{"title":"A method for the rapid detection of heavy metal mercury ions based on a novel mercury chelator N,N'-bis (2-mercaptoethyl) isophthalamide","authors":"Yali Wang, Shuangbo Zhang, Jiang Bian, Joseph Brake, Chaoyang Luo, Chuanwen Sun, Xiaobin Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.142486","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mercury has caused severe harm to the environment and human health. A novel biological screen method was developed and identified a Hg<sup>2+</sup> chelator BDTH2. Both biological and chemical methods demonstrated BDTH2 displayed a high specificity and strong binding capacity for Hg<sup>2+</sup>. Toxicological experiments of BDTH2 demonstrated its good safety. To enhance the sensitivity, functional composite BDTH2-AuNPs were synthesized, and the system exhibited strong specificity to Hg<sup>2+</sup> and excellent anti-interference capabilities. The optimized colorimetric method and the paper test strip method showed a visual detection limit of 3 nM less than 30 s and 5 nM within 1 min respectively. This system was evaluated for detecting spiked Hg<sup>2+</sup> concentrations in environmental water and six agricultural food samples and showed high consistence with those of ICP-MS. Therefore, this study provides a novel, rapid, and economical method for on-site detecting of Hg<sup>2+</sup> in water and agricultural products.","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Food Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.142486","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mercury has caused severe harm to the environment and human health. A novel biological screen method was developed and identified a Hg2+ chelator BDTH2. Both biological and chemical methods demonstrated BDTH2 displayed a high specificity and strong binding capacity for Hg2+. Toxicological experiments of BDTH2 demonstrated its good safety. To enhance the sensitivity, functional composite BDTH2-AuNPs were synthesized, and the system exhibited strong specificity to Hg2+ and excellent anti-interference capabilities. The optimized colorimetric method and the paper test strip method showed a visual detection limit of 3 nM less than 30 s and 5 nM within 1 min respectively. This system was evaluated for detecting spiked Hg2+ concentrations in environmental water and six agricultural food samples and showed high consistence with those of ICP-MS. Therefore, this study provides a novel, rapid, and economical method for on-site detecting of Hg2+ in water and agricultural products.
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Food Chemistry publishes original research papers dealing with the advancement of the chemistry and biochemistry of foods or the analytical methods/ approach used. All papers should focus on the novelty of the research carried out.