Flow-Injection.DeterminationofPhenols with Tyrosinase...
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Cllent. Anal. (Warsaw),44, 865 (1999)
Flow-Injection.Determination of Phenols withTyrosinase Amperometric Biosen.sor and Data
Processing by. Neural Network
by Marek TroJanowicz 1*, .AnnaJagielska2,. Piotr Rotkiewicz2
and AndrzeJKierzek3
Ilnstiiute plNuclear Chemistry and Technology, Analytical Chemistry Division,16 Dorodna, Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland
2DepartnlentplChemistry,·University ofWarsaw, ·l··Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw,· Poland3lnstitute 0.1 Bioche111istr,V and Biophysics pl Polish Acade/11Y o.lSciences,
5A PawiJlskiego, Sfr., 02-106 ~Varsaw, Poland
Key words: flow-injection analysis, phenol biosensor, neural network, tyrosinase,
environmental·.analysis
Amulti-melnbrane amperometric biosensor prepared with immobilized tyrosinase on a
platinum disk electrode in a large-volume wall-jet flow-through cell was applied for the
determination of phenolic compounds via flow-injection measurelnents. For data pro
cessing ofmeasurements carried out simultaneously with several biosensors ofdifferentselectivity using different membranes in three-component mixtures ofphenol , catechol
and 111-cresol,a three layer artificial neural network \\rith feedforward connections,
sign10idal transfer function and back propagation learning algorithm waselnployed. The
best functional parameters of the network were found to be 5 inputs, 3 neurons in the hid
den layer and 10000 learning cycles. For 36 samples analyzed the best correlation coeffi
cient values were obtained for catechol (0.96) and phenol (0.88). Results for in-cresol,which produced the slnallest an1p.eron1etric signal with all biosensors tested were onlysemi-quantitative (correlation coefficient 0.67).
* .Corresponding author.
866 M. Trqjan0 wic::., A. Jagielska, P Rotkielvicz and A. Kierzek
Do oznaczania wybranych zwi qzk6w fenoIowych w ukladzie przeplywowo-wstrzy
kO\vYln zastosowano nlembrano\ve bioczujniki enzytnatyczne z tyrozynazq, platynowq
elektrodq dyskowq i naczynkienl przeplywowytn typu wall-jet. P0111iary prowadzono
przy uzyciu kilku bioczujnik6w, w kt6rych r6znq seIektywnosc na fenol, pirokatechin~ i
111-kresol osiqgano przez uzycie r6znych tnctnbran. Do przetwarzania danych ponliaro
wych stosowano tr6jwarstwowq'sztucznq siec neuronOWq z nletodq wstecznej propaga
cj i. NajIepsze wyniki osiqgano przy 5 wejsciach, 3 nauronach w warstwie ukrytej i 10000cyklach uczqcych. Dia 36 anaIizowanych tnieszanin najIepsze wyniki osiagni~to dia
pirokatechiny (wsp61czynnik korelacji ze znanq zawartosciq 0.96) i fenolu (0.88).Wyniki dla m-krezoIu, dla kt6rego uzyskiwano najmniejsze sygnaly, byly jedynie
p6lilosciowe (0.67).
The idea of using an artificial neural network (ANN) as a signal processing tool,which lnilnics the processing and translnissionof signals in hlunan neural systeln isknown and realized in various fields of science and technology since forties [1,2]. Itsfast technological developlnent and an increase ofthe nlllnber ofvarious applicationsis observed since beginning ofeighties. The lnost comlnon application ofa neural network is its use as a cOlnputer software for the processing ofnUlneric data. Silnilarly tothe hlunanbrain the artificial neural network is cOlnposed ofneurons, which are individual units of the processing of inforlnation. The biophysical and chelnical processes that occur in natural neuron during processing of inforlnation, in the artificialneurons are reflected by weights i.e. nlllnerical coefficients which are used to lnultiply each signal prior to its translnission to a next neuron and by certain functions thatlnodify the signal. The weights deterlnine the extent of the stilnulation of particularneurons in a higher layer of the network and kind of inforlnation which will be obtained in the output layer. The lnost essential feature ofneural networks is their learning ability. Being able to lnilnic the hlllnan cognitive processes the neural networklnay be successfully applied to noisy, incolnplete and apparently inconsistent data.
