title: Electrical percolation-based biosensor for real-time direct detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB).
abstract: Electrical percolation-based biosensing is a new technology. This is the first report of an electrical percolation-based biosensor for real-time detection. The label-free biosensor is based on electrical percolation through a single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)-antibody complex that forms a network functioning as a "Biological Semiconductor" (BSC). The conductivity of a BSC is directly related to the number of contacts facilitated by the antibody-antigen "connectors" within the SWNT network. BSCs are fabricated by immobilizing a pre-functionalized SWNTs-antibody complex directly on a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and polycarbonate (PC) surface. Each BSC is connected via silver electrodes to a computerized ohmmeter, thereby enabling a continuous electronic measurement of molecular interactions (e.g. antibody-antigen binding) via the change in resistance. Using anti-staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) IgG to functionalize the BSC, we demonstrate that the biosensor was able to detect SEB at concentrations as low as 5 ng/mL at a signal to baseline (S/B) ratio of 2. Such measurements were performed on the chip in wet conditions. The actuation of the chip by SEB is immediate, permitting real-time signal measurements. In addition to this "direct" label-free detection mode, a secondary antibody can be used to "label" the target molecule bound to the BSC in a manner analogous to an immunological sandwich "indirect" detection-type assay. Although a secondary antibody is not needed for direct detection, the indirect mode of detection may be useful as an additional measurement to verify or amplify signals from direct detection in clinical, food safety and other critical assays. The BSC was used to measure SEB both in buffer and in milk, a complex matrix, demonstrating the potential of electrical percolation-based biosensors for real-time label-free multi-analyte detection in clinical and complex samples. Assembly of BSCs is simple enough that multiple sensors can be fabricated on the same chip, thereby creating "Biological Central Processing Units (BCPUs)" capable of parallel processing and sorting out information on multiple analytes simultaneously which may be used for complex analysis and for point of care diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 21250, USA.
authors.forename: Minghui
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hugh Alan
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Bruck
authors.forename: Yordan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kostov
authors.forename: Avraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rasooly
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D055910:Antibodies, Immobilized; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D011817:Rabbits; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D055910:Antibodies, Immobilized; D004768:Enterotoxins; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; C031818:enterotoxin B, staphylococcal
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