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. 2018 Feb 15;18(2):599. doi: 10.3390/s18020599

Table 2.

PDA vesicles for detection of hemolytic bacteria and toxins.

Composition of the Bilayer Nature of the Encapsulated Probe Type of Transduction Type of Hemolytic Bacteria Type of Toxin Toxin LOD nM Bacteria LOD (CFU/mL) Reference
Electrochemical detection
GLY-PDA/Fc-PDA/receptor ganglioside GM1 Amperometry E. coli E. coli Heat-labile enterotoxin 36 [36]
Phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol/ diacetyl phosphate/1-octadecanethiol hexacyanoferrate Amperometry S. pyrogenes A and C Streptolysin O 0.025
5 HU *
[35]
phosphatidylcholine 2,6-dichlorophenol/indophenol Amperometry L. monocytogenes NCTC 7973 __ __ 5 × 106 [37]
Phosphatidylcholine/2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol Amperometry L. monocytogenes NCTC 7973 __ __ 5 × 105 [37]
DPPC/cholesterol/TCDA hexacyanoferrate Amperometry P. aeruginosa PAO1
S. aureus USA300
Rhamnolipid
Delta toxin
11,000
29,000
[38]
Optical detection
Gly-PCDA/PC-DIYNE/cholesterol Colorimetry S. pyrogenes A and C Streptolysin O 0.10
20 HU *
[39]
DMPC/10,12-tricosadiynoic acid Colorimetric Salmonella enterica Bacterial supernatant 109 bacteria [40]
Glycopolydiacetylene Colorimetry E. coli
O157:H7
Shiga toxin 1.2 × 106 [41]
DMPE /DMPE /TCDA/cholesterol carboxyfluorescein Fluorescence P. aeruginosa PAO1
S. aureus MSSA 476
104 [42]
PCDA/TDER Colorimetry S. aureus (ATCC 6538)
E. coli (ATCC 11229)
Bacterial supernatant 108 (spiked apple juice) [43]
DPPC /cholesterol/TCDA /DPPE carboxyfluorescein Fluorescence P. aeruginosa Rhamnolipid 40,000 106 CFU/mL [44]
Hyaluronic acid/caprolactone 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin Fluorescence S. aureus hyaluronidase 47 U/mL [45]
Amine terminated PDA Colorimetry
Fluorescence
B. subtilis, P. aeruginosa surfactin 16,500 1.8 × 103 [46]

DMPC: 1,2-dimysristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphosphocholine; DMPE: 1,2-dimysristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine; DPPC: 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine; DPPE: 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine; Fc-PDA: N-(10,12-pentacosadiunoyl)acetylferrocene; Gly-PDA: glycine-terminated diacetylene monomer; GLY-PCDA: N-(10,12-pentacosadiunoyl)-glycine; GM1: ganglioside; LOD: limit of detection; PCDA: 10,12-pentacosadyinoic acid; PC-DIYNE: 1,2-bis(10,12-tricosadiynoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine; TCDA: 10,12-tricosadiynoic acid; TDER: N-[(2-tetradecanamide)-ethyl]-ribonamide; * HU (hemolytic unit) is defined as the amount of protein that causes 50% lysis of a 2% red blood cell suspension in PBS at pH 4.