Label-free immunosensor based on gold nanoparticle silver enhancement |
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Authors: | Yang Minghui Wang Cunchang |
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Affiliation: | a Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 21250, USA b Department of Chemistry, Xiangnan University, Chenzhou 423000, China |
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Abstract: | A label-free immunosensor for the sensitive detection of human immunoglobulin G (IgG) was prepared based on gold nanoparticle-silver enhancement detection with a simple charge-coupled device (CCD) detector. The gold nanoparticles, which were used as nuclei for the deposit of metallic silver and also for the adsorption of antibodies, were immobilized into wells of a 9-well chip. With the addition of silver enhancement buffer, metallic silver will deposit onto gold nanoparticles, causing darkness that can be optically measured by the CCD camera and quantified using ImageJ software. When antibody was immobilized onto the gold nanoparticles and antigen was captured, the formed immunocomplex resulted in a decrease of the darkness and the intensity of the darkness was in line with IgG concentrations from 0.05 to 10 ng/ml. The CCD detector is simple and portable, and the reported method has many desirable merits such as sensitivity and accuracy, making it a promising technique for protein detection. |
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Keywords: | CCD camera Gold nanoparticles Label-free immunosensor Silver enhancement |
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