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- Title
Highly sensitive label-free in vitro detection of aflatoxin B1 in an aptamer assay using optical planar waveguide operating as a polarization interferometer.
- Authors
Al-Jawdah, Ali; Nabok, Alexei; Abu-Ali, Hisham; Catanante, Gaelle; Marty, Jean-Louis; Szekacs, Andras
- Abstract
This work reports on further development of an optical biosensor for the in vitro detection of mycotoxins (in particular, aflatoxin B1) using a highly sensitive planar waveguide transducer in combination with a highly specific aptamer bioreceptor. This sensor is built on a SiO2–Si3N4–SiO2 optical planar waveguide (OPW) operating as a polarization interferometer (PI), which detects a phase shift between p- and s-components of polarized light propagating through the waveguide caused by the molecular adsorption. The refractive index sensitivity (RIS) of the recently upgraded PI experimental setup has been improved and reached values of around 9600 rad per refractive index unity (RIU), the highest RIS values reported, which enables the detection of low molecular weight analytes such as mycotoxins in very low concentrations. The biosensing tests yielded remarkable results for the detection of aflatoxin B1 in a wide range of concentrations from 1 pg/mL to 1 μg/mL in direct assay with specific DNA-based aptamers.
- Subjects
APTAMERS; AFLATOXINS; INTERFEROMETERS; REFRACTIVE index; MYCOTOXINS; MOLECULAR weights; TRANSDUCERS
- Publication
Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2019, Vol 411, Issue 29, p7717
- ISSN
1618-2642
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s00216-019-02033-4