Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 18, Issue 5-6, Pages 599-603Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-5663(03)00030-7
Keywords
photosynthetic reaction center; herbicide; triazine derivative; surface plasmon resonance; biosensor; affinity binding
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In this study, a direct detection system for herbicides inhibiting photosynthetic electron transfer was developed using the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) from the purple bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) apparatus. The heavy-subunit-histidine-tagged RCs (HHisRCs) were immobilized on an SPR sensor chip via nickel chelation chemistry as a binder for one of the triazine herbicides, atrazine. Immediately after injection of atrazine solution on the HHisRCs-immobilized chip, the SPR responses increased and reached plateaus within I min. The SPR signals were proportional to the sample concentrations of atrazine in the range 1-100 mug/ml. To evaluate the binding specificity to atrazine, chlorinated aromatic herbicides, DCMU and MCPP, were investigated using the HHisRCs-immobilized chip. An RC inhibitor, DCMU, could also be detected with a higher detection limit of 20 mug/ml than atrazine (I mug/ml). MCPP showed no signals because its inhibition mechanism against plants is different from that of atrazine and DCMU. These results indicated that the sensor chip immobilized RCs could be used for the specific detection of photosynthetic inhibitors. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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