A photosynthetic biosensor with enhanced electron transfer generation realized by laser printing technology

Anal Bioanal Chem. 2012 Apr;402(10):3237-44. doi: 10.1007/s00216-012-5771-7.

Abstract

One of the limits of current electrochemical biosensors is a lack of methods providing stable and highly efficient junctions between biomaterial and solid-state devices. This paper shows how laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) can enable efficient electron transfer from photosynthetic biomaterial immobilized on screen-printed electrodes (SPE). The ideal pattern, in terms of photocurrent signal of thylakoid droplets giving a stable response signal with a current intensity of approximately 335 ± 13 nA for a thylakoid mass of 28 ± 4 ng, was selected. It is shown that the efficiency of energy production of a photosynthetic system can be strongly enhanced by the LIFT process, as demonstrated by use of the technique to construct an efficient and sensitive photosynthesis-based biosensor for detecting herbicides at nanomolar concentrations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biosensing Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Biosensing Techniques / methods
  • Electrodes
  • Herbicides / analysis*
  • Photosynthesis
  • Plant Extracts / chemistry*
  • Printing
  • Spinacia oleracea / chemistry
  • Thylakoids / chemistry*

Substances

  • Herbicides
  • Plant Extracts