title: Piezoelectric quartz crystal resonators applied for immunosensing and affinity interaction studies.
abstract: Piezoelectric quartz crystals serve as resonator-based transducers for direct and real-time monitoring of immunoaffinity interactions. The measuring system is briefly characterized; several examples for immobilization of antibodies are recommended. The piezoelectric immunoassays employing direct, competitive, and displacement-based formats are demonstrated on examples. The method for kinetic characterization of immunoaffinity interactions is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Skládal
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D017022:Flow Injection Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055617:Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers