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Fluorescent sensory MIP (molecularly imprinted polymer) particles were combined with a droplet-based 3D microfluidic system for the sensitive and selective determination of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in water samples. 2,4-D being an important and widely used herbicide to regulate plant growth, its extensive use leads to food or ground water contamination. Analytical assays based on MIP have emerged as a valuable tool in the field of environmental analysis thanks to low production costs, stability, format adaptability and their ability to recognize a wide variety of targets, such as the critical neutral organic molecules present in water: herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, etc.
To accomplish this, a tailor-made fluorescent indicator cross-linker was designed that translates directly the binding event into an enhanced fluorescence signal. This phenoxazinone-type cross-linker was co-polymerized into a thin MIP layer grafted from the surface of silica microparticles. The latter was achieved by integration of the fluorescent core-shell MIP sensor particles into a modular microfluidic platform that allows for an in-line phase-transfer assay, extracting the analyte from aqueous sample droplets into organic phase droplets that contain the sensor particles.
This tool offering a novel simple and rapid way for the detection of herbicides, real-time fluorescence determination of 2,4-D down to 20 nM was realized with the system and applied for the analysis of worlwide surface water samples.
Online coupling of electrochemistry with mass spectrometry (EC/MS) is highly promising for prediction and simulation of metabolic processes of xenobiotics in living organisms. Less time and cost of analysis, matrix free detection, and automation make EC/MS-based metabolomics superior over traditional in-vivo and in-vitro methods. Furthermore, EC/MS has a special feature to identify reactive intermediates and reaction mechanisms.
The main objective of this work was to simulate biotransformation processes of pesticides by EC/MS and to elucidate the Transformation products (TPs). We have studied the oxidative phase I metabolism processes of selected pesticides by EC/MS or with liquid chromatography (EC/LC/MS) and compared the derived TPs with cytochrome based metabolites. The electrochemical TPs were produced by boron-doped diamond electrode, separated by LC, and detected by single quadrupole ESI-MS online. Structural identification of both electrochemical oxidation and liver microsome metabolites were based on accurate mass measurements by FT-ICR high-resolution mass spectrometry, isotopic pattern, MS/MS fragmentation, and Retention time alignments.
Main phase I oxidative metabolites by P-oxidation, N- & O- dealkylation, dechlorination, hydroxylation, and -OH- oxidation have been identified. Many targeted and untargeted metabolites have been identified by EC/(LC)/MS. Additionally, reactive species have been trapped online by biomolecules to study phase II conjugative reactions. Furthermore, we synthesized TP standards by EC/MS and applied them for pesticide's TPs occurrence investigation in foodstuf matrices.
Xenobiotics and their reactive metabolites are conjugated with native biomolecules such as glutathione and glucoside during phase II metabolism. Toxic metabolites are usually detoxified during this step. On the other hand, these reactive species have a potential health impact by disrupting many enzymatic functions. Thus, it is crucial to understand phase II conjugation reactions of xenobiotics in order to address their fate and possible toxicity mechanisms.
Additionally, conventional methods (in vivo and in vitro) have limitation due to matrix complexity and time-consuming. Hence, developing fast and matrix-free alternative method is highly demandable. In this work, oxidative phase I metabolites and reactive species of chlorpyrifos (insecticide) and fluopyram (fungicide) were electrochemically produced by using a boron-doped diamond electrode coupled online to electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Reactive species of the substrates were trapped by biomolecules (glutathione and glucoside) and phase II conjugative metabolites were identified using liquid chromatography (LC)-MS/MS, and/or Triple time of flight (TripleTOF)-MS. Glutathione conjugates and glucosylation of chlorpyrifos, trichloropyridinol, oxon, and monohydroxyl fluopyram were identified successfully. Glutathione and glucoside were conjugated with chlorpyrifos, trichloropyridinol, and oxon by losing a neutral HCl. In the case of fluopyram, its monohydroxyl metabolite was actively conjugated with both glutathione and glucoside. In summary, seven bioconjugates of CPF and its metabolites and two bioconjugates of fluopyram metabolites were identified using electrochemistry (EC)/MS for the first time in this work. The work could be used as an alternative approach to identify glutathione and glucosylation conjugation reactions of other organic compounds too. It is important, especially to predict phase II conjugation within a short time and matrix-free environment.
The employment of type-I pyrethroids for airplane disinfection in recent years underlines the necessity to develop sensing schemes for the rapid detection of these pesticides directly at the point-of-use. Antibody-gated indicator-releasing materials were thus developed and implemented with test strips for lateral-flow assay-based analysis employing a smartphone for readout. Besides a proper matching of pore sizes and gating macromolecules, the functionalization of both the material's outer surface as well as the strips with PEG chains enhanced system performance. This simple assay allowed for the detection of permethrin as a target molecule at concentrations down to the lower ppb level in less than 5 minutes.