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Sci Rep . Ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein using large gold nanoparticle-enhanced surface plasmon resonance

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Sci Rep


. 2022 Jan 20;12(1):1060.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05036-x.
Ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein using large gold nanoparticle-enhanced surface plasmon resonance


Taka-Aki Yano[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Taira Kajisa[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Masayuki Ono[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Yoshiya Miyasaka[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 4 [/SUP], Yuichi Hasegawa[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Atsushi Saito[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Kunihiro Otsuka[SUP] 2 5 [/SUP], Ayuko Sakane[SUP] 2 6 [/SUP], Takuya Sasaki[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Koji Yasutomo[SUP] 2 5 [/SUP], Rina Hamajima[SUP] 7 8 [/SUP], Yuta Kanai[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Takeshi Kobayashi[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Yoshiharu Matsuura[SUP] 7 9 [/SUP], Makoto Itonaga[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Takeshi Yasui[SUP] 10 [/SUP]



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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has created urgent demand for rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Herein, we report highly sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (N protein) using nanoparticle-enhanced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniques. A crucial plasmonic role in significantly enhancing the limit of detection (LOD) is revealed for exceptionally large gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with diameters of hundreds of nm. SPR enhanced by these large nanoparticles lowered the LOD of SARS-CoV-2 N protein to 85 fM, resulting in the highest SPR detection sensitivity ever obtained for SARS-CoV-2 N protein.
 
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