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Fabrication of Electrochemical-DNA Biosensors for the Reagentless Detection of Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Small Molecules
Published on: June 1, 2011
Electrochemical study of the interaction between cytochrome c and DNA at a modified gold electrode
XiaoQin Ding1, Jinhua Li, Jingbo Hu
1Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Abstract:
The direct electron transfer of surface-confined horse heart cytochrome c (Cyt c) was achieved using COOH-terminated alkanethiolate-modified gold electrode. Later DNA was immobilized on the two-layer modified electrode. The quantitative determination of DNA was explored and the interaction between cytochrome c and DNA was studied. The binding site sizes were determined to be 15 bp per Cyt c molecule with double-stranded (ds) DNA and 30 nucleotides binding one Cyt c molecule with single-stranded (ss) DNA. At the dsDNA/Cyt c/MUA/Au electrode, the rate constant of oxidation electron transfer k(s,ox)=1.59x10(-3)cms-1 was obtained, at the ssDNA/Cyt c/MUA/Au electrode, the value was 2.43x10(-3)ms-1 when the scan rate was 1.0V/s. The different electrodes were characterized with electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance and atomic force microscope.
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