Biological Glucose Metabolism Regulated Peptide Self-Assembly as a Simple Visual Biosensor for Glucose Detection
✍ Scribed by Xiao-Ding Xu; Bing-Bing Lin; Jun Feng; Ya Wang; Si-Xue Cheng; Xian-Zheng Zhang; Ren-Xi Zhuo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 781 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A glucose oxidase (GOx)‐mediated glucose metabolism was in vitro mimicked and employed to regulate the self‐assembly of peptide‐based building blocks. In this new stimuli‐responsive self‐assembly system, two peptide‐based building blocks, respectively, having aspartic acid (gelator 1) and lysine (gelator 2) residues were designed and prepared. When adding glucose and GOx to the aqueous solution of gelator 1 or the self‐assembled fibrillar hydrogel of gelator 2 to construct glucose metabolism system, the metabolic product (gluconic acid) can trigger the protonation of the peptide molecules and induce the phase transitions of gelators 1 (sol‐gel) and 2 (gel‐sol). Because this glucose metabolism regulated peptide self‐assembly is built on the oxidation of glucose, it can be used as a simple visual biosensor for glucose detection.