Issue 28, 2020

A graphene oxide-aided triple helical aggregation-induced emission biosensor for highly specific detection of charged collagen peptides

Abstract

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) probes have emerged as promising “turn-on” sensing tools for DNA and proteins, and the AIE biosensors conjugated with graphene oxide (GO) have shown improved selectivity. Collagen is an essential structural protein in the human body, and its degraded products are involved in a plethora of severe diseases. Collagen has a high content of charged amino acids, while EOG represents one of the most abundant charged triplets in Type I collagen. We, herein, for the first time report the construction of a GO-aided AIE biosensor for the detection of charged collagen peptides. We have shown that an AIE fluorophore TPE conjugated with a triple helical peptide TPE-PRG possesses strong fluorescence due to the restriction of intramolecular rotation of TPE in the trimer state. The adsorption of the probe TPE-PRG by GO leads to efficient fluorescence quenching, while the addition of target collagen peptide EOG releases the probe peptide from the GO surface and recovers its fluorescence. We have demonstrated that the TPE-PRG/GO complex provides a highly specific “turn-on” sensing platform for the target collagen peptide with a typical charged amino acid-rich sequence. The assay has shown little interference from other biomolecules, and it can also effectively distinguish the target charged collagen peptide from its single amino acid mutant type. The development of robust analytical assays for charged collagen peptides could pronouncedly extend our capability to investigate the pathology of collagen diseases, showing great potential for their molecular diagnosis.

Graphical abstract: A graphene oxide-aided triple helical aggregation-induced emission biosensor for highly specific detection of charged collagen peptides

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Feb 2020
Accepted
29 May 2020
First published
02 Jun 2020

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020,8, 6027-6033

A graphene oxide-aided triple helical aggregation-induced emission biosensor for highly specific detection of charged collagen peptides

X. Sun, Y. Qiao, W. Li, Y. Sui, Y. Ruan and J. Xiao, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, 8, 6027 DOI: 10.1039/D0TB00476F

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