College of Life Sciences, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao Agricultural University, 700 Changcheng Road, Qingdao, Shandong, 266109, China.
College of Life Sciences, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao Agricultural University, 700 Changcheng Road, Qingdao, Shandong, 266109, China.
Biosens Bioelectron. 2020 Jan 15;148:111825. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111825. Epub 2019 Oct 31.
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) has been widely applied on the enzyme inhibition-based detection of organophosphate pesticides (OPs). To improve the sensitivity of fluorometric OPs assay, great efforts were made to change the fluorometric probes or analytical strategies rather than improve the sensitivity of AChE towards OPs. In this work, AChE wild-type (WT) and mutants (E69Y and E69Y/F330L) from Drosophila were successfully displayed on the surface of yeast through a-agglutinin-mediated microbial surface display system. The location of AChE on yeast surface was confirmed by immunofluorescence analysis. Further, a fluorescence OPs detection method was developed by combining yeast surface-displayed AChE mutants and protein-directed electronegative fluorescent gold nanoclusters (Au NCs). Yeast surface-displayed AChE can catalyze the hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine to produce thiocholine. The electropositive thiocholine can not only bind with AuNCs by Au-S bond but also absorb Au NCs by the electrostatic interaction, leading to the aggregation of AuNCs and corresponding fluorescence quenching. When AChE was incubated with paraoxon, a typical model of OPs, the activity of AChE was inhibited and the thiocholine-induced aggregation of AuNCs was reduced. The fluorescence assay based on Au NCs and yest-AChE-E69Y/F330L exhibited the ultra-sensitivity for ultra-trace OPs and 2-6 orders of magnitude lower detection limit (3.3 × 10 M) than those of AChE-WT-based method and other reported methods. In addition, the proposed method showed excellent reliability for the real samples assay. This work would provide an alternative strategy for the improvement of bio-analysis at its source.
乙酰胆碱酯酶(AChE)已广泛应用于基于酶抑制的有机磷农药(OPs)检测。为了提高荧光法测定 OPs 的灵敏度,人们努力改变荧光探针或分析策略,而不是提高 AChE 对 OPs 的灵敏度。在这项工作中,通过 a-凝集素介导的微生物表面展示系统,成功地将果蝇中的 AChE 野生型(WT)和突变体(E69Y 和 E69Y/F330L)展示在酵母表面。通过免疫荧光分析证实了 AChE 在酵母表面的位置。此外,通过结合酵母表面展示的 AChE 突变体和蛋白导向的负电荧光金纳米簇(Au NCs),开发了一种荧光 OPs 检测方法。酵母表面展示的 AChE 可以催化乙酰硫代胆碱的水解生成硫代胆碱。正电性的硫代胆碱不仅可以通过 Au-S 键与 AuNCs 结合,还可以通过静电相互作用吸收 AuNCs,导致 AuNCs 的聚集和相应的荧光猝灭。当 AChE 与对氧磷孵育时,一种典型的 OPs 模型,AChE 的活性被抑制,AuNCs 诱导的硫代胆碱聚集减少。基于 Au NCs 和酵母-AChE-E69Y/F330L 的荧光分析方法表现出对超痕量 OPs 的超高灵敏度,检测限比 AChE-WT 方法和其他报道的方法低 2-6 个数量级(3.3×10-9M)。此外,该方法对实际样品的测定表现出优异的可靠性。这项工作为提高生物分析的源头可靠性提供了一种替代策略。