HriGFP fluorescentni protein: Izraz in aplikacije

Introduction

Enviromental pollution is one of the greatest global issues to this day and it keeps increasing at an alarming level which poses a great danger to human health. The greatest threats are in fact, industrial wastes and pollutants which are constantly released into the enviroment, including the pesticides that consist of organo-phosphorous compounds or either their derivatives [1]. Those pesticided are often used to increase the food production, even though the high amounts of it can have lethal consequences when it comes to human health or food safety. Since the proper remoting of agricultural areas have been problem for decades, because the usual methods like Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy or Liquid/Gas Chromatography are costly, non-portable and require specialized laboratories, scientist have come up with the idea of using cost-effective portable biosensors which could effectively detect the methyl parathion (one of the organo-phosphorous compounds) on spot [2].

Literature

[1] Saeed, S., Mehreen, H., Gerlevik, U., Tariq, A., Manzoor, S., Noreen, Z., Sezerman, U. HriGFP Novel Flourescent Protein: Expression and Applications. Molecular Biotechnology. 2020;62: 280-288.

[1] Gong, J., Wang, L., Zhang, L. Electrochemical biosensing of methyl parathion pesticide based on acetylcholinesterase immobilized onto Au–polypyrrole interlaced network-like nano-composite. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 2009;24: 2285–2288.