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11 February 2011 Highly sensitive immunoassay of protein molecules based on single nanoparticle fluorescence detection in a nanowell
Jin-Hee Han, Hee-Joo Kim, Sudheendra Lakshmana, Shirley J. Gee, Bruce D. Hammock, Ian M. Kennedy
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Abstract
A nanoarray based-single molecule detection system was developed for detecting proteins with extremely high sensitivity. The nanoarray was able to effectively trap nanoparticles conjugated with biological sample into nanowells by integrating with an electrophoretic particle entrapment system (EPES). The nanoarray/EPES is superior to other biosensor using immunoassays in terms of saving the amounts of biological solution and enhancing kinetics of antibody binding due to reduced steric hindrance from the neighboring biological molecules. The nanoarray patterned onto a layer of PMMA and LOL on conductive and transparent indium tin oxide (ITO)-glass slide by using e-beam lithography. The suspension of 500 nm-fluorescent (green emission)-carboxylated polystyrene (PS) particles coated with protein-A followed by BDE 47 polyclonal antibody was added to the chip that was connected to the positive voltage. The droplet was covered by another ITO-coated-glass slide and connected to a ground terminal. After trapping the particles into the nanowells, the solution of different concentrations of anti-rabbit- IgG labeled with Alexa 532 was added for an immunoassay. A single molecule detection system could quantify the anti-rabbit IgG down to atto-mole level by counting photons emitted from the fluorescent dye bound to a single nanoparticle in a nanowell.
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Jin-Hee Han, Hee-Joo Kim, Sudheendra Lakshmana, Shirley J. Gee, Bruce D. Hammock, and Ian M. Kennedy "Highly sensitive immunoassay of protein molecules based on single nanoparticle fluorescence detection in a nanowell", Proc. SPIE 7908, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications VIII, 79080S (11 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874259
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KEYWORDS
Molecules

Particles

Nanoparticles

Proteins

Photons

Fluorescence spectroscopy

Particle systems

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