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Amplified visual immunosensor integrated with nanozyme for ultrasensitive detection of avian influenza virus

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Nanotheranostics. 2017 Jul 8;1(3):338-345. doi: 10.7150/ntno.20758. eCollection 2017.
[h=1]Amplified visual immunosensor integrated with nanozyme for ultrasensitive detection of avian influenza virus.[/h] Ahmed SR[SUP]1[/SUP], Corredor JC[SUP]2[/SUP], Nagy ?[SUP]2[/SUP], Neethirajan S[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Nanomaterial-based artificial enzymes or nanozymes exhibit superior properties such as stability, cost effectiveness and ease of preparation in comparison to conventional enzymes. However, the lower catalytic activity of nanozymes limits their sensitivity and thereby practical applications in the bioanalytical field. To overcome this drawback, herein we propose a very simple but highly sensitive, specific and low-cost dual enhanced colorimetric immunoassay for avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. 3,3?,5,5?- Tetramethylbenzidine (TMBZ) was used as a reducing agent to produce gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) with blue colored solution from a viral target-specific antibody-gold ion mixture at first step. The developed blue color from the sensing design was further amplified through catalytic activity of Au NPs in presence of TMBZ-hydrogen peroxide (H[SUB]2[/SUB]O[SUB]2[/SUB]) solution in second step. Hence, the developed dual enhanced colorimetric immunosensor enables the detection of avian influenza virus A (H5N1) with a limit of detection (LOD) of 1.11 pg/mL. Our results confirmed that the developed assay has superior sensitivity than the conventional ELISA method, plasmonic-based bioassay and commercial flu diagnostic kits. Proposed sensing method further showed its capability to detect viruses, avian influenza A (H4N6) and A (H9N2) virus, in blood samples with limit of detection of 0.0269 HAU and 0.0331 HAU respectively.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Avian influenza virus detection; Dual color enhancement; Gold nanoparticles; Peroxidase mimic

PMID: 29071197 PMCID: PMC5646732 DOI: 10.7150/ntno.20758
 
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