Sensing of bacterial cell viability using nanostructured bioelectrochemical system: rGO-hyperbranched chitosan nanocomposite as a novel microbial sensor platform
By Sedki, Mohammed; Hassan, Rabeay Y. A.; Hefnawy, Amr; El-Sherbiny, Ibrahim M.
Published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
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2017
Abstract
Abstract To enable an accurate, sensitive and real-time bacterial cell viability analysis, reduced graphene oxide-hyperbranched chitosan (rGO-HBCs) nanocomposite is introduced for the first time as an electrode modifier in microbial electrochemical systems. Before testing the microbiologic responses, structural and morphological analyses of the nano-electrode modifiers were obtained using FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, {DSC} and {TGA} thermal analyses, XRD, scanning electron microscopy, and cyclic voltammetry. As a result of the explored high electrocatalytic functions of the nanocomposite, the direct bacterial-electrode interactions were successfully enabled. Consequently, optimization of the bacterial activity assay was done on E. coli as a model microorganism and P. aeruginosa as a targeted pathogen. To this end, the new rGO-HBCs nanocomposite enhanced the detection limit to reach the sensitivity of {OD600} = 0.025, which is ten times lower than the previously reported results. Thus, the cell viability along with the susceptibility of P. aeruginosa to the different concentrations of kanamycin, simvastatin and ciprofloxacin antibiotics was rapidly detected. In parallel, the cell viability of each treated culture was measured using the WST-1 test as a reference method.
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