A High-Fidelity Electrochemical Platform Based on Au-Se Interface for Biological Detection

Anal Chem. 2020 Apr 21;92(8):5855-5861. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05509. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

Abstract

Gold (Au) electrodes are one of the most ideal electrodes and are extensively used to construct electrochemical biological detection platforms. The electrode-molecule interface between the Au electrode and biomolecules is critical to the stability and efficiency of the detection platform. However, traditional Au-sulfur (Au-S) interfaces experience distortion due to high levels of glutathione (GSH) and other biological thiols in biological samples as well as a high charge barrier when electrons are injected into the biomolecule from the Au electrode. In view of the higher bonding energy of Au-selenium (Au-Se) bonds than those of Au-S bonds and the elevated Fermi energy of the Au electrodes when Au-Se bonds are formed instead of Au-S bonds at the interface between the electrodes and molecules, we establish a new type of electrochemical platform based on the Au-Se interface (Au-Se electrochemical platform) for high-fidelity biological detection. Compared with that of the electrochemical platform based on the Au-S interface (Au-S electrochemical platform), the Au-Se electrochemical platform shows a higher charge transfer rate and excellent stability in millimolar levels of GSH. The Au-Se electrochemical platform supplies an ideal solution for accurate biological detection and has great potential in biomedical detection applications.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques*
  • Electrochemical Techniques*
  • Glutathione / analysis*
  • Gold / chemistry*
  • Hep G2 Cells
  • Humans
  • Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 / analysis*
  • Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 / metabolism
  • Selenium / chemistry*
  • Sulfhydryl Compounds / analysis*
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Sulfhydryl Compounds
  • Gold
  • Matrix Metalloproteinase 2
  • Glutathione
  • Selenium