Rapid ultra-sensitive nucleic acid detection using plasmonic fiber-optic spectral combs and gold nanoparticle-tagged targets.
Gold nanoparticle-tagged
Nucleic acid
Plasmonic fiber-optic spectral combs
Ultra-low detection limit
Journal
Biosensors & bioelectronics
ISSN: 1873-4235
Titre abrégé: Biosens Bioelectron
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9001289
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Dec 2023
15 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
19
02
2023
revised:
24
08
2023
accepted:
28
09
2023
medline:
30
10
2023
pubmed:
6
10
2023
entrez:
5
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Nucleic acid (NA) is a widely-used biomarker for viruses. Accurate quantification of NA can provide a reliable basis for point-of-care diagnosis and treatment. Here, we propose a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG)-based plasmonic fiber-optic spectral comb for fast response and ultralow limit NA detection. The TFBG is coated with a gold film which enables excitation of surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and single-stranded probe NAs with known base sequences are assembled on the gold film. To enhance sensitivity of refractive index (RI) for sensing a chosen combination of probe and target NAs around the TFBG surface, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are bonded to the target NA molecules as "RI-labels". The NA combination-induced aggregation of AuNPs induces significant spectral responses in the TFBG that would be below the detection threshold for the NAs in the absence of the AuNPs. The proposed TFBG-SPR NA sensor shows a fast response time of 30 s and an ultra-wide NA detection range from 1 × 10
Identifiants
pubmed: 37797532
pii: S0956-5663(23)00661-9
doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115719
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Gold
7440-57-5
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115719Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.