Nanochannel sensor for sensitive and selective adamantanamine detection based on host-guest competition

Zhipeng Xie; Mingfeng Yang; Le Luo; Yiping Lv; Kangjin Song; Simin Liu; Daqi Chen; Jiahai Wang

doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121213

Nanochannel sensor for sensitive and selective adamantanamine detection based on host-guest competition

Talanta. 2020 Nov 1:219:121213. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121213. Epub 2020 May 30.

Authors

Zhipeng Xie¹, Mingfeng Yang², Le Luo², Yiping Lv², Kangjin Song², Simin Liu³, Daqi Chen⁴, Jiahai Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China.
² School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
³ The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, China.
⁴ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. Electronic address: daqichen@gzhu.edu.cn.
⁵ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. Electronic address: jiahaiwang@gzhu.edu.cn.

PMID: 32887115
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121213

Abstract

The abuse of adamantanamine (ADA) and its derivatives as veterinary drugs in the poultry industry could cause severe health problems for humans. It is of great need to develop a rapid, cheap and ultrasensitive method for ADA detection. In this study, a sensitive conical nanochannel sensor was established for the rapid quantitative detection of ADA with the distinctive design of the host-guest competition. The sensor was constructed by functionalizing the nanochannel surface with p-toluidine and was then assembled with Cucurbit [7]uril (CB [7]). When ADA is added, it could occupy the cavity of CB [7] due to the host-guest competition and makes CB [7] to release from the CB [7]-p-toluidine complex, resulting in a distinct change of hydrophobicity of the nanochannel, which could be determined by the ionic current. Under the optimal conditions, the strategy permitted sensitive detection of ADA in a linear range of 10-1000 nM. The nanochannel based ADA sensing platform showed both high sensitivity and excellent reproducibility and the limit of detection was 4.54 nM. For the first time, the rapid and sensitive recognition of an illegal medicine was realized based on the host-guest competition method with the nanochannel system and the principle and feasibility of this method were described at length. This strategy provides a simple, reliable, and effective way to apply host-guest system in the development of nanochannel sensor for small-molecule drug detection.

Keywords: Adamantanamine detection; Cucurbit[7]uril; Host-guest competition; Nanochannel sensor.