Dr. Xing Xuan, Chen Chen, Dr. Clara Pérez-Ràfols, Dr. Mikael Swarén, Lars Wedholm, Prof. Dr. Maria Cuartero, Prof. Dr. Gaston A. Crespo
{"title":"A Wearable Biosensor for Sweat Lactate as a Proxy for Sport Performance Monitoring","authors":"Dr. Xing Xuan, Chen Chen, Dr. Clara Pérez-Ràfols, Dr. Mikael Swarén, Lars Wedholm, Prof. Dr. Maria Cuartero, Prof. Dr. Gaston A. Crespo","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Invited for this month′s cover are the collaborating groups of Prof. Cuartero and Prof. Crespo at KTH and UCAM universities with the participation of Dalarna University. The cover picture shows a wearable biosensor for the digitalization of lactate in sweat during sport activity. The biosensor is integrated into a microfluidic system for continue lactate monitoring, producing reliable real-time profiles. It was found out that real-time sweat lactate assessment is a potential proxy of personalized training strategies in sports such as cycling.“ More information can be found in the Research Article by Maria Cuartero, Gaston A. Crespo, and co-workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anse.202300027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50131610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuwen Qian, Dr. Erin M. McConnell, Meghan Rothenbroker, Jimmy Gu, Simina Alungulesa, Louis Godbout, Prof. Yingfu Li
{"title":"Detecting Legionella pneumophila in Cooling Tower Water Samples with a DNAzyme/Bead-Based Fluorescence Assay","authors":"Shuwen Qian, Dr. Erin M. McConnell, Meghan Rothenbroker, Jimmy Gu, Simina Alungulesa, Louis Godbout, Prof. Yingfu Li","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Legionella pneumophila</i> is the causative agent behind the deadly waterborne disease Legionnaires’, which is commonly transmitted by the spread of contaminated droplets from cooling tower water samples. The lack of effective detection methods presents a challenge for <i>L. pneumophila</i> outbreak control. Previously, an RNA-cleaving DNAzyme called LP1 was reported to specifically target <i>L. pneumophila</i>. In this study, LP1 was immobilized onto agarose beads via streptavidin-biotin interaction to develop a bead-based fluorescence assay for <i>L. pneumophila</i> detection. This bead-based assay demonstrated excellent stability and functionality in various cooling tower water samples. To improve <i>L. pneumophila</i> monitoring in real-world samples, a lysozyme treatment was used to enhance <i>L. pneumophila</i> recognition. The limit of detection of this DNAzyme-based bead assay can reach 10<sup>3</sup> CFUs in cell-spiked cooling tower water samples without cell culturing or signal amplification steps.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anse.202300020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109174568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yao Xiao, Dr. Huan Li, Dr. Yidan Tang, Prof. Bingling Li
{"title":"A Universal CRISPR/Cas12a-Assisted Methodology Based on Duplex Switch Structure to Detect Multiple Types of Targets","authors":"Yao Xiao, Dr. Huan Li, Dr. Yidan Tang, Prof. Bingling Li","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent years, molecular detection technology has been playing an unprecedentedly important role in disease prevention and public health. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR) systems such as CRISPR/Cas12a and CRISPR/Cas13a, have been increasingly used in the detection of nucleic acid molecules because of its collateral cleavage ability in recent years. Herein, we develop a universal CRISPR/Cas12a-assisted methodology based on a nucleic acid duplex switch structure that can distinguish different categories of targets, such as DNA, RNA and small molecules. It is worth noting that for nucleic acid detection, this method can significantly identify single base substitutions with high specificity, compared with other Cas12a-assisted biosensing systems. The experimental results suggest that this method has great specificity for different targets, promising to be applied to rapid molecular diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109173120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wai Yin Yau, Dr. Samuel Kin-Man Lai, Dr. Pilar Blasco, Prof. Xuechen Li, Prof. Kwan Ming Ng, Dr. Chun Nam Lok, Dr. Ho Yu Au-Yeung
{"title":"Activity-based Fluorescent Imaging of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity in Living Cells","authors":"Wai Yin Yau, Dr. Samuel Kin-Man Lai, Dr. Pilar Blasco, Prof. Xuechen Li, Prof. Kwan Ming Ng, Dr. Chun Nam Lok, Dr. Ho Yu Au-Yeung","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Development of a fluorescent probe for activity-based sensing of activity of alcohol dehydrogenase, a key enzyme in ethanol biooxidation, is reported. A caged coumarin reporter is released upon the selective oxidation by the enzyme with a strong, >60-fold emission enhancement. The probe has a low cytotoxicity and has been applied in visualising alcohol dehydrogenase activity in HepG2, A549 and HEK293T cells, demonstrating its potential as a convenient, easy-to-use bioanalytical tools in unveiling the roles of the enzyme in alcohol metabolism.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109231317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing Success","authors":"Dr. Jonathan A. Faiz","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Editor in Chief Jonathan Faiz looks back at the developments in <i>Analysis & Sensing</i> in 2022, and introduces our new Commissioning Editors.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50124805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yupu Zhang, Dr. Xinfeng Du, Dr. Jingying Zhai, Prof. Xiaojiang Xie
{"title":"A Tunable Colorimetric Carbon Dioxide Sensor Based on Ion-Exchanger- and Chromoionophore-Doped Hydrogel","authors":"Yupu Zhang, Dr. Xinfeng Du, Dr. Jingying Zhai, Prof. Xiaojiang Xie","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report here a colorimetric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) optode sensor with a polypropylene microporous membrane on top of a thin layer (30 μm) of polyurethane hydrogel. The diffusion of CO<sub>2</sub> across the polypropylene membrane induced pH changes in the hydrogel containing a lipophilic indicator, a cation exchanger, and a cationic amine. The ratio of the indicator and the cation exchanger was successfully utilized to adjust the sensitivity of the CO<sub>2</sub> response. Increasing the relative amount of the cation exchanger made the sensor much more sensitive to CO<sub>2</sub> in the lower concentration range. Moreover, the carbarmic formation reaction between the primary amine and CO<sub>2</sub> was investigated. The results indicated a very small contribution of carbarmic formation to the overall pH change. With a detection limit of 0.014 % for the CO<sub>2</sub> partial pressure, the sensor was successful applied to monitor CO<sub>2</sub> evolution during yeast catalyzed flour fermentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109160273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simone Rink, Prof. Dr. Axel Duerkop, Prof. Dr. Antje J. Baeumner
