Advances in Analytical Chemistry

Advances in Analytical Chemistry is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge in all branches of analytical chemistry. The journal publishes features and news articles about major advances, trends, and challenges in analytical chemistry. These articles include peer-reviewed features written by researchers and news stories that discuss novel analytical concepts and instruments.


Hedayatollah Ghourchian

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Analytical Chemistry

Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Iran

Research Areas

"Biosensors and Bioelectrochemistry

Education

1992-1995Ph.D.Biophysical Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
1985-1988M.ScDept. Chem., Graduate School of Science, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran
1976-1985B.Sc.Dept. Chem., Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Experience

2009-presentProfessor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2004-2009Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
1995-2004Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Pourang N, Dennis JH, Ghoorchian H. Distribution of heavy metals in Penaeus semisulcatus from Persian Gulf and possible role of metallothionein in their redistribution during storage. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Environmental Monitoring and Assesment (2005) 100: 71-88.
[2]  Hedayatollah Ghourchian* and Hosein Elyasvandi, Capacitively-Induced Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis: A Novel Methodfor DNA Separation, Medical Engineering & Physics 27 (2005) 723-727
[3]  NavidMogharrab, HedayatollahGhourchian*, Anthraquinone 2-carboxylic acid as an electron shuttling mediator and attached electron relay for horseradish peroxidase, Electrochemistry Communications 7 (2005) 466-471
[4]  J. Hong, A. A. Moosavi-Movahedi, H. Ghourchian, M. Amani, M. Amanlou† and F.C. Chilaka, Thermal Dissociation and Conformational Lock ofSuperoxide Dismutase, Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vol. 38, No. 5, September (2005) pp. 533-538.
[5]  H. Tavakoli, H. Ghourchian*, A.A. Moosavi-Movahedi and F.C. Chilak, Effects of Paraoxon and Ethylparathion on Choline Oxidase from Alcaligenes Species: Inhibition and Denaturation,International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 36 (2005) 318-323.
[6]  Hassan Tavakoli, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Ali Akbar Moosavi Movahedi, Ali Akbar Saboury, Histidine and Serine Roles in Catalytic Activity of Choline Oxidase from Alcaligenes Species Studied by Chemical Modifications,Process Biochemistry, 41 (2006) 477-482
[7]  Jun Hong, HedayatollahGhourchian*, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Direct electron transfer of redox proteins on a Nafion-cysteine modified gold electrode, Electrochemistry Communications, Electrochemistry Communications 8 (2006) 1572-1576.
[8]  S. Hashemnia , A.A. Moosavi-Movahedi, H. Ghourchian, F. Ahmad, G.H. Hakimelahi, A.A. Saboury Diminishing of aggregation for bovine liver catalase through acidic residues modification, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 40 (2006) 47-53.
[9]  Navid Mogharrab, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Mehriar Amininasab*, Structural Stabilization and Functional Improvement of HRP upon Modification of Accessible Lysines: Experiments and Simulation, Biophysical Journal, 2007, 92: 1192-1203.
[10]  Jun Hong, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Saeed Rezaei-zarchi, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Shahin Ahmadian, Ali Akbar Saboury Nafion-Methylene BlueFunctional Membrane and its Application in Chemical/Bio-Sensing, Analytical Letters, 40: 483-496, 2007.
[11]  A. Molaei Rad a, H. Ghourchian*, A.A. Moosavi-Movahedi, J. Hong, K. Nazari, Spectrophotometric assay for horseradish peroxidase activity based on pyrocatechol-aniline coupling hydrogen donor, Analytical Biochemistry 362 (2007) 38-43.
[12]  SaeedRezaei-Zarchi, Ali Akbar Saboury, Jun Hong , HedayatollahGhourchian, ParvizNorouzi, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Mohammad Reza Ganjali, and Aisha Javed;A new method for determination of haemoglobin concentration by using bromide-modified silver electrode, Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. (2007) 47, (153-158).
