Label free detection of plant viruses with organic transistor biosensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 281 ◽  
pp. 150-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Berto ◽  
Eugenia Vecchi ◽  
Luca Baiamonte ◽  
Carla Condò ◽  
Matteo Sensi ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arshak Poghossian ◽  
Melanie Jablonski ◽  
Denise Molinnus ◽  
Christina Wege ◽  
Michael J. Schöning

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel human infectious disease provoked by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Currently, no specific vaccines or drugs against COVID-19 are available. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment are essential in order to slow the virus spread and to contain the disease outbreak. Hence, new diagnostic tests and devices for virus detection in clinical samples that are faster, more accurate and reliable, easier and cost-efficient than existing ones are needed. Due to the small sizes, fast response time, label-free operation without the need for expensive and time-consuming labeling steps, the possibility of real-time and multiplexed measurements, robustness and portability (point-of-care and on-site testing), biosensors based on semiconductor field-effect devices (FEDs) are one of the most attractive platforms for an electrical detection of charged biomolecules and bioparticles by their intrinsic charge. In this review, recent advances and key developments in the field of label-free detection of viruses (including plant viruses) with various types of FEDs are presented. In recent years, however, certain plant viruses have also attracted additional interest for biosensor layouts: Their repetitive protein subunits arranged at nanometric spacing can be employed for coupling functional molecules. If used as adapters on sensor chip surfaces, they allow an efficient immobilization of analyte-specific recognition and detector elements such as antibodies and enzymes at highest surface densities. The display on plant viral bionanoparticles may also lead to long-time stabilization of sensor molecules upon repeated uses and has the potential to increase sensor performance substantially, compared to conventional layouts. This has been demonstrated in different proof-of-concept biosensor devices. Therefore, richly available plant viral particles, non-pathogenic for animals or humans, might gain novel importance if applied in receptor layers of FEDs. These perspectives are explained and discussed with regard to future detection strategies for COVID-19 and related viral diseases.


Sensors ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsukuru Minamiki ◽  
Tsuyoshi Minami ◽  
Yui Sasaki ◽  
Shin-ichi Wakida ◽  
Ryoji Kurita ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1026
Author(s):  
Elisa Chiodi ◽  
Allison M. Marn ◽  
Matthew T. Geib ◽  
M. Selim Ünlü

The importance of microarrays in diagnostics and medicine has drastically increased in the last few years. Nevertheless, the efficiency of a microarray-based assay intrinsically depends on the density and functionality of the biorecognition elements immobilized onto each sensor spot. Recently, researchers have put effort into developing new functionalization strategies and technologies which provide efficient immobilization and stability of any sort of molecule. Here, we present an overview of the most widely used methods of surface functionalization of microarray substrates, as well as the most recent advances in the field, and compare their performance in terms of optimal immobilization of the bioreceptor molecules. We focus on label-free microarrays and, in particular, we aim to describe the impact of surface chemistry on two types of microarray-based sensors: microarrays for single particle imaging and for label-free measurements of binding kinetics. Both protein and DNA microarrays are taken into consideration, and the effect of different polymeric coatings on the molecules’ functionalities is critically analyzed.


Author(s):  
Pamela Allison Manco Urbina ◽  
Marcello Berto ◽  
Pierpaolo Greco ◽  
Matteo Sensi ◽  
Simone Borghi ◽  
...  

Label free biosensors based on electrolyte gated organic transistors (EGOTs) are ultra-sensitive and versatile sensing devices. The dose curve represents the change of the sensor signal as a function of...


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1872
Author(s):  
Holger Schulze ◽  
Harry Wilson ◽  
Ines Cara ◽  
Steven Carter ◽  
Edward N. Dyson ◽  
...  

Rapid point of care tests for bacterial infection diagnosis are of great importance to reduce the misuse of antibiotics and burden of antimicrobial resistance. Here, we have successfully combined a new class of non-biological binder molecules with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)-based sensor detection for direct, label-free detection of Gram-positive bacteria making use of the specific coil-to-globule conformation change of the vancomycin-modified highly branched polymers immobilized on the surface of gold screen-printed electrodes upon binding to Gram-positive bacteria. Staphylococcus carnosus was detected after just 20 min incubation of the sample solution with the polymer-functionalized electrodes. The polymer conformation change was quantified with two simple 1 min EIS tests before and after incubation with the sample. Tests revealed a concentration dependent signal change within an OD600 range of Staphylococcus carnosus from 0.002 to 0.1 and a clear discrimination between Gram-positive Staphylococcus carnosus and Gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria. This exhibits a clear advancement in terms of simplified test complexity compared to existing bacteria detection tests. In addition, the polymer-functionalized electrodes showed good storage and operational stability.


Talanta ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 997-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Hu ◽  
Jing Tian ◽  
Hao-Ting Lu ◽  
Li-Xing Weng ◽  
Lian-Hui Wang

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document