Preparation and characterization of a novel pyrrole-benzophenone copolymerized silica nanocomposite as a reagent in a visual immunologic-agglutination test

Pola Goldberg-Oppenheimer, Serge Cosnier, Robert S. Marks, Oren Regev

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Abstract

Biological sensing is explored through novel stable colloidal dispersions of pyrrole-benzophenone and pyrrole copolymerized silica (PPy-SiO2-PPyBPh) nanocomposites, which allow covalent linking of biological molecules through light mediation. The mechanism of nanocomposite attachment to a model protein is studied by gold labeled cholera toxin B (CTB) to enhance the contrast in electron microscopy imaging. The biological test itself is carried out without gold labeling, i.e., using CTB only. The protein is shown to be covalently bound through the benzophenone groups. When the reactive PPy-SiO2-PPyBPh-CTB nanocomposite is exposed to specific recognition anti-CTB immunoglobulins, a qualitative visual agglutination assay occurs spontaneously, producing as a positive test, PPy-SiO2-PPyBPh-CTB-anti-CTB, in less than 1 h, while the control solution of the PPy-SiO2-PPyBPh-CTB alone remained well-dispersed during the same period. These dispersions were characterized by cryogenic transmission microscopy (cryo-TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), FTIR and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1324-1331
Number of pages8
JournalTalanta
Volume75
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jun 2008

Keywords

  • Cryo-TEM
  • Gold labeling
  • Immunodiagnostics
  • Nanocomposites
  • Silica
  • XPS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry

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