Abstract
In this study, the recognition mechanisms and affinities of a natural dihydropteroate synthase for 44 sulfonamides were studied respectively. Then the key contact amino acid Ser222 was mutated to Arg222 by using site-directed mutagenesis method to produce a mutant. Results showed that the binding energies and affinities for the 44 drugs were generally improved. Then this mutant was used as recognition reagent to develop a direct competitive fluorescence method on 96-well microplate for determination of the 44 drugs in milk. Due to the used signal amplified fluorescent tracer, the limits of detection for the 44 drugs were in the range of 0.025–0.65 ng/mL, and the sensitivities were improved for about 6–86 folds in comparison with the conventional fluorescent tracer. After comprehensive comparison, the present method showed generally better performances than the previously reported immunoassays for sulfonamides. Therefore, this method could be used as an efficient tool for the routine screening of sulfonamides residues in large number of food samples.
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