Natural Toxins Detected via Different Methods

A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651).

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Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100850, China
Interests: toxin detection; immunoassay; testing technology
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State Key Laboratory of Toxicology and Medical Countermeasures, and Laboratory of Toxicant Analysis, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing 100850, China
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Dear Colleagues,

Low doses of toxins can cause the poisoning or death of humans and animals. They are often doped in food processing, water, and other environments, and they also cause extremely hazardous events, which have become a worldwide public safety issue. Challenges of toxin detection include high sensitivity (due to the lethality of low-dose toxins) and the simple quick operation that prevents non-professional operators being harmed by toxins. At present, many toxins lack specific antigens and antibodies, and there is no effective clinical detection method. This Special Issue, Natural Toxins Detected via Different Methods, aims to provide different methods for the detection of natural toxins. It includes advanced immunoassays and the nucleic acid detection of toxin, the on-site and clinical detection of toxins, new detection technologies based on nano materials, etc. We hope that researchers will share their valuable research on the detection of toxins to open up unexplored areas.

Dr. Rui Xiao
Prof. Dr. Lei Guo
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Keywords

  • toxin
  • detection
  • immunoassay
  • nucleic acid
  • nanomaterials

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A Glycoprotein-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy–Lateral Flow Assay Method for Abrin and Ricin Detection
by Lan Xiao, Li Luo, Jia Liu, Luyao Liu, Han Han, Rui Xiao, Lei Guo, Jianwei Xie and Li Tang
Toxins 2024, 16(7), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins16070312 - 11 Jul 2024
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Abrin and ricin, both type II ribosome-inactivating proteins, are toxins of significant concern and are under international restriction by the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The development of a rapid and sensitive detection method for these toxins is [...] Read more.
Abrin and ricin, both type II ribosome-inactivating proteins, are toxins of significant concern and are under international restriction by the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The development of a rapid and sensitive detection method for these toxins is of the utmost importance for the first emergency response. Emerging rapid detection techniques, such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and lateral flow assay (LFA), have garnered attention due to their high sensitivity, good selectivity, ease of operation, low cost, and disposability. In this work, we generated stable and high-affinity nanotags, via an efficient freezing method, to serve as the capture module for SERS-LFA. We then constructed a sandwich-style lateral flow test strip using a pair of glycoproteins, asialofetuin and concanavalin A, as the core affinity recognition molecules, capable of trace measurement for both abrin and ricin. The limit of detection for abrin and ricin was 0.1 and 0.3 ng/mL, respectively. This method was applied to analyze eight spiked white powder samples, one juice sample, and three actual botanic samples, aligning well with cytotoxicity assay outcomes. It demonstrated good inter-batch and intra-batch reproducibility among the test strips, and the detection could be completed within 15 min, indicating the suitability of this SERS-LFA method for the on-site rapid detection of abrin and ricin toxins. Full article
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