Copper-Mediated Amplification Allows Readout of Immunoassays by the Naked Eye
Copper-Mediated Amplification Allows Readout of Immunoassays by the Naked Eye
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铜介导的扩增允许肉眼读出免疫测定结果
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201006025
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Jiang, Xingyu
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作者:
Qu, Weisi;Liu, Yingyi;Jiang, Xingyu
A new method of labeling antibodies for the colorimetric detection of immunoassays without using advanced equipment is described. Colorimetric detections are convenient and effective in many applications because the readout requires only human eyes. Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) are useful in colorimetric assays because the aggregation of solutions with low concentrations of Au NPs displays a clear color change. The aggregation of Au NPs in solution has yielded many assays,[1] including those for ions,[2, 3] small molecules,[4] DNA,[5, 6] proteins,[7] and cancerous cells.[8, 9] Advances in CuI-catalyzed tethering reactions, such as “click chemistry”[10, 11] in aqueous solutions at room temperature, have allowed for new types of chemistry for Au NP-based biochemical analysis.Our previous work shows that CuI-based click chemistry allows high sensitivity and selectivity [2] for chemical analysis. The fact that copper is used as a catalyst (a small amount of it is required for the reaction) ensures the sensitivity, and the fact that the reaction is orthogonal to most known chemical reactions ensures the selectivity. In the presence of CuII with sodium ascorbate as the reductant, Au NPs that have azideand alkyne-terminated groups undergo aggregation as the result of CuI-catalyzed click chemistry. At ambient temperature, this process can be monitored by the naked eye. This method is highly specific even in the presence of high concentrations of mixtures of other cations and interfering molecules. We reasoned that if such assays can be extended to detect species other than CuII, it might be generally useful for many different types of highly sensitive and selective assays. We now report a colorimetric immunoassay based on detecting CuII released from copper monoxide nanoparticle (CuO NP)-labeled antibodies as the secondary antibody, in place of the fluorescent dye-or enzyme-labeled secondary antibodies traditionally used in immunoassays (Scheme 1).