Heparin is a polysaccharide of glycosaminoglycan class, which consists of repeating disaccharide units of iduronic/glucuronic acid and glucosamine residues with many biological functions. Many methods have been propos...Heparin is a polysaccharide of glycosaminoglycan class, which consists of repeating disaccharide units of iduronic/glucuronic acid and glucosamine residues with many biological functions. Many methods have been proposed for the detection of heparin, including UV-Vis spectrophotometry, the light scattering technique, HPLC and electro phoresis and flow injection analysis, etc.. But there are few reports about the detection of heparin by means of an electrochemical method. Electroanalytical methods are useful tools in bioanalytical chemistry because of their advantages, such as their instrumental simplicity, moderate cost and portability. The binding reactions of organic molecules with biomolecules such as DNA and proteins have been widely studied. In acidic solution, heparin is highly negatively charged due to the dissociation of the sulfate and carboxyl groups in its molecule, which can easily interact with cationic dyes. Based on this principle, in this work, a new electrochemical method for the determination of heparin was developed based on the interaction of heparin with brilliant cresyl blue（BCB）.展开更多
文摘Heparin is a polysaccharide of glycosaminoglycan class, which consists of repeating disaccharide units of iduronic/glucuronic acid and glucosamine residues with many biological functions. Many methods have been proposed for the detection of heparin, including UV-Vis spectrophotometry, the light scattering technique, HPLC and electro phoresis and flow injection analysis, etc.. But there are few reports about the detection of heparin by means of an electrochemical method. Electroanalytical methods are useful tools in bioanalytical chemistry because of their advantages, such as their instrumental simplicity, moderate cost and portability. The binding reactions of organic molecules with biomolecules such as DNA and proteins have been widely studied. In acidic solution, heparin is highly negatively charged due to the dissociation of the sulfate and carboxyl groups in its molecule, which can easily interact with cationic dyes. Based on this principle, in this work, a new electrochemical method for the determination of heparin was developed based on the interaction of heparin with brilliant cresyl blue（BCB）.
基金Acknowledgments This study was supported by grants from the China National Natural Science Foundation （Nos. 30430530 and 30571337） and from the Momentous Research Project of the China Ministry of Science and Technology （No. 2006CB944003）.
