Open AccessA Colorimetric and Fluorescent Dual-Signal Sensor for Detecting Lipase Activity Based on Inner Filter Effect
Author(s) -
Ting Du,
Fu Zhang,
Ling Jiang,
Danbi Tian
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of the brazilian chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1678-4790
pISSN - 0103-5053
DOI - 10.21577/0103-5053.20220055
Subject(s) - lipase , detection limit , fluorescence , chemistry , colloidal gold , quantum dot , signal (programming language) , filter paper , filter (signal processing) , nanoparticle , materials science , chromatography , nanotechnology , biochemistry , enzyme , optics , computer science , physics , programming language , computer vision
We developed a colorimetric and fluorescence dual-signal sensor for detecting lipase activity based on methyl thioglycolate (MT) functionalized gold nanoparticles (MT-AuNPs) and CdS quantum dots (CdS QDs). It is the first time that was developed a dual-signal sensing strategy for lipase activity based on the inner-filter effect (IFE) between MT-AuNPs and CdS QDs. This probe system (MTAuNPs + CdS QDs) is sensitive and has selective response to the concentration of the lipase, and MT-AuNPs and CdS QDs played as transducer and fluorescer, respectively. The addition of lipase triggered the accumulation and change of color in CdS QDs and MT-AuNPs solution, it also makes CdS QDs’ fluorescence intensity significantly recover. The limit of detection (LOD) was as low as 0.039 μg mL-1 for colorimetric detection as well as 0.012 μg mL-1 for the fluorescence method. This method has been successfully used in the detection of commercial lipases. We believe it would open up a new path for the sensitive and high throughput lipase assay using nanobiosensor.