title: The kinetics of analyte capture on nanoscale sensors.
abstract: This article presents a number of kinetic analyses related to binding processes relevant to capture of target analyte species in nanoscale cantilever-type devices designed to detect small concentrations of biomolecules. The overall analyte capture efficiency is a crucial measure of the ultimate sensitivity of such devices, and a detailed kinetic analysis tells us how rapidly such measurements may be made. We have analyzed the capture kinetics under a variety of conditions, including the possibility of so-called surface-enhanced ligand capture. One of the modalities studied requires ligand capture through a cross-linking mechanism, and it was found that this mode may provide a robust and sensitive approach to biomolecular detection. For the two modalities studied, we find that detection of specific biomolecules down to concentration levels of 1 nM or less appear to be quite feasible for the device configurations studied.
authors.affiliation: Condensed Matter Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. jerry@ieyasu.compbio.caltech.edu
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Paul
mesh_terms: D001704:Biopolymers / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers