The Marriage of Protein and Lanthanide: Unveiling a Time-Resolved Fluorescence Sensor Array Regulated by pH toward High-Throughput Assay of Metal Ions in Biofluids
- 1 August 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 91 (17), 11170-11177
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01879
Abstract
A protein/lanthanide complex (BSA/Tb3+)-based sensor array in two different pH buffers has been designed for high-throughput recognition and time-resolved fluorescence (TRF) detection of metal ions in biofluids. BSA, which acted as an antenna ligand, can sensitize the fluorescence of Tb3+ (i.e., antenna effect), while the presence of metal ions would lead to the corresponding conformational change of BSA for altering the antenna effect accompanied by a substantial TRF performance of Tb3+. This principle has also been fully proved by both experimental characterizations and coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) studies. By using Tris-HCl buffer with different pHs (at 7.4 and 8.5), 17 metal ions have been well-distinguished by using our proposed BSA/Tb3+ sensor array. Moreover, the sensor array has the potential to discriminate different concentrations of the same metal ions and a mixture of metal ions. Remarkably, the detection of metal ions in biofluids can be realized by utilizing the presented sensor array, verifying its practical applications. The platform avoids the synthesis of multiplex sensing receptors, providing a new method for the construction of convenient and feasible lanthanide complex-based TRF sensing arrays.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (19411971700, 19ZR1473300, 18DZ1112700)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21635003, 21775044, 21675053)
- Guangdong Province (2016B020238003)
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