A novel cobalt complex for enhancing amperometric and impedimetric DNA detection

Edward M. Regan; Andrew J. Hallett; L. C. Caleb Wong; Ibrahim Q. Saeed; Emily E. Langdon-Jones; Niklaas J. Buurma; Simon J. A. Pope; Pedro Estrela

doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.028

A novel cobalt complex for enhancing amperometric and impedimetric DNA detection

Edward M. Regan, Andrew J. Hallett, L. C. Caleb Wong, Ibrahim Q. Saeed, Emily E. Langdon-Jones, Niklaas J. Buurma, Simon J. A. Pope, Pedro Estrela

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Cardiff University

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Abstract

In this work we present a novel cobalt complex, [Co(GA)2(aqphen)]Cl that is water-soluble, redox-active and binds to dsDNA. We report that this complex can be used as a signal enhancer when detecting DNA hybridisation using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The compound mediates its EIS signal enhancement by causing an increase in charge transfer resistance (Rct) when bound to dsDNA. Increased peak currents are also observed with DPV when the compound is incubated with dsDNA as compared with ssDNA. We believe that this compound intercalates specifically with dsDNA and alters the DNA structure to affect the electrostatic barrier to charged redox markers in solution. To our knowledge this is the first example of a single compound that can enhance both amperometric and impedimetric signals for DNA detection. Our findings enable the development of a label-free and multi-modal approach to improve the sensitivity, accuracy and speed of electrochemical DNA detection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-15
Number of pages	6
Journal	Electrochimica Acta
Volume	128
Early online date	18 Oct 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.028
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2014

Keywords

DNA sensors
intercalators
electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
differential pulse voltammetry

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