title: Development of a surface acoustic wave immunosensor.
abstract: In this paper the first application of horizontal polarized surface acoustic waves (HP-SAW) in LiTaO3 for an immunosensor is presented. A SAW device with two paths, a sensitive path and a reference path operating in liquid at 345 MHz, is used as the sensor. Antigens and antibodies were both immunoglobulins. The antibodies were immobilized via protein A on the sensitive path with a mass density of 0.4 ng/mm2, as shown by ELISA measurements. A theoretical detection limit of approximately 33 pg and a high sensitivity of 110 kHz/(ng/mm2) could be derived from the experiments. High signal enhancement factors of 4.5 and 12 are achievable by gold colloid labeled antigens with colloid diameters of 5 and 10 nm, respectively. Specificity of the antibody was demonstrated by a preabsorption experiment. As a further antibody/antigen system the binding of the anti-human serum albumin (HSA) to HSA was examined.
authors.affiliation: Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Angewandte Physik, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weisch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: von Schickfus
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hunklinger
mesh_terms: D000906:Antibodies / Q000737:chemistry; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D007120:Immunochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D007074:Immunoglobulin G