Simple colorimetric bacterial detection and high-throughput drug screening based on a graphene-enzyme complex

Nanoscale. 2013 Jan 21;5(2):619-23. doi: 10.1039/c2nr32704j. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

Abstract

A simple, colorimetric, sensitive, cost-effective and high-throughput system based on a positively charged graphene oxide-enzyme complex was developed for bacterial detection and drug screening.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anions
  • Anti-Infective Agents / pharmacology
  • Bacteria / metabolism
  • Carbodiimides / chemistry
  • Colorimetry / methods*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / methods*
  • Electrochemistry / methods
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism
  • Fluorescent Dyes / pharmacology
  • Graphite / chemistry*
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays
  • Microscopy, Atomic Force / methods
  • Models, Chemical
  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Oxides / chemistry*
  • Spectrophotometry / methods
  • beta-Galactosidase / metabolism

Substances

  • Anions
  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Carbodiimides
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Oxides
  • Graphite
  • beta-Galactosidase