Electrochemical Quantification of Escherichia coli with DNA Nanostructure

Marcella Giovanni, Magdiel Inggrid Setyawati, Chor Yong Tay, Hang Qian, Win Sen Kuan*, David Tai Leong

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Abstract

Escherichia coli is an indicator of fecal contamination in recreational water and some strains are responsible for serious food poisoning in humans. Therefore, having a rapid, sensitive, selective, and simple E. coli detection is important. In this study, DNA nanopyramids anchor is utilized for immunological detection of E. coli lipopolysaccharides, lysate, and whole bacteria. By measuring the E. coli amount electrochemically, detection limits of 0.20 ng mL-1E. coli lipopolysaccharides and 1.20 CFU mL-1 equivalent of lysed E. coli bacteria are obtained. Our method confers selectivity to detect E. coli in the presence of various other macromolecules. Therefore, our system can be developed to test the E. coli content in real water samples.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3840-3846
Number of pages7
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume25
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 1 2015
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • General Chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Electrochemistry

Keywords

  • biosensor
  • DNA nanostructures
  • Escherichia coli

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