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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 74, Issue 1, Pages 140-148Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac010596o
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The preparation and characterization of an amperometric 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) biosensor based on the surface immobilization of a maltose binding protein (MBP) nitroreductase (NR) fusion (MBP-NR) onto an electrode modified with an electropolymerized film of N-(3-pyrrol-1-ylpropyl)-4,4'-bipyridine (PPB) are described. The MBP domain of MBP-NR exhibits a high and specific affinity toward electropolymerized films of PPB with the immobilized enzyme retaining virtually all of its enzymatic activity. Under similar conditions, the wild-type NR enzyme (i.e., without the MBP domain) loses most of its enzymatic activity. The kinetics of the catalytic reaction between the biosensor and TNT and 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) were characterized using rotated disk electrode and cyclic voltammetry techniques, and values of 1.4 x 10(4) and 7.1 x 10(4) M-1 s(-1) were obtained for TNT and DNT, respectively. The apparent Michaelis - Menten constants (K-M) for MBP-NR in solution and on the surface, using TNT as substrate, were determined to be 27 and 95 muM, respectively. The corresponding value for wild-type NR in solution containing TNT was 78 muM, which is very close to the value obtained for MBP-NR on the surface. The limits of detection for both TNT and DNT were estimated to be 2 muM, and the sensitivities were determined to be 205 and 222 nA/muM, respectively.
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