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Design of Initial Biosensor for Measurement of Glucose in
Human Blood by Using Biocomputing Technology
Yuyi Chu
1
, Junzo Watada
2
, Ikno Kim
1
, and Juiyu Wu
1
1
Graduate chool of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University
Kitakyushu, Japan
2
Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract. Since biocomputing plays an essential role in the biological and
medical fields, the catalytic features of enzymes can be utilized in medical
applications as biosensor. In this study, we tried to build an enzymatic system
as biosensor equipment application to measure blood sugar with sequential
reactions of enzymes, which express logic output signals with latent
fluorophore as a reporter. The expected biosensor will analyze three molecules
sucrose, maltose and ATP existing in human blood, by adding some blood into
the system consisted of various enzymes. Sucrose and Maltose will be
decomposed into glucose; moreover, glucose and ATP have critical influence of
glycolysis which shows one crucial reaction of human metabolism. The output
signal was visualized by high throughput fluorescence that originated from the
long-wavelength latent fluorogenic substrate—Salicylate hydroxylase (SHL)
reaction. The experiment results of this research have showed the possibility to
determine the combinations of the three important components, by setting the
concentration of each input molecules to specific threshold values. Further
researches are required to find out the relationship between the specific
concentration and measure glucose results, especially in the medical field.
Keywords: Biosensor, Biocomputing, Enzymes, Blood Glucose, Forecast.
1 Introductions
Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which a person cannot produce enough insulin or not
response to the insulin induce multiple endanger syndrome. In this century, prevention
and therapy methods of diabetes have become a main issue of research as well as
several effective treatments have held in various aspects. However, there is no radical
cure for diabetes that transfers it into chronic disease that pushes medical investigation
into improving living quality of patients. Not only monitoring blood sugar but also
predicting its variation has ripen into the major subject influencing appropriate
decisions regarding treatment plan.
Biochemical computing is a branch of unconventional computing research that aims
to perform various computations by using biomolecules to mimic electronic computing
devices. Conventional computers and other electronic digital devices are based on