Stable and sensitive SERS-based immunoassay enabled by core-shell immunoprobe and paper-based immunosubstrate

Autor: Guodong Wei, Hongmei Liu, Chenjie Gu, Tao Jiang, Ying Chen, Ziluo Su
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 347:130606
ISSN: 0925-4005
Popis: Aiming to augment the reliability and efficiency of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active immunoprobe, sophisticated strategies that are able to avoid the dissociation of Raman molecules and noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) in practice have drawn a considerable attention. This study confirmed that Ag@polystyrene-block-poly(acrylic acid)@Ag core-shell nanostructures possessed superior stability compared with bare Ag NPs in phosphate buffer saline solution and human serum. Combined with a unique paper-based immunosubstrate with a satisfying enhancement factor of 9.71 × 105, a robust sandwich immunostructure was constructed and conducted to monitor carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), presenting a low limit of detection of about 10−4 U/mL. With these exceptional features, such a proposed protocol was finally utilized to detect CA19-9 in several clinical human sera, which shown much higher sensitivity than the traditional chemiluminescence analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE