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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages 475-484Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.10069
Keywords
hydrogels; amperometry; glucose oxidase; glutamate oxidase; glucose; monosodium glutamate; interdigitated microsensor electrode arrays
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In this article, we describe the use of pH-responsive hydrogels as matrices for the immobilization of two enzymes, glucose oxidase (GOx) and glutamate oxidase (GlutOx). Spherical hydrogel beads were prepared by inverse suspension polymerization and the enzymes were immobilized by either physical entrapment or covalent immobilization within or on the hydrogel surface. Packed-bed bioreactors were prepared containing the bioactive hydrogels and these incorporated into flow injection (Fl) systems for the quantitation of glucose and monosodium glutamate (MSG) respectively. The Fl amperometric detector comprised a microfabricated Interdigitated array within a thin-layer flow cell. For the Fl manifold incorporating immobilized GOx, glucose response curves were found to be linear over the concentration range 1.8-280 my dL(-1) (0.1-15.5 mM) with a detection limit of 1.4 mg dL(-1) (0.08 mM). Up to 20 samples can be manually analyzed per hour, with the hydrogel-GOx bioreactor exhibiting good within-day (0-19%) precision. The optimized Fl manifold for MSG quantitation yielded a linear response range of up to 135 mg dL(-1) (8 mM) with a detection limit of 3.38 mg dL(-1) (0.2 mM) and a throughput of 30 samples h(-1). Analysis of commercially produced soup samples gave a within-day precision of 3.6%. Bioreactors containing these two physically entrapped enzymes retained > 60% of their initial activities after a storage period of up to 1 year. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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