Alnong a large variety of applications of artificial neural networks in variousfields ofscience and technology an increasing nUlnber ofapplications appears in analytical chelnistry. Fundalnentals and discussion ofearlier chelnical alld analytical applications of neural networks were already reviewed by several authors [3-5]. Theanalytical applications reported so far deal with the spectroscopic calibration andquantitation in near-infrared and UV-Vis spectroscopy [6], X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy [7] and Inass spectrolnetry [8], evaluation of analyte concentration frolnflow-injection analysis signals of a pH ISFET [9], the optilnization of lnobile phaseparalneters [10] and retention lnodeling in liquid chrolnatography [11]. Several reported applications ofneural networks were focused on processing ofsignals froln arrays of chelnical sensors, of which each produced a different response to analytes tobe deterlnined. The satisfactory resul ts in such a data processing was reported in siInultaneous Ineasurelnents with several ion-selective electrodes [12] and calibrationof an array ofvoltalllinetric Inicro-electrodes [13]. Several applications can be foundfor the arrays of gas sensors [14-17]. The use of a neural network allows as well thequalitative recognition of a given natural or cOllllnerciallnaterial [14,15], as the de-
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terlnination ofpartiGular analytes in gaseous Inixtures [15-21] . Recently, an applicationofthisdataprocessing has been reported for simultaneousdeterlnination of theconcentration of sulfur dioxide and relative hlunidity with a single coated piezoelec-\tric crystal [22] and signal diagnosis [23] and optilnization of response [24] in sequential flow analysis systelns.
The ailn of this work was to exalninewhether a siInple neural network softwaredeveloped· in our group can be used for the processing. of experilnental data inflow-injectionbiosensing systeln •for thedeterlnination of several phenolic COlnpounds in tnixtures. So far, in the field ofbiosensors,ANN were elnployed forevaluation·of flow injection signals fro In salnples with. changing pH in Ineasurelnents ofglucose and urea [25].
EXPERIMENTAL
Apparatus
The 111easurenlents were carried out in a two line flow-injectionsystenl (Fig. 1), vvhere the 11lain C0111
ponents .were a peristaltic. pU111p Isn1atec •• MP 13GJ4 (Zurich, Switzerland), a rotary injection valve
Rheodyne l11ode15020 (Cotati, CA, USA), avoltanl111ograph BAS 1110del CV-37 (W.Lafayette, IN, USA)
and a strip chart recorder Labographn1odelE 586 fro111 Metrohl11 (Herisau, Switzerland). Measurel11e11ts
were carried our with the three electrode syste111 and a large volul11ewall-jet detector with exchangeable
cap for Pt disk electrodes of3.0 nl111 dian1eter. A graphiterod was used as the auxiliary electrode and sil
ver/silver chloride electrode with saturated potassiul11 chloride solution was used as the reference.
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Reagents
Forthe preparation ofbiosen SOl'S the tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) ofactivity4200 unitshng frol11 Siglna
was used. Other reagents used were fron1 POCh (Gliwice, Poland). All solutions were prepared using tri
ply distilled water deionized \vith Waters Milli-Q systen1.
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For the immobilization of the enzyme a polyester Nucleopore melnbranes of a pore size 0.4 Jlm
(Pleasanton, PA, USA) ,vas used. A solution containing 2.5 mg lyophilized enzyme powder in 200 III O. I
mol I-I phosphate buffer pH 7.1 and 10 III ofa 250/0 glutaraldehyde solution was used to immerse the poly
ester membranes of4 mIn diameter for 24 hr at -5°C. The membranes were washed with phosphate buffer
and applied to the platinum disk electrode.
Flow-injection measurements
100 JlI samples"of solutions containing phenols were injected into the stream ofdeionized water and
lnerged with the stream of 50 n111101 I-I phosphate buffer pI-I 7.1 containing 50 mmol I-I hexa
cyanoferrate(II). Flow-rates in both lines were 1.0 ml min-I. The working electrode (biosensor) was
maintained at 0 V vs Ag/AgCI. An exan1ple of the recorded FIA signals are shown in Figure 2.
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Properties of tyrosinase amperometric biosensor
Due to the biocatalytic properties of the used enzylne, the alnperolnetric biosensor with tyrosinase responds with different sensitivity to various phenolic cOlnpounds(Fig. 3). The sensors can not be practically used for the selective detertnination ofa single analyte, but they can be utilized either for the detertnination of the sum of the detected phenolic compounds in a given Inatrix, which may be useful for environlnentalanalysis, or for the detection in HPLC with post-colulnn enzylnatic reaction [26-30].
