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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2011

Enzyme-polymers conjugated to quantum-dots for sensing applications.

Alexandra Mansur, Herman Mansur, Juan González

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandra MansurDepartment of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte/MG, 31.270-901, Brazil. aapiscitelli@uol.com.br
Herman Mansur
Juan González
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the present research, the concept of developing a novel system based on polymer-enzyme macromolecules was tested by coupling carboxylic acid functionalized poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA-COOH) to glucose oxidase (GOx) followed by the bioconjugation with CdS quantum-dots (QD). The resulting organic-inorganic nanohybrids were characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, Photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The spectroscopy results have clearly shown that the polymer-enzyme macromolecules (PVA-COOH/GOx) were synthesized by the proposed zero-length linker route. Moreover, they have performed as successful capping agents for the nucleation and constrained growth of CdS quantum-dots via aqueous colloidal chemistry. The TEM images associated with the optical absorption results have indicated the formation of CdS nanocrystals with estimated diameters of about 3.0 nm. The "blue-shift" in the visible absorption spectra and the PL values have provided strong evidence that the fluorescent CdS nanoparticles were produced in the quantum-size confinement regime. Finally, the hybrid system was biochemically assayed by injecting the glucose substrate and detecting the formation of peroxide with the enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Thus, the polymer-enzyme-QD hybrid has behaved as a nanostructured sensor for glucose detecting.

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Quantum DotsAspergillus nigerBiosensing TechniquesCadmium CompoundsCarboxylic AcidsGlucoseGlucose OxidaseLigandsLuminescent MeasurementsNanoparticlesParticle SizePolyvinyl AlcoholSelenium CompoundsSolutionsSpectrophotometry, UltravioletThermodynamicsCadmium Compoundscadmium selenideCarboxylic AcidsGlucoseGlucose OxidaseLigandsPolyvinyl AlcoholSelenium CompoundsSolutionscolloidsenzyme sensorfunctionalized polymerhybridsnanossensorquantum dots

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PMID22163736
PMCPMC3231291
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