Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 282-286Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2011.09.028
Keywords
Pyrophosphate; 2,6-Bis(2-benzimidazolyl)pyridine; Copper(II); Alarmone ppGpp; Fluorescence
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [90813019]
- Southwest University
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Pyrophosphate (PPi) is involved in lots of anabolism and bioenergetic processes in organisms and possesses important biological functions so that its detection is very significant. Here, we developed a selective fluorometric detection method for PPi with a copper(II) complex of 2,6-bis(2-benzimidazolyl)pyridine (bbimp), and then applied it to the detection of bacterial alarmone ppGpp.bbimp has the fluorescence emission at 395 nm, but the bbimp-Cu2+ complex is hardly fluorescent because the intrinsic fluorescence of bbimp is effectively quenched by Cu2+. With the addition of PPi, however, the fluorescence emission of bbimp turns on with a 2 nm red-shift, and has a linear relationship with PPi in the range of 3-90 mu mol/L. This method has good selectivity for PPi over other anions especially those phosphate-containing anions such as ATP, UTP, CTP, GTP, GDP, and PO43-. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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