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Anotherway to ntilizethetyrqsirtase biosensor in. spite of its limited selectivitymaybe to compose an array ofsnchbiosensors withadditional differentiationin selectivity and to elnploytheln inlnulticolnponentlneasurelnents with appropriate processing oftheexperilnentaldata..The additional differentiation of selectivity ofphenol biosensors can be achieved atleastin two different ways. One way is to use in
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Table 1. Menlbranes used in tyrosinase based anlperODletric biosensors for nlulticonlponentanalysis oflnixtures of phenols
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For each of these 5 biosensors Ineasurelnentsofthe alnperolnetric response in theflow-injection setup were perforlnedin 136luixtures containing three phenolic COlnpounds in different ratios in the concentrationrange froln 0 up to 100 ~t1noll-l . The results of hundred randolnly selected Inixtures were used as the input signals fortraining of the neural network. Theresultsof the other 36 Inixtur~s were treated assan1ples, for which the network after the training phase was used to predict (deter..lnine) ".unknown" concentrationsofanalytes.
Inthe case, where the signal of the biosensor is always equal to the SUIn ofsignalsofindividual ahalytes lTIultiplied by constant selectivitycoefficients independent ofconcentrations and constant in tilne, the processing of data froln Inultico111ponentlneasurelnentis llluch silllplerwith no need to use a neural network. 'The systelTI exaillined, however, is not that siluple as it is illustrated by the experilnental dataobt,fined forbiosensofswitha polypropylene membrane (Celgard2500) (Figs. 5-7).Figure 5 shows individual calibration plots with the largest sensitivity to catechol andthe sillallest for In-cresol. Linear calibration relationships were found for catecholand In-cresol, whereas phenol exhibits a non-linear dependence in the exalnined
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range of concentration. Figure 6 shows results obtained in two cOlnponent ll1ixtures,where the signal was Ineasured for increasing concentration of 111-cresol at differentlevelsofcatechol in the solutions. At the highest concentration ofcatecholone couldexpect the slnallestchanges of the Inagnitude of the signal with 0 concentration ofm-cresol, but this was not observed. Finally, Figure 7 shows the signal changes observed in three cOlnponent Inixtures in the presence of 1O(A} and 1OO(B)' ~unol r,tcatechol. The plots shown in Figure 7A, except for the region with the largest phe1101concentrations are according to expectations, whereas the changes plotted in Figure7B exhibit Inany irregularities. These irregularities observed for biosensors with different Inelnbranes were the Inain reason to elnploy the neural network for the processing of experilnental data in Inulticolnponent lneasurelnents with biosensors. Oneadditional aspect, that Inay COll1plicate the data processing in this systeln, is a slowdegradation in tilne of the biocatalytic activity of tyrosinase in the biosensor used.
Data processing by artificial neural network
The investigated here analytical case with enzylnatic biosensors, froln the pointof view of data processing is a cOlnplex non-linear systeln. The used ar~hitectureofneural network in this study is a typical three layer perceptron with one hidden layer.In a prelilninary attelnpt several different configurations ofneural network have been .tested. ANN with linear hidden and output layers was not able to learn of given caribration data. Satisfactory results have not been obtained also for AN'N with 110nlinear hidden and output layers, for which training process was very slow regardlessvarious ways of scaling training data.
