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Aslan‐Üzel AS, Beier A, Kovář D, Cziegler C, Padhi SK, Schuiten ED, Dörr M, Böttcher D, Hollmann F, Rudroff F, Mihovilovic MD, Buryška T, Damborský J, Prokop Z, Badenhorst CPS, Bornscheuer UT. An Ultrasensitive Fluorescence Assay for the Detection of Halides and Enzymatic Dehalogenation. ChemCatChem 2020; 12:2032-2039. [PMID: 32362951 PMCID: PMC7188320 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Halide assays are important for the study of enzymatic dehalogenation, a topic of great industrial and scientific importance. Here we describe the development of a very sensitive halide assay that can detect less than a picomole of bromide ions, making it very useful for quantifying enzymatic dehalogenation products. Halides are oxidised under mild conditions using the vanadium-dependent chloroperoxidase from Curvularia inaequalis, forming hypohalous acids that are detected using aminophenyl fluorescein. The assay is up to three orders of magnitude more sensitive than currently available alternatives, with detection limits of 20 nM for bromide and 1 μM for chloride and iodide. We demonstrate that the assay can be used to determine specific activities of dehalogenases and validate this by comparison to a well-established GC-MS method. This new assay will facilitate the identification and characterisation of novel dehalogenases and may also be of interest to those studying other halide-producing enzymes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aşkın S. Aslan‐Üzel
- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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- Loschmidt Laboratories Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrno625 00Czech Republic
- International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University Hospital BrnoBrno656 91Czech Republic
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- Loschmidt Laboratories Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrno625 00Czech Republic
- International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University Hospital BrnoBrno656 91Czech Republic
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic ChemistryTU WienVienna1060Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering Laboratory Department of Biochemistry School of Life SciencesUniversity of HyderabadGachibowli500046India
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelft2629 HZ (TheNetherlands
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic ChemistryTU WienVienna1060Austria
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- Loschmidt Laboratories Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrno625 00Czech Republic
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- Loschmidt Laboratories Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrno625 00Czech Republic
- International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University Hospital BrnoBrno656 91Czech Republic
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- Loschmidt Laboratories Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX Faculty of ScienceMasaryk UniversityBrno625 00Czech Republic
- International Clinical Research CenterSt. Anne's University Hospital BrnoBrno656 91Czech Republic
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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- Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of BiochemistryGreifswald UniversityGreifswald17487Germany
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Pilát Z, Kizovský M, Ježek J, Krátký S, Sobota J, Šiler M, Samek O, Buryška T, Vaňáček P, Damborský J, Prokop Z, Zemánek P. Detection of Chloroalkanes by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Microfluidic Chips. Sensors (Basel) 2018; 18:E3212. [PMID: 30249041 PMCID: PMC6210807 DOI: 10.3390/s18103212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Revised: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Optofluidics, a research discipline combining optics with microfluidics, currently aspires to revolutionize the analysis of biological and chemical samples, e.g., for medicine, pharmacology, or molecular biology. In order to detect low concentrations of analytes in water, we have developed an optofluidic device containing a nanostructured substrate for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The geometry of the gold surface allows localized plasmon oscillations to give rise to the SERS effect, in which the Raman spectral lines are intensified by the interaction of the plasmonic field with the electrons in the molecular bonds. The SERS substrate was enclosed in a microfluidic system, which allowed transport and precise mixing of the analyzed fluids, while preventing contamination or abrasion of the highly sensitive substrate. To illustrate its practical use, we employed the device for quantitative detection of persistent environmental pollutant 1,2,3-trichloropropane in water in submillimolar concentrations. The developed sensor allows fast and simple quantification of halogenated compounds and it will contribute towards the environmental monitoring and enzymology experiments with engineered haloalkane dehalogenase enzymes.
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- Zdeněk Pilát
- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A13, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A13, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A13, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A13, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska 147, 61264 Brno, Czech Republic.
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