title: Electrochemical investigations of the interaction of C-reactive protein (CRP) with a CRP antibody chemically immobilized on a gold surface.
abstract: A possibility of using a range of dc and ac electrochemical techniques to probe associative interactions of C-reactive protein (CRP) with CRP antibody (aCRP) immobilized on a gold electrode surface was investigated. It was demonstrated that the investigated electrochemical techniques can be used efficiently to probe these interactions over a wide CRP concentration range, from 1.15 x 10(-5) to 1.15 mg L(-1). The measured sensitivity of the techniques is in the following decreasing order: differential pulse voltammetry, charge-transfer resistance obtained from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and double-layer capacitance deduced from EIS measurements which gave the poorest sensitivity. Measurements of kinetic parameters demonstrated that the associative interactions of CRP with the immobilized aCRP reached quasi-equilibrium after 20-30 min. The kinetics of these interactions was modeled successfully using a two-step kinetic model. In this model, the first step represents reversible CRP-aCRP associative-dissociative interactions, while the second step represents the irreversible transformation of the bound CRP into a thermodynamically stable configuration. It was demonstrated that the thermodynamically stable configuration of CRP starts prevailing after 7 min of interaction of CRP with the immobilized aCRP.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, 3610 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B2, Canada.
authors.forename: Hooman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hennessey
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Afara
authors.forename: Sasha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Omanovic
authors.forename: Ante L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Padjen
mesh_terms: D055910:Antibodies, Immobilized / Q000737:chemistry*; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D055910:Antibodies, Immobilized; D006046:Gold; D002097:C-Reactive Protein