A new ＂off-on＂ switch for sensitive and selective fluorescence detection of biothiols[glutathione（GSH）, cysteine（Cys） and homocysteine（Hcy）] was developed based on an anionic conjugated polyelectrolyte（CPE）,...A new ＂off-on＂ switch for sensitive and selective fluorescence detection of biothiols[glutathione（GSH）, cysteine（Cys） and homocysteine（Hcy）] was developed based on an anionic conjugated polyelectrolyte（CPE）, pyridyl-functionalized poly（phenylene ethynylene）（Pl）. The fluorescence of P1 can be significantly quenched by Ag＋ due to complexation-mediated interpolymer aggregation. Furthermore, biothiols can efficiently recover the fluorescence intensity of P1 as a result of the stronger binding between thiol group and Ag＋, which dissociates PI from the P1/Ag＋ complex and disrupts interpolymer aggregation. Under optimum conditions, a good linear relation- ship in a range of 100--4200 nmol/L is obtained for GSH with a detection limit of 80 nmol/L（S/N=3）. As a result of specific interaction between the thiol group and Ag＋, the proposed method shows a high selectivity for biothiols. In addition, the CPE-based fluorescence ＂off-on＂ switch has been used to quantitatively detect total biothiols in cell lysates.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China（No.20805014）, the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Pro- vincial Education Department, China（Nos. 11 C0809 and 12B077）, the Open Fund Project of Key Laboratory in Hunan University, China（No.201103） and the Aid Program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province, China.
文摘A new ＂off-on＂ switch for sensitive and selective fluorescence detection of biothiols[glutathione（GSH）, cysteine（Cys） and homocysteine（Hcy）] was developed based on an anionic conjugated polyelectrolyte（CPE）, pyridyl-functionalized poly（phenylene ethynylene）（Pl）. The fluorescence of P1 can be significantly quenched by Ag＋ due to complexation-mediated interpolymer aggregation. Furthermore, biothiols can efficiently recover the fluorescence intensity of P1 as a result of the stronger binding between thiol group and Ag＋, which dissociates PI from the P1/Ag＋ complex and disrupts interpolymer aggregation. Under optimum conditions, a good linear relation- ship in a range of 100--4200 nmol/L is obtained for GSH with a detection limit of 80 nmol/L（S/N=3）. As a result of specific interaction between the thiol group and Ag＋, the proposed method shows a high selectivity for biothiols. In addition, the CPE-based fluorescence ＂off-on＂ switch has been used to quantitatively detect total biothiols in cell lysates.
