Electrochemical determination of oxidative damaged DNA with high sensitivity and stability using a nanocarbon film

Anal Sci. 2011;27(7):703. doi: 10.2116/analsci.27.703.

Abstract

We describe the electrochemical determination of oxidative damaged DNA by using a nanocarbon film electrode combined with a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system. The nanocarbon film was formed by employing the electron cyclotron resonance sputtering method, and has a nano-crystalline sp(2) and sp(3) mixed bond structure with an atomically flat surface. This film electrode provided the high electrode activity and stability needed to quantitatively detect oxidative damaged DNA, 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), by direct electrochemical oxidation. The coefficient of variation (C.V.) value of 1 µM 8-OHdG at our film electrode was 0.75% (n = 12), which constitutes superior reproducibility to that of a conventional glassy carbon (GC) electrode (9.28%, n = 12) in flow-injection analysis. This was because the nanocarbon film suppressed fouling for the oxidized product of 8-OHdG owing to its hydrophilically ultraflat and chemically stable surface. We also investigated the performance of HPLC with an electrochemical detection (HPLC-ECD) system using our nanocarbon film electrode. The detection limit for 8-OHdG at the nanocarbon film electrode was 3 nM, which was superior to the detection limit of the GC electrode (7.2 nM). Furthermore, this electrode was more suitable for use in a urinary 8-OHdG experiment than the GC electrode. The concentration of urinary 8-OHdG in the urinary sample was 8.30 nM. These results indicate that this HPLC-ECD system with our nanocarbon film electrode enables us to realize an accurate, sensitive, reproducible and easy to use analysis technique.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 8-Hydroxy-2'-Deoxyguanosine
  • Adult
  • Carbon / chemistry*
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • DNA / genetics*
  • DNA / metabolism*
  • DNA Damage*
  • Deoxyguanosine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Deoxyguanosine / analysis
  • Deoxyguanosine / chemistry
  • Deoxyguanosine / metabolism
  • Deoxyguanosine / urine
  • Electrochemistry / methods*
  • Electrodes
  • Female
  • Glass / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Oxidation-Reduction

Substances

  • Carbon
  • 8-Hydroxy-2'-Deoxyguanosine
  • DNA
  • Deoxyguanosine