Compact amperometric algal biosensors for the evaluation of water toxicity
Compact amperometric algal biosensors for the evaluation of water toxicity
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DOI:
10.1016/j.aca.2004.09.073
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发表时间:
2005-02
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Isao Shitanda;K. Takada;Y. Sakai;T. Tatsuma
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作者:
Isao Shitanda;K. Takada;Y. Sakai;T. Tatsuma
Unicellular microalga Chlorella vulgaris was entrapped in an alginate gel or a polyion complex membrane immobilized directly on the surface of a transparent indium tin oxide electrode. Photosynthetically generated oxygen of the immobilized algae was monitored amperometically. Responses of the algal biosensor to four toxic compounds, 6-chloro-N-ethyl-N-isopropyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine (atrazine), 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-diethylurea (DCMU), toluene and benzene, were evaluated as inhibition ratios of the reduction current. The concentrations that give 50% inhibition of the oxygen reduction current ( [Formula: see text] ) for atrazine, DCMU, toluene and benzene were 2.0, 0.05, 1550 and 3000μmoldm−3, respectively. There was a good correlation between these data and those of the conventional standard growth test. In comparison with the conventional algal biosensors based on the Clark-type oxygen electrode, the present sensor is much smaller and less expensive, and its assay time is much shorter (≤200s).