Biosensors based on oxidative enzymes for
detection of environmental pollutants

• Authors: Georgette Rebollar-Pérez , José Campos-Terán , Nancy Ornelas-Soto , Alia Méndez-Albores , Eduardo Torres
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In recent years, the continuous and accumulative
discharge of toxic and contaminating compounds to
the environment makes necessary to propose precise
and quick methods for their detection and quantitation.
Especially when one considers that the environmental
impact of some of these emerging contaminants has
not been clearly determined. Enzyme-based biosensors
are an interesting alternative when inspecting different
pollutants present in the environment in a quick, efficient,
automatized, and economic way. Oxidative enzymes such
as peroxidases and polyphenol oxidases (laccases and
tyrosinases) are versatile and highly functional enzymes
used for analyte recognition. Therefore, these enzymes
are considered attractive and interesting biomolecules to
act as recognition elements in biosensors. In this regard,
detection of pollutants such as pesticides, phenols,
heavy metals, and pharmaceutical compounds by using
oxidative enzymes as recognition elements in biosensors
is a versatile field, and it is the focus of the present review.

Keywords

EN

enzyme biosensors; emerging contaminants; laccases; peroxidases

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Biocatalysis
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

14 - 8 - 2015

accepted

17 - 11 - 2015

online

21 - 1 - 2016

Contributors

author

Georgette Rebollar-Pérez

• Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Benemérita
  Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Edificio 100 C. Ciudad
  Universitaria, Puebla 72570, México

author

José Campos-Terán

• Departamento de Procesos y Tecnología, DCNI,
  Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa. México
  D.F., 05300, México.

author

Nancy Ornelas-Soto

• Laboratorio de Nanotecnología Ambiental.
  Centro del Agua para América Latina y el Caribe. Tecnológico de
  Monterrey. Monterrey, N.L., CP 64849, México

author

Alia Méndez-Albores

• Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad
  Autónoma de Puebla. Edifico 103 G Ciudad Universitaria. Puebla
  72570, México

author

Eduardo Torres

• Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad
  Autónoma de Puebla. Edifico 103 G Ciudad Universitaria. Puebla
  72570, México

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/boca-2015-0010