Immobilization using the

For on-site measurement from grab sampling, a compact optical device with disposable strips for BOD determination has been developed [36]. The system includes three pairs of light-emitting diodes and photodiodes, and the disposable strips are made of inexpensive, transparent polycarbonate plates, where Pseudomonas fluorescens is immobilized. Using the 2,6-dichlorophenol-indo-phenol sodium salt as chromophore, a linear relationship was observed between the bioluminescence of the exposed strip and the BOD value. 

Fig. 5. (a) Layout of a slide that was spotted and immobilized using the anti goat IgG rabbit antibody and the anti rabbit IgG goat-antibody, (b) Fluorescent image after incubation of a Cy5-labeled goat IgG. (c) Fluorescent image after incubation of a Cy5-labeled rabbit IgG. 

Heparin immobilized using the described procedure retained only 1 % of the initial activity of heparin in solution. This fact may probably be explained by the denaturation of heparin effected by nitric acid, which was the reaction medium for the graft-copoly-merization procedure. The inaccessibility of the majority of heparin macromolecules of a copolymer not swelling in an aqueous solution, in particular, supplies... 

Ku et al. [434] demonstrated that microreactors can also be used for tandem reactions. A microreactor containing beads functionalized with polyketide synthase [1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene synthase (THNS)] was coupled to one that contained soybean peroxidase (SBP). THNS was immobilized using the Ni-NTA method... 

Carboxylic acids can be attached to these linkers using methods of ester bond formation such as carbodiimide/DMAP [23] and acid chloride/base. For the loading of N-protected-a-amino acids in particular, an array of different methods has been developed to minimize enantiomerizahon and dipeptide formation during the esterification reaction. These include the use of MSNT/N-methylimidazole [24], mixed anhydrides generated with 2,6-dichlorobenzoyl chloride [25], esters of 2,5-diphenyl-2,3-dihydro-3-oxo-4-hydroxythiophene [26] and acid fluorides [27]. Phenols and N-protected hydroxylamines have been immobilized using the Mitsunobu reaction [28, 29], The latter are particularly useful for the preparation of hydroxamates [29, 30],... 

Fig. 8. Schematic illustration of the reaction steps of the determination of the protein adsorption and immobilization using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...

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Potcntiomctric Biosensors Potentiometric electrodes for the analysis of molecules of biochemical importance can be constructed in a fashion similar to that used for gas-sensing electrodes. The most common class of potentiometric biosensors are the so-called enzyme electrodes, in which an enzyme is trapped or immobilized at the surface of an ion-selective electrode. Reaction of the analyte with the enzyme produces a product whose concentration is monitored by the ion-selective electrode. Potentiometric biosensors have also been designed around other biologically active species, including antibodies, bacterial particles, tissue, and hormone receptors. 

In fact, most RIAs and many nonisotopic immunoassays use a competitive binding format (see Fig. 2). In this approach, the analyte in the sample to be measured competes with a known amount of added analyte that has been labeled with an indicator that binds to the immobilized antibody. After reaction, the free analyte—analyte-indicator solution is washed away from the soHd phase. The analyte-indicator on the soHd phase or remaining in the wash solution is then used to quantify the amount of analyte present in the sample as measured against a control assay using only an analyte-indicator. This is done by quantifying the analyte-indicator using the method appropriate for the assay, for example, enzyme activity, fluorescence, radioactivity, etc. 

Heterogeneous hydrogenation catalysts can be used in either a supported or an unsupported form. The most common supports are based on alurnina, carbon, and siUca. Supports are usually used with the more expensive metals and serve several purposes. Most importandy, they increase the efficiency of the catalyst based on the weight of metal used and they aid in the recovery of the catalyst, both of which help to keep costs low. When supported catalysts are employed, they can be used as a fixed bed or as a slurry (Uquid phase) or a fluidized bed (vapor phase). In a fixed-bed process, the amine or amine solution flows over the immobile catalyst. This eliminates the need for an elaborate catalyst recovery system and minimizes catalyst loss. When a slurry or fluidized bed is used, the catalyst must be separated from the amine by gravity (settling), filtration, or other means. 

