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  • Title: Nano-silver-modified PQC/DNA biosensor for detecting E. coli in environmental water.
    Author: Sun H, Choy TS, Zhu DR, Yam WC, Fung YS.
    Journal: Biosens Bioelectron; 2009 Jan 01; 24(5):1405-10. PubMed ID: 19022649.
    Abstract:
    To meet the requirement of World Health Organization for zero tolerance of E. coli cell in 100mL drinking water, a new procedure based on photodeposition of nano-Ag at TiO(2)-coated piezoelectric quartz crystal (PQC) electrode was developed to fabricate a highly sensitive PQC/DNA biosensor. Enhancement of 3.3 times for binding of complementary DNA has been shown and attributed to the following effects arising from the nano-Ag coating. First, a large increase in the active surface area and packing density of neutravidin enhances the maximum neutravidin load to 1.8 times of a normal electrode. Second, the functional activity of neutravidin is enhanced by chemical interaction with nano-Ag to give rise to an increase in the binding ratio between neutravidin and biotinylated DNA probe from 1.00:1.76 to 1.00:3.01. Third, the stronger binding leads to a higher stability of the biotinylated DNA probes bound and increase in hybridization with the complementary DNA. Under the optimized conditions for flow analysis with online PCR product denaturing and hybridization, a detection limit of eight E. coli cells are obtained which require sampling at least 800mL water to detect a single E. coli cell in 100mL water.
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