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ArticleBiosensors2017

Label-Free Biosensor Detection of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Using Engineered Estrogen Receptors.

Rita La Spina, Valentina E V Ferrero, Venera Aiello, Mattia Pedotti, Luca Varani, Teresa Lettieri, Luigi Calzolai, Willem Haasnoot, Pascal Colpo

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Article in Biosensors, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rita La SpinaEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Health Consumer and Reference Materials, 21027 Ispra, Italy. Rita.LA-SPINA@ec.europa.eu.
Valentina E V FerreroEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, 21027 Ispra, Italy. valentina.ferrero81@gmail.com.
Venera AielloEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Health Consumer and Reference Materials, 21027 Ispra, Italy. vaiello79@gmail.com.
Mattia PedottiInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. mattia.pedotti@irb.usi.ch.
Luca VaraniInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. luca.varani@irb.usi.ch.
Teresa LettieriEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, 21027 Ispra, Italy. teresa.lettieri@ec.europa.eu.
Luigi CalzolaiEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Health Consumer and Reference Materials, 21027 Ispra, Italy. luigi.calzolai@ec.europa.eu.
Willem HaasnootAuthenticity & Bioassays, RIKILT Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University, 6708 WB Wageningen, The Netherlands. willem.haasnoot@wur.nl.
Pascal ColpoEuropean Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate Health Consumer and Reference Materials, 21027 Ispra, Italy. pascal.colpo@ec.europa.eu.
Joint Research Centre · ITUniversità della Svizzera italiana · CHWageningen University & Research · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) are chemical substances shown to interfere with endogenous hormones affecting the endocrine, immune and nervous systems of mammals. EDCs are the causative agents of diseases including reproductive disorders and cancers. This highlights the urgency to develop fast and sensitive methods to detect EDCs, which are detrimental even at very low concentrations. In this work, we propose a label-free surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor method to detect specific EDCs (17 β-estradiol (E2), ethinyl-estradiol, 4-nonylphenol, tamoxifen) through their binding to estrogen receptor alpha (ERα). We show that the use of rationally designed ERα (as bio-recognition element) in combination with conformation-sensitive peptides (as amplification agent, resulting in increased responses) enables the detection of low parts per billion (ppb) levels of E2. As a proof of concept, this bioassay was used to detect E2 in (spiked) real water samples from fish farms, rivers and the sea at low ppb levels after concentration by solid phase extraction. In addition, the present SPR assay that combines a conformation-sensitive peptide with an array of ERα mutants is very promising for the assessment of the risk of potential estrogenic activity for chemical substances.

Indexed as

Protein EngineeringEndocrine DisruptorsPeptidesReceptors, EstrogenSurface Plasmon ResonanceEndocrine DisruptorsPeptidesReceptors, Estrogen17β-estradiolamplificationestrogen receptorlabel-free assaysurface plasmon resonancewater

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PMID29271936
PMCPMC5872049
OpenAlexW2776273761

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