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Sharmistha Paul1, Deepen Paul, George R Fern, Asim K Ray.
Abstract
The detection sensitivity of silver nanoparticle (AgNP)-tagged goat immunoglobulin G (gIgG) microarrays was investigated by studying surface plasmon resonance (SPR) images captured in the visible wavelength range with the help of a Kretchmann-configured optical coupling set-up. The functionalization of anti-gIgG molecules on the AgNP surface was studied using transmission electron microscopy, photon correlation measurements and UV-visible absorption spectroscopy. A value of 1.3×10(7) M(-1) was obtained for the antibody-antigen binding constant by monitoring the binding events at a particular resonance wavelength. The detection limit of this SPR imaging instrument is 6.66 nM of gIgG achieved through signal enhancement by a factor of larger than 4 owing to nanoparticle tagging with the antibody.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21325318 PMCID: PMC3119885 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0747
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Soc Interface ISSN: 1742-5662 Impact factor: 4.118