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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 2452-2458Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac2031145
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0809756]
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- Division Of Chemistry [0809756] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A new asymmetric, squarylium cyanine dye functionalized by boronic acid (SQ-BA) was designed and synthesized for on-capillary labeling of gram-positive bacteria to provide for high sensitivity detection by way of a modified form of capillary electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescence detection (CE-LIF). The CE-based separation employed a polymer-enhanced buffer with capillary transient isotachophoresis in a new hybrid method dubbed PectI. It was found that the addition of various monosaccharides to SQ-BA in a batch aqueous solution greatly enhanced the emission of the boronic acid functionalized dye by a factor of up to 18.3 at a long wavelength (lambda(ex) = 630 nm, lambda(em) = 660 nm) with a high affinity constant (K = similar to 10(2.80) M-1) superior to other sugar probes. Semiempirical quantum mechanics calculations suggest that the mechanism for this high enhancement may involve the dissociation of initially nonemissive dye associates (stabilized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond) upon complex formation with sugars. The fluorescence emission of SQ-BA was also significantly enhanced in the presence of a gram-positive bacterial spore, Bacillus globigii (Bg), which serves as a simulant of B. anthracis (or anthrax) and which possesses a peptidoglycan (sugar)-rich spore coat to provide ample sites for interaction with the dye. Several peaks were observed for a pure Bg sample even with polyethyleneoxide (PEO) present in the CE separation buffer, despite the polymer's previously demonstrated ability to focus microoorganisms to a single peak during migration. Likewise, several peaks were observed for a Bg sample when capillary transient isotachophoresis (ctITP) alone was employed. However, the new combination of these techniques as PectI dramatically and reproducibly focused the bacteria to a single peak with no staining procedure. Using PectI, the trace detection of Bg spores (corresponding to approximately three cells per injection) along with separation efficiency enough to separate Bg from another gram-positive bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (resolution, R-s = 6.09, and apparent plate number, N = 2.7-3.3 x 10(5)), were successfully achieved.
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