dopamine; Mn-doped ZnS
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Funding
- Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (NSF) [1002410]
- PR NASA EPSCoR (NASA) [NNX13AB22A]
- Office Of The Director
- Office of Integrative Activities [1002410] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Dopamine (DA) is one of the most important catecholamine neurotransmitters of the human central nervous system, and is involved in many behavioral responses and brain functions. Below normal DA levels in biological fluids can lead to different neurodegenerative conditions. For excess DA levels, a failure in energy metabolism is indicated. In this study, a facile room-temperature phosphorescence sensor is developed to detect DA based on L-cysteine capped Mn doped ZnS quantum dots (L-cys ZnS:Mn QDs). The QDs display a prominent orange emission band peaking at similar to 598 nm, which is strongly quenched upon addition of DA in alkaline medium. The sensor exhibits a linear working range of similar to 0.15-3.00 mu M, and a limit of detection of similar to 7.80 nM. These results are explained in terms of a pH-dependent electron transfer process, in which the oxidized dopamine quinone functions as an efficient electron acceptor. The QDs-based sensor shows a high selectivity to DA over common interfering biomolecules (including some amino acids, ascorbic acid, chldride and glucose). The sensor has been successfully applied for the detection of DA in urine samples, yielding recoveries as high as 93%. Our findings indicate that our developed sensor exhibits high sensitivity and reproducibility to determine DA even in biological fluids where DA is at low levels, e.g., in the central nervous system, which is the usual clinical profile of a neurodegenerative disorder associated to the Parkinson's disease. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.orgfficenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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