ConA-based glucose sensing using the long-lifetime azadioxatriangulenium fluorophore

Brian Cummins, Jonathan Simpson, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Thomas Just Sørensen, Bo W. Laursen, Duncan Graham, David Birch, Gerard Coté

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Abstract

Fluorescent glucose sensing technologies have been identified as possible alternatives to current continuous glucose monitoring approaches. We have recently introduced a new, smart fluorescent ligand to overcome the traditional problems of ConA-based glucose sensors. For this assay to be translated into a continuous glucose monitoring device where both components are free in solution, the molecular weight of the smart fluorescent ligand must be increased. We have identified ovalbumin as a naturally-occurring glycoprotein that could serve as the core-component of a 2nd generation smart fluorescent ligand. It has a single asparagine residue that is capable of displaying an N-linked glycan and a similar isoelectric point to ConA. Thus, binding between ConA and ovalbumin can potentially be monovalent and sugar specific. This work is the preliminary implementation of fluorescently-labeled ovalbumin in the ConA-based assay. We conjugate the red-emitting, long-lifetime azadioxatriangulenium (ADOTA+) dye to ovalbumin, as ADOTA have many advantageous properties to track the equilibrium binding of the assay. The ADOTA-labeled ovalbumin is paired with Alexa Fluor 647-labeled ConA to create a Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) assay that is glucose dependent. The assay responds across the physiologically relevant glucose range (0-500 mg/dL) with increasing intensity from the ADOTA-ovalbumin, showing that the strategy may allow for the translation of the smart fluorescent ligand concept into a continuous glucose monitoring device.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptical Diagnostics and Sensing XIV
Subtitle of host publicationToward Point-of-Care Diagnostics
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Print)9780819498649
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventOptical Diagnostics and Sensing XIV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 3 Feb 20146 Feb 2014

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume8951
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Other

OtherOptical Diagnostics and Sensing XIV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period3/02/146/02/14

Keywords

  • Glucose sensing
  • competitive binding
  • energy transfer
  • fluorescence

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