Sensitive and Rapid Electrochemiluminescent Detection of Choline Based on Luminol Derivate-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
摘要
As the key factor in brain development and fat metabolism, choline is widely present in foods, especially in health care and dairy products. In this study, a simple, rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective method was proposed for choline detection based on luminol derivate (L012) doped amino silica nanoparticles (L012@SiNPs-NH2). L012@SiNPs-NH2 exhibited a 47-fold increase in the electrochemiluminescence (ECL) response and much better uniformity and dispersion compared with conventional luminol-doped silica nanoparticles (Luminol@SiNPs). We thus constructed an ECL biosensor based on the L012@SiNPs-NH2/H2O2 system, in which co-reactant H2O2 is generated from dissolved oxygen during the process of oxidation of choline by choline oxidase. Significantly, the ECL biosensor shows a linear relationship between ECL intensity and choline concentration in the range of 1–5000 μM, with a low limit of detection of 1 μM. Additionally, the recovery tests from milk powders were conducted, demonstrating its practical application potential, which could be expanded to other oxidase-related analytes detection. It greatly broadened the application of L012 based nano-emitters in biological, food, and clinical analysis.