期刊
BIOSENSORS-BASEL
卷 10, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bios10120207
关键词
toxic algae; biosensors; barcodes; early warning system
资金
- European Union [778,069 EMERTOX]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [PID2019-103899RB-I00]
- Comunidad de Madrid TRANSNANOAVANSENS-CM Program [S2018/NMT-4349]
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are more frequent as climate changes and tropical toxic species move northward, especially along the Iberian Peninsula, a rich aquaculture area. Monitoring programs, detecting the presence of toxic algae before they bloom, are of paramount importance to protect ecosystems, aquaculture, human health and local economies. Rapid, reliable species identification methods using molecular barcodes coupled to biosensor detection tools have received increasing attention as an alternative to the legally required but impractical microscopic counting-based techniques. Our electrochemical detection system has improved, moving from conventional sandwich hybridization protocols using different redox mediators and signal probes with different labels to a novel strategy involving the recognition of RNA heteroduplexes by antibodies further labelled with bacterial antibody binding proteins conjugated with multiple enzyme molecules. Each change has increased sensitivity. A 150-fold signal increase has been produced with our newest protocol using magnetic microbeads (MBs) and amperometric detection at screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCEs) to detect the target RNA of toxic species. We can detect as few as 10 cells L-1 for some species by using a fast (similar to 2 h), simple (PCR-free) and cheap methodology (similar to 2 EUR/determination) that will allow this methodology to be integrated into easy-to-use portable systems.
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