Cross-Correlation of Optical Microcavity Biosensor Response with Immobilized Enzyme Activity. Insights into Biosensor Sensitivity
- 9 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 77 (10), 3222-3230
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac048144+
Abstract
Porous silicon multilayer structures have remarkable optical and morphological properties that can be exploited for biosensing. In particular, a high internal surface area (>100 m2/cm3) and a linear response profile to changes in the dielectric environment enable fabrication of sensitive devices and a straightforward quantitation of the optical response. These essential operating characteristics are illustrated for p+ mesoporous silicon (pore diameter 15−20 nm) optical microcavities. A series of devices were prepared to permit the immobilization of glutathione-S-transferase (∼50 kDa) within the porous matrix. Enzyme activity was exploited as an indirect means to quantitate the amount of protein immobilized. Activity was positively correlated with the optical sensor response. However, at high enzyme load the activity becomes nonlinear while the microcavity response remains linear. These data were used to determine the transduction limit (minimum amount of protein required to transduce an optical response), which is reported as areal mass sensitivity ranging between 50 and 250 pg/mm2. This value is considered in context with the dynamic range of the bulk sensitivity, defined as the magnitude of the wavelength shift per refractive index unit, which was measured as a function of microcavity design parameters. This work has uncovered key parameters that can be tuned to improve the detection limit of this sensor modality. Because of the ever increasing number of emerging new biosensor technologies, defining sensor detection limits has become an ambiguous topic and a need exists to standardize measurements and sensitivity units. For chip-based devices, it seems appropriate to report sensitivity in terms of the minimum number of grams of bound target per surface area.Keywords
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