• 文献标题:   Graphene Field Effect Transistor-Based Immunosensor for Ultrasensitive Noncompetitive Detection of Small Antigens
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KANAI Y, OHMUROMATSUYAMA Y, TANIOKU M, USHIBA S, ONO T, INOUE K, KITAGUCHI T, KIMURA M, UEDA H, MATSUMOTO K
  • 作者关键词:   electrochemical biosensor, immunosensor, clinical diagnostic, graphene, amyloid precursor protein, antibody variable region, fusion protein
  • 出版物名称:   ACS SENSORS
  • ISSN:   2379-3694
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tokyo Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1021/acssensors.9b02137
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Due to its high carrier mobility, graphene is considered a suitable material for use in field-effect transistors. However, its application to immunosensing of small molecules is still elusive. To investigate the potential of graphene field effect transistors (G-FET) as a sensor for small molecules with small or no charge, we applied the open-sandwich immunoassay (OS-IA), which detects low-molecular-weight antigens noncompetitively, to G-FET. Using an antibody variable fragment V-L immobilized on graphene and a hyperacidic region of amyloid precursor protein fused to the other variable fragment V-H, we successfully detected a small antigen peptide consisting of 7 amino acids (BGP-C7), with a more than 100-fold increase in sensitivity compared with that measured by enzyme-linked OS-IA. Furthermore, we succeeded in detecting BGP-C7 in the presence of human serum with similar sensitivity, suggesting its potential application in clinical diagnostics.