近日，2023级硕士生丁颖和2022级硕士生刘建明在SCI一区期刊Bioactive Materials (IF=20.3)共同发表制备稳定的酶@共价有机骨架微胶囊的新策略：一种新的生物传感平台“A strategy to prepare robust enzyme@covalent organic framework microcapsules: a new platform for biosensing”。
原文链接：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2025.06.026
酶界公众号解读：Bioact. Mater. | 江西师范大学 |一种制备强韧酶@共价有机框架微胶囊的策略：生物传感的新平台
Abstract
Enzyme biosensors, despite their high specificity and sensitivity, are constrained by the inherent fragility of enzymes. Despite being considered ideal for enzyme protection by in-situ covalent organic frameworks (COFs) immobilization, the harsh conditions of COFs synthesis often lead to enzyme inactivation. Herein, a strategy was developed to prepare robust enzyme@COFs microcapsules (enzyme@MCCOFs) by the interfacial assembly of hydrophobic COFs spheres to form stable Pickering emulsions, followed by COFs regrowth to reinforce the microcapsules. Compared with conventional methods, this approach confines the enzymes in a mild environment, achieving an impressive encapsulation efficiency of 85.9%. Enzymes are protected from inhospitable conditions by the mechanical robustness of microcapsules COFs shell which also features adjustable pores to enhance substrate transport and exhibit size selectivity. The success of strategy was verified by the construction of enzyme@MCCOFs based on various hydrophobic COFs spheres (water contact angle>90º) with different pore sizes and degrees of functionalization, and they can be pre-modified to meet specific application requirements. The strategy is simple yet effective. COFs employed in this strategy only requires a slight degree of hydrophobicity, rather than specific functional groups. In addition, a formula was also proposed to predict and control the size of the enzyme@MCCOFs accurately. A cascade catalytic system based on enzyme@MCCOFs has been emulated for the construction of a colorimetric and electrochemical glucose biosensing platform. This study provides new insight into the construction of enzyme@MCCOFs and their biosensing applications.
Scheme 1. Schematic illustration of the synthesis process of GOx@MCCOF-1.