[13]  Jun Hong, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Ahmad Molaei Rad, Direct electron transfer of horseradish peroxidase on Nafion-cysteine modified gold electrode, ElectrochimicaActa 52 (2007) 6261-6267
[14]  S REZAEI-ZARCHI, A A SABOURY, H GHOURCHIAN, J HONG, A BARZEGAR, P NOROUZI, A A MOOSAVI-MOVAHEDI, M R GANJALIand A JAVED, Electrochemical investigation of the effect of some organic phosphates on haemoglobin, J. Biosci. 32(2), March 2007, 271-278,
[15]  H. Hanaee, H. Ghourchian*,A.-A. Ziaee, Nanoparticle-based electrochemical detection of hepatitis B virus using stripping chronopotentiometry,Analytical Biochemistry 370 (2007) 195-200.
[16]  S. Rezaei-Zarchi, A. A. Saboury, J. Hong, P. Norouzi, A. B. Moghaddam, H. Ghourchian, M. R. Ganjali, A. A. Moosavi-Movahedi, A. Javed, and A. Mohammadian, Electrochemical Behavior of Redox Proteins Immobilized on Nafion-Riboflavin Modified Gold Electrode, Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2007, Vol. 28, No. 12
[17]  Saeed Rezaei-Zarchi, Ali Akbar Saboury, Parviz Norouzi, Jun Hong, Abolfazl Barzegar, Mohammad Reza Ganjali, Hedayatollah Ghourchian, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Aisha Javed and Abbas Ali Rostami, Electrochemical Recognition of Metalloproteins by Bromide-modified Silver Electrode-A New Method International Journal of Molecular Sciences2007,8, 723-735
[18]  A. Molaei Rad, A. Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, HedayatollahGhourchian, Nasser Safari, Jun Hong, ZinabMoosavi-Movahedi, KhodadadNazari, A.Akbar Saboury and P. RajabaliJamaat, Effects of substituted metal-free porphyrins in apo-horseradishPeroxidase, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2007; 11: 836-845
[19]  A.A. Moosavi-Movahedi, F. Semsarha, H. Heli, K. Nazari, H. Ghourchian, J. Hong, G.H. Hakimelahi, A.A. Saboury, Y. Sefidbakht,Micellarhistidinatehematin complex as an artificial peroxidase enzyme model: Voltammetric and spectroscopic investigations, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 320 (2008) 213-221
[20]  Hassan Shafiey, HedayatollahGhourchian*, NavidMogharrab, How does reorganization energy change upon protein unfolding? Monitoringthe structural perturbations in the heme cavity of cytochrome c, Biophysical Chemistry 134 (2008) 225-231
[21]  AzadehHekmat, Ali Akbar Saboury, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, HedayatollahGhourchian and Faizan Ahmad, Effects of pH on the activity and structure of choline oxidase from Alcaligenesspecies, ActaBiochemicaPlonica, Vol. 55 No. 3 (2008), 549-557
[22]  S. Hashemnia, H. Ghourchian*, A.A. Moosavi-Movahedi, Hassan Faridnouri; Direct electrochemistry of chemically modified catalase immobilized on oxidatively activated glassy carbon electrode, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, (2009) 39:7-14
[23]  Kamal Fatemi, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Abed-Ali Ziaee, Shahram Samiei, Hana Hanaee, Paramagnetic Beads Based Detection of Hepatitis-B Virus Using Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry, Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. (2009) 52, 221-225.
[24]  Sharareh Sajjadi, Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Hassan Tavakoli, Choline-oxidase as a selective recognition element for determination of paraoxon, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 24 (2009) 2509-2514.
[25]  Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, Hassan Shafiey,HedayatollahGhourchian*, Electrochemistry of Oriented Cytochrome c Monolayer onModified Gold Electrode and Its in Situ Denaturation inOrganic/Aqueous MediumAnal. Bioanal. Electrochem., Vol. 1, No. 3, 2009, 126-141
[26]  Sarah Maghsoodi, Zahra Gholami, HedayatollahChourchian, YadollahMortazavi, Abbas Ali Khodadadi; A novel biosensor using entangled carbon nanotubes layer grown on an alumina substrate by CCVD of methane on FeOx-MgOSensors and Actuators B 141 (2009) 526-531
[27]  ParvanehRahimi, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, HedayatollahGhourchian*, ParvizNorouzi, Mohammad Reza Ganjali,Ionic-liquid/NH2-MWCNTs as a highly sensitive nano-composite for catalasedirect electrochemistry,Biosensors and Bioelectronics 25 (2010) 1301-1306
