Plasma-Enhanced Antibody Immobilization for the Development of a Capillary-Based Carcinoembryonic Antigen Immunosensor Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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• 作者：Qiaoling Yu ; Xuefang Zhan ; Kunping Liu ; Hao Lv ; Yixiang Duan
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：May 7, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：85
• 期：9
• 页码：4578-4585
• 全文大小：516K
• 年卷期：v.85,no.9(May 7, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-6882

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In this study, antibody immobilization using a microwave-induced H₂O/Ar plasma pretreatment was achieved for the first time. Plasma was used to activate the surface of a capillary-based immunosensor by increasing the density of silicon hydroxyls and dangling bonds to ensure better silanization. The capture antibodies were covalently immobilized after the silanized surface reacted with glutaraldehyde and antibodies. A Cy3-labeled detection antibody was used in combination with the antigen captured by the immunosensor to complete the sandwich-type immunoassay, and the signals were measured using a laser-induced fluorescence system. Microwave-induced H₂O/Ar plasma pretreatment of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) immunosensor improved the antibody immobilization, and there was an obvious improvement in the linear detection range, i.e., 1 order of magnitude compared with a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). This novel immobilization method dramatically improved the detection limit (0.5 pmol/L CEA) and sensitivity. Assay validation studies indicated that the correlation coefficient reached 0.9978, and the relative standard deviations were <7% for all samples, with recoveries of 99.7鈥?07.1%. Furthermore, the immunosensor was applied successfully to CEA determination in actual saliva specimens with high sensitivity, acceptable precision, and reasonable accuracy. This enhanced CEA immunosensor based on microwave-induced H₂O/Ar plasma was demonstrated to be a sensitive tool for CEA diagnostics.