MIL-101(CuFe) Nanozymes with Excellent Peroxidase-like Activity for Simple, Accurate, and Visual Naked-Eye Detection of SARS-CoV-2

Anal Chem. 2023 Jan 17;95(2):1731-1738. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c05043. Epub 2022 Dec 28.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to every corner of the world and seriously affected our health and daily activities in the past three years; thereby, it is still urgent to develop various simple, quick, and accurate methods for early detection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. Nanozymes, a kind of nanomaterial with intrinsic enzyme-mimicking activity, have emerged as a suitable alternative for both therapy and diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. Here, ultrasensitive and ultrafast MIL-101(CuFe)-CD147 biosensors are established for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 by a simple colorimetric method. A MIL-101(CuFe) metal-organic framework has excellent peroxidase-like activity due to the synergistic effect of Fe and Cu atoms. In addition, the MIL-101(CuFe)-CD147 biosensor shows great potential to detect the various variants of SARS-CoV-2 due to the universal receptor of CD147. The enzyme-based biosensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 achieves a very low limit of detection (about 3 PFU/mL) within 30 min. Therefore, the present method provides a new generation of an alternative approach for highly sensitive and visual diagnosis of COVID-19.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques* / methods
  • COVID-19* / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks*
  • Peroxidases
  • SARS-CoV-2

Substances

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • MIL-101
  • Peroxidases