Dual Enzymatic Detection by Bulk Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence.

The combination of enzymes, as recognition elements for specific analytes, and of electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) as a readout method has proven to be a valuable strategy for sensitive and specific analytical detection. However, ECL is intrinsically a 2D process which could potentially limit the analysis of inhomogeneous samples. Here, we show how a bulk ECL signal, generated by thousands of carbon microbeads remotely addressed via bipolar electrochemistry, are implemented as a powerful tool for the concomitant ECL sensing and imaging of two enzymatic substrates. We selected two enzymes (glucose dehydrogenase and choline oxidase) that react with their respective model substrates and produce in situ chemical species (β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and H2O2) acting as coreactants for the ECL emission of different luminophores ([Ru(bpy)3]2+ at λ = 620 nm and luminol at λ = 425 nm, respectively). Both enzymes are spatially separated in the same capillary. We demonstrate thus the simultane...