Quantitative control of poly(ethylene oxide) surface antifouling and biodetection through azimuthally enhanced grating coupled-surface plasmon resonance sensing
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- 作者：Agnese Sonato ; Davide Silvestri ; Gianluca Ruffato ; Gabriele Zacco ; Filippo Romanato ; Margherita Morpurgo
- 关键词：Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) ; Grating ; Biosensor ; PEO ; Kinetics ; Antifouling
- 刊名：Applied Surface Science
- 出版年：1 December, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：286
- 期：Complete
- 页码：22-30
- 全文大小：1954 K
文摘
Grating Coupled-Surface Plasmon reflectivity measurements carried out under azimuth and polarization control (GC-SPR 蠁 鈮?#xA0;0掳) were used to optimize the process of gold surface dressing with poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) derivatives of different molecular weight, with the final goal to maximize the discrimination between specific and non-specific binding events occurring at the surface. The kinetics of surface deposition of thiol-ending PEOs (0.3, 2 and 5 kDa), introduced as antifouling layers, was monitored. Non-specific binding events upon immersion of the surfaces into buffers containing either 0.1% bovine serum albumin or 1% Goat Serum, were evaluated as a function of polymer size and density. A biorecognition event between avidin and biotin was then monitored in both buffers at selected low and high polymer surface densities and the contribution of analyte and fouling elements to the signal was precisely quantified. The 0.3 kDa PEO film was unable to protect the surface from non-specific interactions at any tested density. On the other hand, the 2 and 5 kDa polymers at their highest surface densities guaranteed full protection from non-specific interactions from both buffers. These densities were reached upon a long deposition time (24-30 h). The results pave the way toward the application of this platform for the detection of low concentration and small dimension analytes, for which both non-fouling and high instrumental sensitivity are fundamental requirements.