Whole Cell Biosensor Using Anabaena torulosa with Optical Transduction for Environmental Toxicity Evaluation

Table 2

Lowest limits of detection of several whole cell-based biosensors.

Organism	Transducer	Lowest limit of detection µg/L					Reference
		Cu	Cd	Pb	2,4-D	Chlorpyrifos
C. vulgaris	Optical				1		Frense et al. [28]
Spirulina subsalsa	Amperometric	100					Campanella et al. [29]
Recombinant Escherichia coli	Optical				1200		Strachan et al. [16]
C. vulgaris	Optical		100	10			Durrieu and Tran-Minh [30]
C. vulgaris	Amperometric		10				Chouteau et al. [7]
A. torulosa	Amperometric	300					Chay et al. [11]
E. coli	Amperometric	1000					Wang et al. [31]
Recombinant Tetrahymena thermophila	Optical	95.00	0.56	10.36			Amaro et al. [32]
A. torulosa	Optical	1.195	0.100	0.027	0.025	0.025	This work