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ACS SENSORS
卷 6, 期 1, 页码 27-34出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01178
关键词
bacteria; fungi; rapid test; fluorescence; smartphone; biofouling
资金
- Focus Area Analytical Sciences (BAM, Project OIL)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [CL 761/1-1]
The study introduces a rapid test method for detecting microbial genomic DNA in aqueous fuel extracts, utilizing test strips coated with fluorescent molecular beacons and a smartphone detection system. This method allows for on-site monitoring of microbial contamination in fuel in a rapid and simple manner, with the ability to detect DNA extracts from bacteria and fungi.
Microbial contamination of fuels by fungi and bacteria presents risks of corrosion and fuel system fouling. In this work, a rapid test for the determination of microbial genomic DNA from aqueous fuel extracts is presented. It combines test strips coated with polystyrene core/mesoporous silica shell particles, to the surface of which modified fluorescent molecular beacons are covalently grafted, with a smartphone detection system. In the hairpin loop, the beacons incorporate a target sequence highly conserved in all bacteria, corresponding to a fragment of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, which is also present to a significant extent in the 18S rRNA gene of fungi, allowing for broadband microbial detection. In the developed assay, the presence of genomic DNA extracts from bacteria and fungi down to ca. 20-50 mu g L-1 induced a distinct fluorescence response. The optical read-out was adapted for on-site monitoring by combining a 3D-printed case with a conventional smartphone, taking advantage of the sensitivity of contemporary complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) detectors. Such an embedded assembly allowed to detect microbial genomic DNA in aqueous extracts down to ca. 0.2-0.7 mg L-1 and presents an important step toward the on-site uncovering of fuel contamination in a rapid and simple fashion.
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