Near-Infrared-Fluorescent Probe for Turn-On Lipopolysaccharide Analysis Based on PEG-Modified Gold Nanorods with Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence

Abstract

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as the major component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, can trigger a variety of biological effects such as sepsis, septic shock, and even multiorgan failure. Herein, we developed a near-infrared-fluorescent probe for fluorescent turn-on analysis of LPS based on plasmon-enhanced fluorescence (PEF). Gold nanorods (Au NRs) modified polyethylene glycol (PEG) was used as PEF materials. Au NRs were prepared with different longitudinal surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), and their fluorescence enhancement was investigated. Three kinds of molecular weights (1000, 5000, and 10000) of polyethylene glycol (PEG) were employed to control the distance between the Au NRs and the fluorescence substances of cyanine 7 (Cy7). Experimental analysis showed that the enhancement was related to the spectral overlap between the plasmon resonance of Au NRs and the extinction/emission of fluorophore. The three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD) simulation further revealed that the enhancement was caused by local electric field enhancement. Furthermore, the probe was used for the ultrasensitive analysis of LPS with a detection limit of 3.85 ng/mL and could quickly distinguish the Gram-negative bacterium-Escherichia coli (E. coli) (with LPS in the membrane) from Gram-positive bacterium-Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) (without LPS), as well as quantitative determination of E. coli with a detection limit of 1.0 × 106 cfu/mL. These results suggested that the prepared probe has great potential for biomedical diagnosis and selective detection of LPS from different bacterial strains.

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