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Anal Chem ; 77(8): 2643-8, 2005 Apr 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15828805

ABSTRACT

Preparation and characterization of europium(III), terbium(III), samarium(III), and dysprosium(III) polystyrene nanoparticle labels with lanthanide-specific fluorescence properties has been presented. Emulsion copolymerization of styrene and acrylic acid was used to synthesize uniform-sized nanoparticles approximately 45 nm in diameter. Europium(III) and samarium(III) lanthanides were chelated with 2-naphthoyltrifluoroacetone and trioctylphosphine oxide to dye the spherical particles, whereas terbium(III) and dysprosium(III) chelate complexes contained a newly synthesized ligand, 4-(2,4,6-tridecyloxyphenyl)pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid. The fluorescence properties of the four lanthanides-including a wide Stokes shift, a narrow emission peak, and long fluorescence lifetime-were retained despite the incorporation into the nanoparticles. Furthermore, the nanoparticles, containing more than 1000 lanthanide chelates, were detectable at label concentrations 3 orders of magnitude lower than the corresponding soluble lanthanide chelate labels. The applicability of the labels prepared was demonstrated by a heterogeneous sandwich-type immunoassay for human prostate-specific antigen, where the lowest limits of detection of 1.6, 2.4, 10.1, and 114.2 ng/L were achieved using europium(III), terbium(III), samarium(III), and dysprosium(III) nanoparticles, respectively. The spectral and functional properties of the lanthanide-embedded polystyrene nanoparticles developed here suggest that the technology is applicable for high-sensitivity multicolor assays.


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Lanthanoid Series Elements , Nanotechnology/methods , Chelating Agents/chemistry , Dysprosium , Europium , Fluorescence , Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry , Humans , Immunoassay/methods , Nanoparticles , Prostate-Specific Antigen/analysis , Samarium , Sensitivity and Specificity , Terbium
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J Agric Food Chem ; 52(1): 40-7, 2004 Jan 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14709011

ABSTRACT

Sulfa antibiotics (sulfonamides) are a group of molecules sharing the p-aminobenzenesulfonamide moiety. Sulfonamides are used in veterinary and human medicine. Sometimes, the meat or milk of medicated animals is contaminated with residual sulfonamides. Current analytical methods for sulfonamides are unfit for screening of food, because they are either too laborious, insensitive, or specific for a few sulfa compounds only. A rapid immunoassay for detection of all sulfas in a single reaction would thus be useful. Previously, we used protein engineering to improve the broad specificity of sulfa antibody 27G3. In this study, we improved the best mutant of the previous studies with site-directed mutagenesis. The new mutants recognized different sulfonamides with affinities sufficient for detection of all 13 tested sulfonamides below the MRL level. We furthermore demonstrated the functionality of one mutant in some real sample matrices.


Subject(s)
Antibodies/immunology , Antibody Specificity , Drug Residues/analysis , Food Contamination/analysis , Immunoassay/methods , Sulfonamides/analysis , Antibodies/genetics , Gene Library , Mutagenesis, Site-Directed , Protein Engineering , Sulfonamides/immunology
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Bioconjug Chem ; 14(4): 811-6, 2003.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12862435

ABSTRACT

Four 12-mer oligodeoxyribonucleotide sequences were immobilized to uniformly sized (50 microm) polymer particles through C5-tethered thymine and N(4)-tethered cytosine bases at four different sites in each sequence. The effect of the site of immobilization on the efficiency and selectivity of hybridization of the particle-bound probes was quantified by a sandwich-type assay based on a time-resolved fluorometric measurement of an oligonucleotide probe labeled with a photoluminescent europium(III) chelate directly from the surface of a single particle. Immobilization through a base in the central part of the sequence was observed to destablize the duplex more markedly than tethering through a terminal base. The effect of a one-base mismatch on the duplex stability increased with the increasing distance from the site of immobilization.


Subject(s)
Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes/chemistry , Nucleic Acid Hybridization/methods , Oligonucleotide Probes/analysis , Base Pair Mismatch , Binding Sites , Models, Chemical , Molecular Structure , Oligonucleotide Probes/chemical synthesis , Oligonucleotide Probes/chemistry , Particle Size , Sensitivity and Specificity
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