Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 241, Issue -, Pages 255-261Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.10.042
Keywords
Bioluminescence; Adenosine triphosphate; Vancomycin; Magnetic particles; Gram-positive bacteria
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21475107]
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A facile bioluminescent protocol was developed to detect the total amount of viable Gram-positive bacteria based on a novel antibiotic-affinity strategy. Vancomycin-functionalized magnetic particles were adopted to isolate Gram-positive bacteria from sample matrix, utilizing the five-point hydrogen bonds binding between vancomycin and D-Alanyl-D-Alanine moieties on the cell wall. Then the bioluminescence signal from the bacterial intracellular adenosine triphosphate was collected to quantify the captured bacteria after cells lysis. In this proof-of-principle work, the developed protocol was applied to detect four Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus luteus, Bacillus cereus and Streptococcus mutans. It showed a linear range of 1.0 x 10(2)-1.0 x 10(7) CFU mL(-1) and a detection limit of 33 CFU mL(-1) for the four model bacteria. The whole assay process could be completed within 70 min, Gram-negative bacteria and dead bacteria all showed negligible interference to the detection of the viable Gram-positive bacteria. The method was successfully applied to quantify the amount of viable Gram-positive bacteria in environmental, food and pharmaceutical samples with acceptable recovery values ranging from 72.0% to 120.0%. The protocol possessed numerous advantages such as high sensitivity, low cost, ideal specificity and short detection time. It could also be extended to Gram-negative bacteria detection by utilizing other antibiotics acting on Gram-negative bacteria. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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