Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and thionine (TN) were co-adsorbed onto a porous carbon felt (CF), and the resulting HRP and TN-adsorbed CF (HRP-TN-CF) was successfully used as a working electrode unit of a novel bioelectrocatalytic flow detector for a highly sensitive amperometric determination of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)). Co-adsorbed TN was essential to enhance the cathodic peak current of H...

Loomis & Lipmann (1948) showed that low concentrations of 2:4-dinitrophenol (DNP) reversibly uncouple the phosphorylation associated with the oxidation of glutamate. This supported the hypothesis that agents such as DNP, which prevent the use of the energy provided by respiration and glycolysis, do so by inhibiting the formation of highenergy phosphate bonds (Lardy & Elvehjem, 1945; McElroy, 19...

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) has been an extensively used tumor marker responsible for clinical early diagnosis of cervical carcinomas, and pancreatic, colorectal, gastric and lung cancer. Combined with micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) technology, it is important to develop a novel immune microelectrode array (MEA) not only for rapid analysis of serum samples, but also for cell detectio...

Flavin-dependent oxidoreductases are increasingly recognized as important biocatalysts for various industrial applications. In order to identify novel activities and to improve these enzymes in engineering approaches, suitable screening methods are necessary. We developed novel microtiter-plate-based assays for flavin-dependent oxidases and dehydrogenases using redox dyes as electron acceptors ...

The paramagnetic microbead-based electrochemical binding assay was demonstrated for detecting two kinds of protein simultaneously. The principle of this assay is based on the sequestration electrochemistry. The protein binding electroactive magnetic microbeads which are conjugated with an electroactive compound and a ligand to bind specifically with a target protein were prepared. The avidin-bi...

Many years ago Hertwig (1) and Dalcq (2) showed that trypaflavine has the property of inactivating the frog sperm nucleus without affecting the extranuclear parts of the cell. Following an appropriate treatment with the dye, the sperm cells still retain their capacity to activate eggs, but contribute no chromosomes to the resulting embryos, which then develop as haploids with the maternal chrom...