Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7233422 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 2014 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
An aptamer-based impedimetric bioassay using the microfluidic system and magnetic separation was developed for the sensitive and rapid detection of protein. The microfluidic impedance device was fabricated through integrating the gold interdigitated array microelectrode into a flow cell made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Aptamer modified magnetic beads were used to capture and separate the target protein, and concentrated into a suitable volume. Then the complexes were injected into the microfluidic flow cell for impedance measurement. To demonstrate the high performance of this novel detection system, thrombin was employed as the target protein. The results showed that the impedance signals at the frequency of 90Â kHz have a good linearity with the concentrations of thrombin in a range from 0.1Â nM to 10Â nM and the detection limit is 0.01Â nM. Compared with the reported impedimetric aptasensors for thrombin detection, this method possesses several advantages, such as the increasing sensitivity, improving reproducibility, reducing sample volume and assay time. All these demonstrate the proposed detection system is an alternative way to enable sensitive, rapid and specific detection of protein.
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Authors
Yixian Wang, Zunzhong Ye, Jianfeng Ping, Shunru Jing, Yibin Ying,