[28]  MostafaShourian, HedayatollahGhourchian*, Biosensing improvement of horseradish peroxidase towards hydrogen peroxide upon modifying the accessible lysines, Sensors and Actuators B 145 (2010) 607-612.
[29]  Mostafa Shourian, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour,Hassan Tavakoli and Hedayatollah Ghourchian*, Dose Rate Determination of Gamma Rays Emitted by Thallium-201 and Technetium-99m Using a Modified Horseradish Peroxidase Based Bio-sensing System, J. Iran. Chem. Soc., Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2010, pp. 900-907.
[30]  Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, AbdollahNoorbakhsh, AbdollahSalimi, HedayatollahGhourchian,Sensitive Superoxide Biosensor Based on Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles, Electroanalysis2010, 22, No.14, 1599-1606.
[31]  H. Tavakoli and H. Ghourchian,Mono-Enzyme Biosensor for the Detection of Organophosphorous Compounds, J. Iran. Chem. Soc., Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 322-332.
[32]  MostafaShourian, Hassan Tavakoli, HedayatollahGhourchian*, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, Detection and dosimetry of gamma ray emitted from thallium-201 and technetium-99m based on chemiluminescence technique,Radiation Measurements, 2010, V. 45, P 906-910.
[33]  Seyed Ahmad Dehdast, HedayatollahGhourchian, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-pour, Alcohol dehydrogenase immobilization on functionalized carbon nano-tubes modified electrode, Journal of Paramedical Sciences (JPS) Summer 2010 Vol.1, No.3, P 23-26.
[34]  AbdollahSalimi, AbdollahNoorbakhsh, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, HedayatollahGhourchian; Direct Voltammetry of Copper, Zinc-Superoxide Dismutase Immobilized onto Electrodeposited Nickel Oxide Nanoparticles: Fabrication of Amperometric Superoxide Biosensor; Electroanalysis, 2011, 23, No. 3, 683-691.
[35]  SanazEmami, HedayatollahGhourchian*,AdelehDivsalar; Release of Cyt c from the model membrane due to conformational change induced by anticancer palladium complex; International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 48 (2011) 243-248.
[36]  Sedigheh Hashemnia, Shima Khayatzadeh, Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi, Hedayatollah Ghourchian; Direct Electrochemistry of Catalase in Multiwall Carbon Nanotube/dodecyl Trimethylammonium Bromide Film Covered With a Layer of Nafion on a Glassy Carbon Electrode; Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 6 (2011) 581-595.
[37]  MahboubehTasviri, Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, HedayatollahGhourchian*, Mohammad R. GholamI; Amine functionalized TiO2 coated on carbon nanotube as a nanomaterial for direct electrochemistry of glucose oxidase and glucose biosensing; Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic 68 (2011) 206-210.
[38]  ShararehSajjadi, HedayatollahGhourchian*,Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Poura, ParvanehRahimib; Accelerating the electron transfer of choline oxidase using ionic-liquid/NH2-MWCNTs nano-composite; J. Iran. Chem. Soc.,In Press
[39]  ShararehSajjadi, HedayatollahGhourchian*,ParvanehRahimi; Different behaviour of single and multi-wall carbon nanotubes for studying electrochemistry and electrocatalysis of choline oxidase; ElectrochimicaActa, In Press.
[40]  Hassan Faridnouri, HedayatollahGhourchian* and SeddighehHashemnia, Direct electron transfer enhancement of covalently bound tyrosinase to glassy carbon via Woodward's reagent K, Bioelectrochemistry, In Press.
[41]  ParvanehRahimi, HedayatollahGhourchian*,Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, ParvizNorouzi, Mohammad Reza Ganjali;A biocompatible nanocomposite for glucose sensing; International Journal of Electrochemistry, Volume 2011, Article ID 470607, pages 1-7.
[42]  Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, HedayatollahGhourchian*, ParvanehRahimi, Magnetic amine-functionalized carbon nanotube bearing glucose oxidase as a renewable biosensor for one step determination of glucose, submitted to Biotech.Appl.Biochem.
[43]  Hossain-Ali Rafiee-Pour, HedayatollahGhourchian*, KhadijehEskandari, Cysteine function in superosxide dismutase direct electrochemistry and superoxide anion sensing, ABEC, In press.