Biocompatible Platinum Nanoclusters Prepared Using Bitter Gourd Polysaccharide for Colorimetric Detection of Ascorbic Acid

Kai Liu; Yu Zhao; Lu Zhang; Mengmeng He; Weifeng Lin; Haotian Sun; Zhiwei Liu; Jie Hu; Longgang Wang

doi:10.3390/biom11050647

Biomolecules (Apr 2021)

Biocompatible Platinum Nanoclusters Prepared Using Bitter Gourd Polysaccharide for Colorimetric Detection of Ascorbic Acid

Kai Liu,
Yu Zhao,
Lu Zhang,
Mengmeng He,
Weifeng Lin,
Haotian Sun,
Zhiwei Liu,
Jie Hu,
Longgang Wang

Affiliations

Kai Liu: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Yu Zhao: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Lu Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Mengmeng He: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Weifeng Lin: Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Haotian Sun: Ocean NanoTech, LLC, San Diego, CA 92126, USA
Zhiwei Liu: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Jie Hu: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Longgang Wang: State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Hebei Key Laboratory of Heavy Metal Deep-Remediation in Water and Resource Reuse, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11050647
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 5
p. 647

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Ascorbic acid is an organic compound with antioxidant properties that can protect the human body from the threat of free radicals. Therefore, it is important to detect the existence and measure the concentration of ascorbic acid to regulate its content in the human body. In this work, we prepared bitter gourd polysaccharide (BGP)-stabilized platinum nanoclusters (Pt-BGP NCs) by reacting BGP with K2PtCl4. Pt-BGP NCs and catalyzed the decomposition of H2O2 to generate •OH radicals, which could oxidize TMB to form oxidized TMB (oxTMB), indicating their peroxidase-like properties. The kinetics followed the Michaelis–Menten equation. Furthermore, the colorimetric detection of ascorbic acid using Pt-BGP NCs showed high selectivity and a low detection limit of 0.191 μM. The accuracy of real sample detection using Pt-BGP NCs was as high as 98.9%. More importantly, Pt-BGP NCs had high cell biocompatibility and extremely low hemolysis rate due to the component of BGP. In summary, the prepared Pt-BGP NCs with reductive activity and good biocompatibility have good application prospects in colorimetric detection of ascorbic acid.

Published in Biomolecules

ISSN: 2218-273X (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomolecules

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