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  • Title: Determination of estrogen presence in water by SPR using estrogen receptor dimerization.
    Author: Habauzit D, Armengaud J, Roig B, Chopineau J.
    Journal: Anal Bioanal Chem; 2008 Feb; 390(3):873-83. PubMed ID: 18026938.
    Abstract:
    Estrogenic compounds are a class of pharmaceutical products harmful to animals and a cause of environmental damage. The biological activity of these compounds is high since they have been designed to act at low concentrations. Thus, even at the low concentrations found in the environment, they may produce deleterious effects on aquatic organisms as well as on humans, who might be contaminated in a number of ways (via drinking water or contaminated food, for example). We used the property of these compounds to bind a specific protein (estrogen receptor, ER) to develop a quantification method of these chemical entities. Estrogenic compound detection was performed using ER dimerization properties monitored by surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The ligand-activated ER dimer was detected by its interaction with a specific DNA consensus sequence estrogen response element. The concentration and the nature of the estrogenic compounds modified the SPR signal and were characteristic of the ligand-dependent homodimerization of ER. For 17beta-estradiol, dimerization of ER was experimentally determined at an ER to 17beta-estradiol ratio near 1:1. Estrogenic compounds (17beta-estradiol, estriol, estrone, ethynyl estradiol) activated the dimerization process at different concentration levels, while some others (tamoxiphen, resveratrol, genistein, bisphenol A) did not seem to have any effects on it. We demonstrated that this method allows the direct detection of 17beta-estradiol at concentrations above 1.4 microg/L (5 nM).
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