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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages 3206-3212Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04938
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- Basic Public Welfare Research Project of Zhejiang Province [LGG19B0S0001]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Q19B050016]
- Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials (Zhejiang Normal University)
- PhD Fund of ZJNU for Young Teachers [zz323205020517002104]
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Novel and distinct enhancement in electrochemiluminescence (ECL) signals of advanced organic luminophores are of importance for expanding their applications in early diagnosis. This work reported the construction of an ultrasensitive label-free ECL aptasensor for thrombin (TB) detection by grafting zinc proto-porphyrin IX (ZnP) onto an aminated zeolitic imidazole framework-8 (defined as ZnP-NH-ZIF-8 for clarity) as the luminophore. The structure and optical properties of the resulting ZnP-NH-ZIF-8 were carefully characterized. For that, there appeared to be weak ECL radiation for ZnP in dichloromethane (DCM) containing tetra-n-butylammonium perchlorate (TBAP) because of the as-formed singlet-state oxygen via the reduction-oxidation route. More notably, the ECL signals display 153-times enhancement for ZnP-NH-ZIF-8, thanks to the excellent catalytic kinetics for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). By virtue of the specific interactions of the TB aptamer (TBA) with the TB protein and the highly efficient catalysis of the ZnP-NH-ZIF-8 for ORR, the as-prepared aptasensor showed a wider linear range (0.1 fM similar to 1 pM) and a lower detection limit (ca. 58.6 aM). This work provides some useful guidelines for synthesis of an advanced organic luminophore with largely boosted ECL signals in ultrasensitive analysis and clinical diagnosis.
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