• 文献标题:   Ultratrace antibiotic sensing using aptamer/graphene-based field-effect transistors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN XY, LIU Y, FANG X, LI Z, PU HH, CHANG JB, CHEN JH, MAO S
  • 作者关键词:   antibiotic, aptamer, fieldeffect transistor, microfluidic chip, debye length
  • 出版物名称:   BIOSENSORS BIOELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   0956-5663 EI 1873-4235
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tongji Univ
  • 被引频次:   22
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.bios.2018.11.034
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Antibiotic residue, as emerging pollution resulting from antibiotic abuse, poses a serious threat on ecosystem and human health. Conventional methods for antibiotic detection, e.g., liquid/gas chromatography, are based on complicated instruments and time-consuming; therefore, efforts have been made to realize in situ and real-time monitoring of antibiotics. Here, a miniaturized and integratable electronic antibiotic sensor based on field-effect transistor (FET) is reported. The reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheet is used as the channel material and the aptamer RNA for tobramycin is modified onto rGO as the probe. A novel sensor design with 6-mercapto-lhexanol (MCH)/1-pyrenebutanol (PBA) blocking layer (BL) for structure optimization is applied to enhance the sensor reliability and specificity. This rGO/aptamer/BL sensor shows an ultra -sensitivity to tobramycin with a lower detection limit of 0.3 nM and a quick response within 5 s, as well as a high specificity over other antibiotics such as kanamycin, streptomycin, ciprofloxacin, and tetracycline. The sensing mechanism based on the deformation of the charged aptamer probe is proposed via an in-depth analysis of the interactions between aptamer, tobramycin and rGO. In addition, sensing test performed under controlled microfluidic flow conditions demonstrates a great potential of the sensors in practical applications.