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Surface Plasmon Resonance: New Biointerface Designs and High-Throughput Affinity Screening

  • Matthew J. Linman
  • Quan Jason ChengEmail author
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Abstract

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a surface optical technique that measures minute changes in refractive index at a metal-coated surface. It has become increasingly popular in the study of biological and chemical analytes because of its label-free measurement feature. In addition, SPR allows for both quantitative and qualitative assessment of binding interactions in real time, making it ideally suited for probing weak interactions that are often difficult to study with other methods. This chapter presents the biosensor development in the last 3 years or so utilizing SPR as the principal analytical technique, along with a concise background of the technique itself. While SPR has demonstrated many advantages, it is a nonselective method and so, building reproducible and functional interfaces is vital to sensing applications. This chapter, therefore, focuses mainly on unique surface chemistries and assay approaches to examine biological interactions with SPR. In addition, SPR imaging for high-throughput screening based on microarrays and novel hyphenated techniques involving the coupling of SPR to other analytical methods is discussed. The chapter concludes with a commentary on the current state of SPR biosensing technology and the general direction of future biosensor research.

Keywords

Surface plasmon resonance Microarray SPR imaging Protein-carbohydrate Protein-lipid Lectin 

Abbreviations

SPR

Surface plasmon resonance

kass

Association constant

kdiss

Dissociation constant

HEG

Hexaethylene glycol spacer

SNA

Sambucus nigra agglutinin

HMGA-2

High-mobility-group transcriptional factor

smGFM

Soluble green fluorescent protein

CaM

Calmodulin

KD

Equilibrium dissociation constant

KA

Equilibrium association constant

SELEX

Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment

ELISA

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

IE

Imaging ellipsometry

CBPs

Carbohydrate-binding proteins

tBLM

Tethered bilayer membrane

GM1

Monosialotetrahexosylganglioside

GC

Gas chromatography

VEGF

Vascular endothelial growth factor

SPFS

Surface plasmon fluorescence spectroscopy

PNAs

Peptide nucleic acids

klight

Photon wave vector

RU

Resonance units

SPRi

Surface plasmon resonance imaging

A

Analyte

SPs

Surface plasmons

E

Evanescent field

ERα

Estrogen receptor α

MEL

Mannosylerythritol lipid

RBP4

Retinol binding protein 4

ssDNA

Single-stranded DNA

GNP

Gold nanoparticle

PDMS

Poly(dimethylsiloxane)

LTP

Lipid transfer protein

IgG

Human immunoglobulin G

LC

Liquid chromatography

MS

Mass spectrometry

HRP

Horseradish peroxidase

TOF

Time-of-flight

GAG

Glycosaminoglycan

ksp

Surface plasmon wave vector

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Notes

Acknowledgment

The authors acknowledge the financial support from National Science Foundation (CHE-0719224).

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  1. 1.Department of ChemistryUniversity of CaliforniaRiversideUSA

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