A useful specialized type of analytical iastmmentation is the fibei-optic sensoi oi optiode (253,254), ia which an optical tiansducei monitois some chemically selective change. These aie often based on the fluorescence of a leagent immobilized at the distal end of the ftbei (255). 

Two types of immobilization are used for immobilizing glucose isomerase. The intracellular enzyme is either immobilized within the bacterial cells to produce a whole-ceU product, or the enzyme is released from the cells, recovered, and immobilized onto an inert carrier. An example of the whole-ceU process is one in which cells are dismpted by homogenization, cross-linked with glutaraldehyde, flocculated using a cationic flocculent, and extmded (42). 

Immobilized Enzymes. The immobilized enzyme electrode is the most common immobilized biopolymer sensor, consisting of a thin layer of enzyme immobilized on the surface of an electrochemical sensor as shown in Figure 6. The enzyme catalyzes a reaction that converts the target substrate into a product that is detected electrochemicaHy. The advantages of immobilized enzyme electrodes include minimal pretreatment of the sample matrix, small sample volume, and the recovery of the enzyme for repeated use (49). Several reviews and books have been pubHshed on immobilized enzyme electrodes (50—52). 

The enzyme can be immobilized on the electrode by several techniques (53). The simplest method, first used in 1962, is to trap an enzyme solution between the electrode surface and a semipermeable membrane. Another technique is to immobilize the enzyme in a polymer gel such as polyacrylamide which is coated on the electrode surface. Very thin-membrane films can be obtained by electropolymerization techniques (49,54,55) using polypyrrole, polyindole, or polyphenylenediamine films, among others. These thin films (qv) offer the advantage of improved diffusion of substrate and product that... 

Multienzyme Electrodes. Coupling the reactions of two or more immobilized enzymes increases the number of analytes that can be measured. An electro-inactive component can be converted by an enzyme to a substrate that is subsequentiy converted by a second enzyme to form a detectable end product (57). For example, a maltose [69-79-4] sensor uses the enzymes glucoamylase and glucose oxidase, which convert... 

The first instant color photography system, introduced by the Polaroid Corp. in 1963 as Polacolor, used the transfer of subtractive dyes to a receiver sheet to produce a positive image. The incorporated dye-developers, containing a hydroquinone moiety, are soluble in the alkaline activator solution, except where silver development occurs, when they are immobilized as the quinone form. 

Here X and Y are immobilizing groups. Fuji instant color films are based on a similar dye-release mechanism using the o-sulfonamidophenol dye-release compounds shown in Figure 8 (35). Similarly, immobilej -su1fonamidoani1ines, where Y is H and the phenol group is replaced by an NHR moiety, may be used as dye releasers. 

These appHcations are mosdy examples of homogeneous catalysis. Coordination catalysts that are attached to polymers via phosphine, siloxy, or other side chains have also shown promise. The catalytic specificity is often modified by such immobilization. Metal enzymes are, from this point of view, anchored coordination catalysts immobilized by the protein chains. Even multistep syntheses are possible using alternating catalysts along polymer chains. Other polynuclear coordination species, such as the homopoly and heteropoly ions, also have appHcations in reaction catalysis. 

Electrodecantation or electroconvec tion is one of several operations in which one mobile component (or several) is to be separated out from less mobile or immobile ones. The mixture is introduced between two vertical semipermeable membranes for separating cations, anion membranes are used, and vice versa. When an electric field is apphed, the charged component migrates to one or another of the membranes but since it cannot penetrate the membrane, it accumulates at the surface to form a dense concentrated layer of particles which will sink toward the bottom of the apparatus. Near the top of the apparatus immobile components will be relatively pure. Murphy [J. Electrochem. Soc., 97(11), 405 (1950)] has used silver-silver chloride electrodes in place of membranes. Frilette [J. Phys. Chem., 61, 168 (1957)], using anion membranes, partially separated and Na, ... 

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