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The detection of protein with high sensitivity and selectivity is of great important for protein fundamental functions study and clinic diagnostics. Sandwich assays have been developed for multivalent proteins detection and have been prevailing for decades in the field of clinical diagnostics and bio-detection. The sandwich assays usually give a high sensitivity and selectivity because of the usage of a couple of match recognition probe and signal probe. This chapter summarizes recent advances in the sandwich assays for protein detections with fluorescence as signal outputs. Different recognition or signal elements such as antibodies and aptamers and fluorescence signal reporters (organic dyes, nanomaterials, and conjugated polymers) are discussed in details in this chapter.
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Huang, F., Xia, F. (2018). Fluorescence Sandwich Assays for Protein Detection. In: Xia, F., Zhang, X., Lou, X., Yuan, Q. (eds) Biosensors Based on Sandwich Assays. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7835-4_3
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