title: Gas-phase detection of trinitrotoluene utilizing a solid-phase antibody immobilized on a gold film by means of surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy.
abstract: A multilayered biosensor was constructed and found to detect trinitrotoluene (TNT) in ppb concentrations in air both prior to and after detonation of TNT without use of a liquid phosphate buffered saline (PBS) superstrate. The biosensor surface was fabricated from a monoclonal antibody for TNT covalently bound to an 11,11'-dithio-bis(succinimidoylundecanoate) (DSU) self-assembled monolayer immobilized on a thin gold film bonded to a BK7 glass slide. The binding between the immobilized antibody and TNT antigen was detected using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPRS). Biosensor specificity for TNT was demonstrated with chemical homologues as well as against an unrelated explosive, RDX.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmund, Oklahoma 73034, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Noe
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Donnelly
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D005740:Gases / Q000737:chemistry; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014303:Trinitrotoluene / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D000906:Antibodies; D005740:Gases; D014303:Trinitrotoluene; D006046:Gold