Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens

Disposable electrochemical biosensors with high sensitivity are very fit for point-of-care testing in clinical diagnosis. Herein, amino-functionalized, vertically ordered mesoporous silica films (NH2-VMSF) attached to an electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrode (p-SPCE) are prepar...

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Main Authors: Ke He, Hongxin Wang, Tao Luo, Fei Yan, Jing Guo
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-11-01
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author Ke He
Hongxin Wang
Tao Luo
Fei Yan
Jing Guo
Jing Guo
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Hongxin Wang
Tao Luo
Fei Yan
Jing Guo
Jing Guo
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description Disposable electrochemical biosensors with high sensitivity are very fit for point-of-care testing in clinical diagnosis. Herein, amino-functionalized, vertically ordered mesoporous silica films (NH2-VMSF) attached to an electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrode (p-SPCE) are prepared using a simple electrochemical method and then utilized to construct a gated electrochemical aptasensor for rapid and sensitive determination of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). After being treated with the electrochemical polarization procedure, p-SPCE has plentiful oxygen-containing groups and improved catalytic ability, which help promote the stability of NH2-VMSF on SPCE without the use of an adhesive layer and simultaneously generate a highly electroactive sensing interface. Owing to the numerous uniform and ultrasmall nanopores of NH2-VMSF, CEA-specific aptamer anchored on the external surface of NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE serves as the gatekeeper, allowing the specific recognition and binding of CEA and eventually impeding the ingress of electrochemical probes [Fe(CN)63−/4−] through the silica nanochannels. The declined electrochemical responses of Fe(CN)63−/4− can be used to quantitatively detect CEA, yielding a wide detection range (100 fg/mL to 100 ng/mL) and a low limit of detection (24 fg/mL). Moreover, the proposed NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE-based electrochemical aptasensor can be applied to detect the amount of CEA in spiked human serum samples, which extends the biological application of a disposable NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE sensor by modulating the biological recognition species.
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spelling doaj-art-2c8f495aad8c452c977ef08101194ee72024-11-11T04:29:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Chemistry2296-26462024-11-011210.3389/fchem.2024.14909401490940Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigensKe He0Hongxin Wang1Tao Luo2Fei Yan3Jing Guo4Jing Guo5Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, ChinaGuangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, ChinaGuangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, ChinaDepartment of Dermatology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, ChinaDisposable electrochemical biosensors with high sensitivity are very fit for point-of-care testing in clinical diagnosis. Herein, amino-functionalized, vertically ordered mesoporous silica films (NH2-VMSF) attached to an electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrode (p-SPCE) are prepared using a simple electrochemical method and then utilized to construct a gated electrochemical aptasensor for rapid and sensitive determination of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). After being treated with the electrochemical polarization procedure, p-SPCE has plentiful oxygen-containing groups and improved catalytic ability, which help promote the stability of NH2-VMSF on SPCE without the use of an adhesive layer and simultaneously generate a highly electroactive sensing interface. Owing to the numerous uniform and ultrasmall nanopores of NH2-VMSF, CEA-specific aptamer anchored on the external surface of NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE serves as the gatekeeper, allowing the specific recognition and binding of CEA and eventually impeding the ingress of electrochemical probes [Fe(CN)63−/4−] through the silica nanochannels. The declined electrochemical responses of Fe(CN)63−/4− can be used to quantitatively detect CEA, yielding a wide detection range (100 fg/mL to 100 ng/mL) and a low limit of detection (24 fg/mL). Moreover, the proposed NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE-based electrochemical aptasensor can be applied to detect the amount of CEA in spiked human serum samples, which extends the biological application of a disposable NH2-VMSF/p-SPCE sensor by modulating the biological recognition species.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2024.1490940/fullamino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica filmscreen-printed carbon electrodeelectrochemical polarizationcarcinoembryonic antigenelectrochemical aptasensor
spellingShingle Ke He
Hongxin Wang
Tao Luo
Fei Yan
Jing Guo
Jing Guo
Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
Frontiers in Chemistry
amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film
screen-printed carbon electrode
electrochemical polarization
carcinoembryonic antigen
electrochemical aptasensor
title Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
title_full Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
title_fullStr Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
title_full_unstemmed Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
title_short Amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen-printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
title_sort amino functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film on electrochemically polarized screen printed carbon electrodes for the construction of gated electrochemical aptasensors and sensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigens
topic amino-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica film
screen-printed carbon electrode
electrochemical polarization
carcinoembryonic antigen
electrochemical aptasensor
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2024.1490940/full
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