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  • Title: Gold nanorod-catalyzed luminol chemiluminescence and its selective determination of glutathione in the cell extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Author: Lu C, Li Q, Chen S, Zhao L, Zheng Z.
    Journal: Talanta; 2011 Jul 15; 85(1):476-81. PubMed ID: 21645728.
    Abstract:
    In this study, gold nanorods were firstly found to exhibit a tremendously higher catalytic activity towards luminol chemiluminescence (CL) than spherical gold nanoparticles. More importantly, ultra-trace aminothiols can cause a great CL decrease in the gold nanorod-catalyzed luminol system by the formation of Au-S covalent bonds on the ends of gold nanorods. Aminothiols can occupy the active sites of gold nanorods, and further interrupt the generation of the active oxygen intermediates. Other biomolecules including 19 standard amino acids, alcohols, organic acids and saccharides have no effect on gold nanorod-catalyzed luminol CL signals. Moreover, in order to evaluate the applicability and reliability of the proposed method, it was applied to the determination of glutathione in the cell extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Good agreements were obtained for the determination of glutathione in the cell extracts of S. cerevisiae between the present approach and a standard Alloxan method. The recoveries of glutathione were found to fall in the range between 96 and 105%. The calibration curve for glutathione was found to be linear from 0.05 to 100 nM, and the detection limit (S/N=3) was 0.01 nM. The relative standard deviation (RSD) for five repeated measurements of 5.0 nM glutathione was 2.1%.
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