Numerous biological or chemical substances have posed a serious threat to human beings and the demand for decentralized, point-of-care (POC) diagnostic systems has accordingly increased. Among many POC devices that are commercially available on the market, a personal glucose meter (PGM) with high portability, low cost, simple operation, and reliable quantitative ability has been regarded as one of the most successful. Recently, we developed a label-free and washing-free method for biomolecular detection using a personal glucose meter (PGM). ATP was selected as a model target, and cascade enzymatic reactions promoted by hexokinase and pyruvate kinase were adopted to link the amount of ATP to glucose that is detectable by a hand-held PGM. In principle, the presence of target ATP enables hexokinase to catalyze the conversion of glucose to glucose 6-phosphate, and thus the amount of glucose is decreased in proportion to the amount of ATP. The regenerated ATP from ADP is again supplemented to catalyze multiple rounds of cascade enzymatic reactions, leading to signal amplification. As a result, the change of glucose amount that is dependent to ATP amount is simply measured by a hand-held PGM. By employing this strategy, we successfully detected various targets containing nucleic acids, proteins, enzymes activity, small molecules with high sensitivity and selectivity even in real samples. Importantly, the developed system does not require expensive modification and washing steps but is conveniently operated with a commercially available PGM, which would pave the way for the development of a simple and cost-effective sensing platform.
저자
Jun Ki Ahn [ Material & Component Convergence R&D Department, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Ansan, Korea ]
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본 학회는 화학, 생화학, 분자생물학, 미생물학, 식품공학, 의학, 약학, 유전공학 및 생물공학, 환경 및 기타 공업 등 전 분야의 탄수화물관련 이론과 기술을 연구 발전시키고 산학협동을 통해 이를 보급하여 국내 관련 산업의 발전 및 국민생활의 과학화에 기여하고자 하며, 이러한 목표와 비젼의 실현을 위해 회원들이 적극적인 참여와 활동을 전개하고자 한다.