Direct electrochemistry of glucose oxidase and glucose biosensing on a hydroxyl fullerenes modified glassy carbon electrode

Biosens Bioelectron. 2014 Oct 15:60:30-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2014.04.005. Epub 2014 Apr 13.

Abstract

Direct electrochemistry of glucose oxidase (GOD) was achieved when GOD-hydroxyl fullerenes (HFs) nano-complex was immobilized on a glassy carbon (GC) electrode and protected with a chitosan (Chit) membrane. The ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrometry (UV-vis), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and circular dichroism spectropolarimeter (CD) methods were utilized for additional characterization of the GOD, GOD-HFs and Chit/GOD-HFs. Chit/HFs may preserve the secondary structure and catalytic properties of GOD. The cyclic voltammograms (CVs) of the modified GC electrode showed a pair of well-defined quasi-reversible redox peaks with the formal potential (E°') of 353 ± 2 mV versus Ag/AgCl at a scan rate of 0.05 V/s. The heterogeneous electron transfer constant (ks) was calculated to be 2.7 ± 0.2s(-1). The modified electrode response to glucose was linear in the concentrations ranging from 0.05 to 1.0mM, with a detection limit of 5 ± 1 μM. The apparent Michaelis-Menten constant (Km(app)) was 694 ± 8 μM. Thus, the modified electrode could be applied as a third generation biosensor for glucose with high sensitivity, selectivity and low detection limit.

Keywords: Direct electrochemistry; Glucose oxidase; Hydroxyl fullerenes; Nano-complex.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Carbon / chemistry*
  • Conductometry / instrumentation*
  • Electrodes*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Fullerenes / chemistry*
  • Glass / chemistry
  • Glucose / analysis*
  • Glucose / chemistry
  • Glucose Oxidase / chemistry*
  • Hydroxides

Substances

  • Fullerenes
  • Hydroxides
  • Carbon
  • hydroxide ion
  • Glucose Oxidase
  • Glucose