Use of porous membranes modified with polyelectrolyte multilayers as substrates for protein arrays with low nonspecific adsorption |
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Authors: | Dai Jinhua Baker Gregory L Bruening Merlin L |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. |
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Abstract: | Coating of substrates with polyelectrolyte multilayers terminated with poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) followed by activation of the free -COOH groups of PAA provides a surface that readily reacts with amine groups to allow covalent immobilization of antibodies. The use of this procedure to prepare arrays of antibodies in porous alumina supports facilitates construction of a flow-through system for analysis of fluorescently labeled antigens. Detection limits in the analysis of Cy5-labeled IgG are 0.02 ng/mL because of the high surface area of the alumina membrane, and the minimal diameter of the substrate pores results in binding limited by kinetics, not mass transport. Moreover, PAA-terminated films resist nonspecific protein adsorption, so blocking of antibody arrays with bovine serum albumin is not necessary. These microarrays are capable of effective analysis in 10% fetal bovine serum. |
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