Co-detection of dopamine and glucose with high temporal resolution
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Neuronal activity and brain glucose metabolism are tightly coupled, where triggered neurotransmission leads to a higher demand for glucose. To better understand the regulation of neuronal activity and its relation to high-speed metabolism, development of analytical tools that can temporally resolve the transients of vesicular neurotransmitter release and fluctuations of metabolites such as glucose in the local vicinity of the activated neurons is needed. Here we present an amperometric biosensor design for rapid co-detection of glucose and the neurotransmitter dopamine. The sensor is based on the immobilization of an ultra-thin layer of glucose oxidase on to a gold-nanoparticle-covered carbon fiber microelectrode. Our electrode, by altering the potential applied at the sensor surface, allows for the high-speed recording of both glucose and dopamine. We demonstrate that, even though glucose is electrochemically detected indirectly through the enzymatic product and the electroactive dopamine is sensed directly, when exposing the sensor surface to a mixture of the two analytes, fluctuations in glucose and dopamine concentrations can be visu alized with similar speed and at a millisecond time scale. Hence, by minimizing the enzyme coating thickness at the sensor surface, dual detection of glucose and dopamine can be realized at the same sensor surface and at time scales necessary for monitoring fast metabolic alterations during neurotransmission.

Författare

Jenny Bergman

Göteborgs universitet

Lisa Mellander

Göteborgs universitet

Yuanmo Wang

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

Ann-Sofie Cans

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

Catalysts

20734344 (eISSN)

Vol. 8 1 34

Ämneskategorier

Analytisk kemi

Annan kemiteknik

Annan kemi

DOI

10.3390/catal8010034

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2018-02-13