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The best results have been obtained with non-linear hidden layer and linear out
put layer. The software used in this study for data processing was progratTIlTIed in Clanguage for IBM PC 486DX C0111puter and it was used successfully earlier for the interpretation of spectroscopic data [32]. In the neural network feedforward· connec
tions of neurons were used, signal was lllodified.by sigtTIoidal transfer function and
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backpropagation learning algorithlll was used. Three-layer network design was applied \-vith architecture shown in Figure 8. In each layer the nlunber ofneurons can bechanged. In this study 5 or 3 inputs corresponded to 5 or 3 biosensors, whereas 3 outputs to 3 species to be deterlnined. The behavior of the network is approxilnated byadjustlnent of the weights of the connections in the network, which is the learningphase for the network. It starts frOin randolnly initialized weight factors. Using 100Inixtures as standards for the 'learning network and 36 Inixtures as unknown salnples,the effect of several operating paralneters such as nUlnber of learning cycles (nlunberof iterations of the aigorithin over the cOlnplete training set) and rate of learning andrllunber of neurons in the hidden layer were exalnined. Also the effect of decrease ofnlunber of inputs frOITI 5 to 3 was
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The obtained results for the detern1ination of 3 phenols in 36 salnples were analyzed in terlllS of lnean relative error of deterlnination of a given analyte in all SalTIpIes, nUlnber of results showing different range of absolute deviation froIll aillount
taken and correlation with alnount taken.Practically no effect was observed in the obtained results regarding nUlnber of
neurons in the hidden layer between 3 and 10, therefore the lnost data processing wascarried out with 3 neurons. Silnilarly no influence vtlas found for different rate oflearning, which was paralnetrized in the range [roill 0.25 to 1.0, and IllOSt often 0.5
was used. The quality of learning was exainined for different non-linearity ofhiddenneurons by changing the slope coefficient for SiglTIoids froin 0.5 to 2.0. The best results were found for values close to 1.0. Certain ilnprovelnent of learning was also
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found for Iogarithlnic scaling oftraining data according to expression x == In (x + 0.1).The effect ofnulnber of learning cycles in the range froin 100 to 100000 for the net"vork with 3 neurons in the hidden layer on nlunber of erroneous results was exalnined. Generally the best results were always obtained for catechol and the worst onesfor 111-cresol, which follows the sequence ofsensitivities to these species ofahnost allbiosensors exalnined. The selection of such a criterion is arbitrary, but it SeelTIS to be
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satisfactory and realistic for the cOluparison ofresultsfrolu analytical pointofview.As the best results were assluued those obtained for 10000 epochs, although fornt-cresol better results were obtained for 100 epochs. The increase of nUlnber of ep
ochs up to 100000 results in evidently \Norseperforl1lanCe,\vhich is known asover-training of network (overfitting). [5].
A cOlnparison of the results for thesystelll with5 to 3 inputs and variable nunlberof learning cycles is shown by histogralus of the l1lean relative error ofdeterIninationfor each analyte (Fig. 9). In the best configuration with 10000 epochs the error for 5input systern is almost half of that for 3 inputs, except m-cresol,for which errors inboth syste111s were bet\veen 60 and 90%. In the best c~se the luean.relative error vvas35 and 32 % for phenol and catechol, respectively. It is worse result than that reportedfor nlulticoluponentdetenuinations with ion-selective electrodes [12], however, is_comparable to the resultsobtaihed for the determination oftwocornponents inthreecOluponent systelu in X-ray fluorescence spectros.copy; th.en observed errors r~ngedbetween 20 and 290/0 [7].
The correlation.plots obtained foreachanalytea.tthe.optimizedparameters of"data processing are shown in Figure 1o. The valu.es of the correlation coefficients
were 0.88,0.96 and' 0.67 for phenol, catechol and 111-C~esor, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
The obtained results of data processing by artificial. neural network, except
catechol, can not be considered as fully satisfactory. Ai1alyticaldeterll1inations C,lr
ried out with such accuracy should be considered as seluiqual1titative, only. T'hey arealso not sufficient to provide- a conclusive diagnosis about the l1lain causes of the observed errors in predictions of concentrations by neural network. It is quite probableth~t essential contribution to these effects COlnes [roin the li11lited stability of re-
I sponse ofbiosensors in tinle and toosluall differentiation of the used biosensors indleir sensiti\[ify to particular analytes. The iluprovcnlent of stability· should besearched inalilodificatiol1 of procedure of enzyn1e ilunlobilization, whereas luoresuitable differentiation of sensitivity by,. for instance, coilun10bilization of variousenzynles, luentionedabove.
It is also an open question, whether the neural network used in this investigati'onhas the OptilTIU1TI topology. and transfer function for this pllrpose. In this study alsofOUf layer ANN was applied (with two hidden layers), but such architecture has notprovided iluprovenlent, and additionally learning process was slower than for threelayer ANN. Another essential factor is whether the nUlnber of training data is suffi
ciently large and properl~selected.In certain applications the l1luuber of objects intraining set was up to 32000 [4]. In the sanle review on chelnical applications ofneu- .
ral networks one can find, that percent of agreeluent or prediction ability for 11105tcases \vas reported in the range frol11 60 to 90, which is close to the results obtained in
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this study. Silnilarly to many other applications, it seelns that also in the case ofarraysof biosensors of differentiated selectivities the use of neural networks opens widepossibilities of their practical analytical application.
Acknowledgment
This work vvas partly supported by COPERNICUS Project, No. CIPA-CT94-0231,/;YJn1 European Conz111unity and the University o.lWarsaw grant BST - 623/9/99.
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