Biosensors Based on Self-Assembly and Boronate Affinity Interaction

A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 5675

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Henan Province of Key Laboratory of New Optoelectronic Functional Materials, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, China
Interests: biosensors; electrocatalysts; self-assembly; metal–peptide complexes; nanomaterials; signal amplification
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Dear Colleagues,

Biosensors show promising prospects in the assays of various targets due to their advantages of high sensitivity, good selectivity and rapid response. Self-assembled nanomaterials have witnessed tremendous progress in a variety of biosensing and biomedical applications due to their intriguing characteristics, such as facile processability, structure tailoring and excellent biocompatibility. Molecular recognition is a key event of biosensors. Boronic acid-based materials have been widely used as synthetic receptors for the specific recognition and detection of cis-diol-containing species. Contributions to this Special Issue should cover the advances in biosensors based on self-assembly and/or boronate affinity interaction. The analytes include small molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, enzymes, exosomes, virus and cells.

Dr. Lin Liu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biosensors
  • self-assembly
  • molecular recognition
  • boronate affinity
  • metal–organic frameworks
  • covalent organic frameworks
  • hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks
  • organic nanocrystals
  • aggregation-induced emission

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Progress in Electrochemical Immunosensors with Alkaline Phosphatase as the Signal Label
by Changdong Chen, Ming La, Xinyao Yi, Mengjie Huang, Ning Xia and Yanbiao Zhou
Biosensors 2023, 13(9), 855; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios13090855 - 29 Aug 2023
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Electrochemical immunosensors have shown great potential in clinical diagnosis, food safety, environmental protection, and other fields. The feasible and innovative combination of enzyme catalysis and other signal-amplified elements has yielded exciting progress in the development of electrochemical immunosensors. Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is one [...] Read more.
Electrochemical immunosensors have shown great potential in clinical diagnosis, food safety, environmental protection, and other fields. The feasible and innovative combination of enzyme catalysis and other signal-amplified elements has yielded exciting progress in the development of electrochemical immunosensors. Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is one of the most popularly used enzyme reporters in bioassays. It has been widely utilized to design electrochemical immunosensors owing to its significant advantages (e.g., high catalytic activity, high turnover number, and excellent substrate specificity). In this work, we summarized the achievements of electrochemical immunosensors with ALP as the signal reporter. We mainly focused on detection principles and signal amplification strategies and briefly discussed the challenges regarding how to further improve the performance of ALP-based immunoassays. Full article
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Biosensors with Boronic Acid-Based Materials as the Recognition Elements and Signal Labels
by Lin Liu, Xiaohua Ma, Yong Chang, Hang Guo and Wenqing Wang
Biosensors 2023, 13(8), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios13080785 - 03 Aug 2023
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It is of great importance to have sensitive and accurate detection of cis-diol-containing biologically related substances because of their important functions in the research fields of metabolomics, glycomics, and proteomics. Boronic acids can specifically and reversibly interact with 1,2- or 1,3-diols to [...] Read more.
It is of great importance to have sensitive and accurate detection of cis-diol-containing biologically related substances because of their important functions in the research fields of metabolomics, glycomics, and proteomics. Boronic acids can specifically and reversibly interact with 1,2- or 1,3-diols to form five or six cyclic esters. Based on this unique property, boronic acid-based materials have been used as synthetic receptors for the specific recognition and detection of cis-diol-containing species. This review critically summarizes the recent advances with boronic acid-based materials as recognition elements and signal labels for the detection of cis-diol-containing biological species, including ribonucleic acids, glycans, glycoproteins, bacteria, exosomes, and tumor cells. We also address the challenges and future perspectives for developing versatile boronic acid-based materials with various promising applications. Full article
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Advancements in Biosensors Based on the Assembles of Small Organic Molecules and Peptides
by Dehua Deng, Yong Chang, Wenjing Liu, Mingwei Ren, Ning Xia and Yuanqiang Hao
Biosensors 2023, 13(8), 773; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios13080773 - 29 Jul 2023
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Over the past few decades, molecular self-assembly has witnessed tremendous progress in a variety of biosensing and biomedical applications. In particular, self-assembled nanostructures of small organic molecules and peptides with intriguing characteristics (e.g., structure tailoring, facile processability, and excellent biocompatibility) have shown outstanding [...] Read more.
Over the past few decades, molecular self-assembly has witnessed tremendous progress in a variety of biosensing and biomedical applications. In particular, self-assembled nanostructures of small organic molecules and peptides with intriguing characteristics (e.g., structure tailoring, facile processability, and excellent biocompatibility) have shown outstanding potential in the development of various biosensors. In this review, we introduced the unique properties of self-assembled nanostructures with small organic molecules and peptides for biosensing applications. We first discussed the applications of such nanostructures in electrochemical biosensors as electrode supports for enzymes and cells and as signal labels with a large number of electroactive units for signal amplification. Secondly, the utilization of fluorescent nanomaterials by self-assembled dyes or peptides was introduced. Thereinto, typical examples based on target-responsive aggregation-induced emission and decomposition-induced fluorescent enhancement were discussed. Finally, the applications of self-assembled nanomaterials in the colorimetric assays were summarized. We also briefly addressed the challenges and future prospects of biosensors based on self-assembled nanostructures. Full article
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