Ligand Enabling Visible Wavelength Excitation of Europium(III) for Fluoroimmunoassays in Aqueous Micellar Solutions

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• 作者：Timo Valta ; Eeva-Maija Puputti ; Iko Hypp盲nen ; Jouko Kankare ; Harri Takalo ; Tero Soukka
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September 18, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：84
• 期：18
• 页码：7708-7712
• 全文大小：242K
• 年卷期：v.84,no.18(September 18, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

Fluorescent reporters based on lanthanide ions, such as europium chelates, enable highly sensitive detection in immunoassays and other ligand binding assays. Unfortunately they normally require UV-excitation produced by a xenon flash or nitrogen laser light source. In order to use modern solid state excitation sources such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), these reporters need to be excited at wavelengths longer than 365 nm, where high-powered ultraviolet LEDs are available. A novel ligand, 9-ethyl-3,6-bis(5鈥?5鈥?5鈥?4鈥?4鈥?pentafluoro-1鈥?3鈥?dioxopentyl)carbazole (bdc), was synthesized to efficiently excite europium(III) at wavelengths up to 450 nm in micellar solutions, and its performance was compared to a commercially available DELFIA enhancement solution. The detection limit of Eu(III) with the bdc-ligand using 365 nm excitation was determined to be 63 fM, which is 3 times lower than with the DELFIA solution. The bdc-ligand enabled sensitive detection of europium(III) ions in solution using 365 nm excitation and displayed similar sensitivity and functionality as commercially available DELFIA enhancement solution. Therefore, this novel enhancement solution might be a feasible alternative in producing time-resolved fluorescence under LED-excitation.