{"title":"Enhanced Chemiluminescence of a Superior Luminol Derivative Provides Sensitive Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Testing with Enzymatic μPAD","authors":"Simone Rink, Prof. Dr. Axel Duerkop, Prof. Dr. Antje J. Baeumner","doi":"10.1002/anse.202200111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202200111","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chemiluminescence (CL) provides ideal conditions for point-of-care testing (POCT) with wide dynamic ranges, superior sensitivities, and detection simplicity. It has not arrived routinely in the POCT field due to naturally low quantum yields of typical probes and the lack of sensitive low-cost detection devices. Here, we developed a universal microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) using <span>l</span>-lactate as model analyte. We demonstrate that a smartphone camera can compete with a scientific CCD camera as performance benchmark when using the strong CL emitter, <i>m-</i>carboxy luminol, resulting in extraordinary signal-to-noise ratios of 67. The μPAD provides CV<10 %, stability at room temperature for≥3 months and simple processing. Furthermore, the μPAD enables the detection of picomoles of the luminophore providing additional design flexibility. Thus, this new CL-μPAD is available for translating the many CL standard analytical assays performed in <b>microtiter plates</b>, microarrays or other more complex detection strategies to the POC.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anse.202200111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingyuan Yu, Lijuan Qi, Songchen Zhao, Dr. Xiaojun Zhang, Xudong Shang, Prof. Xintong Hu, Liguo Chen, Duo Wang, Prof. Yanfang Jiang, Prof. Yan Du
{"title":"Enzyme-Free Fluorescent Detection of MicroRNA in Clinical Samples by Catalytic Hairpin Assembly Coupled with Magnetic Bead-Confined 3D DNA Walking","authors":"Jingyuan Yu, Lijuan Qi, Songchen Zhao, Dr. Xiaojun Zhang, Xudong Shang, Prof. Xintong Hu, Liguo Chen, Duo Wang, Prof. Yanfang Jiang, Prof. Yan Du","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA), as an enzyme-free isotheral nucleic acid amplification method, can easily cooperate with other amplification procedures to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of detection. Herein, we constructed a cascaded CHA sensing platform for breast cancer biomarker detection. Introducing a short double nucleic acid stand avoids the product of CHA1 to directly trigger the CHA2 reaction, which simplifies the design of the CHA hairpins. Compared with the single CHA2 reaction, the cascaded CHA biosensor activated by microRNA-155 holds nearly 10 times the amplification efficiency with detection limit down to 47.4 pM and quantifies the target in the range from 50 pM to 200 nM. Besides, the magnetic bead-confined CHA2 taking 3D DNA walking as the display form contributes to decreasing the environmental interference. As expected, the strategy sensitively distinguishes expression levels of microRNA-155 in different cell lines and cancer patients, which are consistent with the results of traditional qRT-PCR method. More importantly, simply adjusting the microRNA recognition sequence of CHA1 can extend the cascaded CHA platform to a wider detection range. Therefore, the robustness and efficiency of the approach enable the potential applications for detection of microRNA and early clinical disease diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109174572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiarong Shi, Dr. Rui Zhang, Dr. Yangyang Chang, Prof. Meng Liu
{"title":"Cover Feature: An Origami Paper-Based Analytical Device Coupled with Fast-Responding Functional RNA Superstructures for Tetracycline Detection (Anal. Sens. 3/2023)","authors":"Jiarong Shi, Dr. Rui Zhang, Dr. Yangyang Chang, Prof. Meng Liu","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The cover feature image shows</b> a fast-responding gating system by using horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-loaded functional RNA superstructures (HRP@3D RNA). The specificity of RNA aptamer-ligand interaction serves as a triggered manner to release the loaded HRP from HRP@3D RNA. Based on this, a disposable origami paper-based analytical device (doPAD) was developed for tetracycline (TC) detection. More information can be found in the Research Article by Meng Liu and co-workers.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anse.202300008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50123960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prof. Sho Hideshima, Dr. Hiroki Hayashi, Sayoko Saito, Prof. Hiroaki Tateno, Prof. Toshiyuki Momma, Prof. Tetsuya Osaka
{"title":"A Non-Destructive Electrical Assay of Stem Cell Differentiation Based on Semiconductor Biosensing","authors":"Prof. Sho Hideshima, Dr. Hiroki Hayashi, Sayoko Saito, Prof. Hiroaki Tateno, Prof. Toshiyuki Momma, Prof. Tetsuya Osaka","doi":"10.1002/anse.202300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202300004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Invited for this month′s cover is the collaborating groups of Prof. Sho Hideshima at Tokyo City University, Prof. Tetsuya Osaka at Waseda University, and Prof. Hiroaki Tateno at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. The cover picture shows a semiconductor-based biosensor with potential to detect the presence of a specific biomarker of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSCs) in a culture medium. More information can be found in the Research Article by S. Hideshima, T. Osaka, and co-workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":72192,"journal":{"name":"Analysis & sensing","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50115433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}