Gastrointestinal tract mechanism of nitrite capture modeled on the self assembled monolayer of thioproline for electrochemical nitrite determination

Nimisha Singh, Khushbu Patel, Suban K. Sahoo, Ranjan K. Pati, Rajender Kumar

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Abstract

Gastrointestinal (GI) tract has a unique mechanism for nitric oxide (NO) capture in the form of N-nitrosamines. N-Nitrosamines are formed by the reaction between thioproline (THP) and NO under the acidic conditions prevalent in the stomach. The nitrosamines thus formed are excreted in the urine and act as an important biomarker for human NO concentrations. Exploiting the GI tract mechanism of nitrosamine formation, we prepared the self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of THP on gold wafers and gold nanoparticles (GNPs). The SAMs were characterized by contact angle measurements, ATR-FTIR, FE-SEM with EDS, XPS, DLS and TEM. The SAM-covered gold surfaces were used as a mimetic model of the GI tract to capture nitrite (NO2) ions for their determination using electrochemical and colorimetric methods. The XPS and ATR-FTIR were used to determine the mechanism of NO2 binding to THP, supported by electrochemical measurements. The rapid NO2 capture by THP SAM-coated gold surfaces results in the electrovalent binding of NO2 with THP within fractions of seconds. Since THP is known to react with NO2 at about a 1000 times faster rate than the reaction with known reactants, the added advantage of the designed THP-SAM-coated gold surface model is a rapid reaction kinetics which minimize the self-decomposition of NO. The electrochemical detection provides an excellent detection limit with good sensitivity. UV-visible spectroscopy, though it efficiently detects the traces of NO2, is unable to give the competitive limit of detection and sensitivity obtained from electrochemical detection. Thus, the THP-SAM-coated gold model can be considered as a GI tract model capturing the NO2 using similar reactants and conditions prevalent to those in GI tract. The developed model can be employed for routine screening and the determination of NO2 or NO in complex samples or biological matrices without any interference from the matrix as most common impurities/species do not react with THP-SAMs under the employed conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3389-3403
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume5
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

This work was made possible by a grant from the SVNIT, Surat (Fellowship to NS) and DST (SB/EMEQ-494/2014) (Fellowship to KP) and financial support for the project. We would also like to thank SAIF, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, for providing the FE-SEM with EDS and TEM facility and IISC Bangalore for XPS.

FundersFunder number
Indian Institute of Technology
SVNIT
Illinois Institute of Technology
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, IndiaSB/EMEQ-494/2014

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