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Maleic anhydride and acetylene plasma copolymer surfaces for SPR immunosensing

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We report on the successful application of carboxyl-rich plasma polymerized (PP) films as a matrix layer for bioreceptor immobilization in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) immunosensing. Composition and chemical properties of the carboxyl-rich PP films deposited from a mixture of maleic anhydride and acetylene were investigated. Changes in the films stored in air, water, and buffer were studied and the involved chemical changes were described. Performance in SPR immunosensing was evaluated on interactions of human serum albumin (HSA) with a specific monoclonal antibody. The comparison with the mixed self-assembled monolayer of mercaptoundecanoic acid and mercaptohexanol (MUA/MCH) and one of the most widely used surfaces for SPR, the 2D and 3D carboxymethylated dextran (CMD), was presented to show the efficacy of plasma polymerized matrix layers for biosensing. The PP film-based SPR immunosensor provided a similar detection limit of HSA (100 ng/mL) as MUA/MCH- (100 ng/mL) and 3D CMD (50 ng/mL)-based sensors. However, the response levels were about twice higher in case of the PP film-based immunosensor than in case of MUA/MCH-based alternative. The PP film surfaces had similar binding capacity towards antibody as the 3D CMD layers. The response of PP film-based sensor towards HSA was comparable to 3D CMD-based sensor up to 2.5 μg/mL. For the higher concentrations (> 10 μg/mL), the response of PP film-based immunosensor was lower due to inaccessibility of active sites of the immobilized antibody inside the flat PP film surface. We have demonstrated that due to its high stability and cost-effective straightforward preparation, the carboxyl-rich PP films represent an efficient alternative to self-assembled monolayers (SAM) and dextran-based layers in label-free immunosensing.

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This research has been financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the project CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601). CIISB research infrastructure project LM2015043, funded by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, is gratefully acknowledged for financial support of the measurements at CF Nanobiotechnology.

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  1. RG Plasma Technologies, CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ekaterina Makhneva, Adam Obrusník & Lenka Zajíčková

  2. Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ekaterina Makhneva, Adam Obrusník & Lenka Zajíčková

  3. RG Nanobiotechnology, CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Farka, Matěj Pastucha, Veronika Horáčková & Petr Skládal

  4. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Matěj Pastucha & Petr Skládal

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Makhneva, E., Farka, Z., Pastucha, M. et al. Maleic anhydride and acetylene plasma copolymer surfaces for SPR immunosensing. Anal Bioanal Chem 411, 7689–7697 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-019-01979-9

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