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Real-time, in situ DNA hybridization detection with attomolar sensitivity without amplification using (pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3)0.65–(PbTiO3)0.35 piezoelectric plate sensors
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Real-time, in situ DNA hybridization detection with attomolar sensitivity without amplification using (pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3)0.65–(PbTiO3)0.35 piezoelectric plate sensors

Wei Wu, Ceyhun E Kirimli, Wei-Heng Shih and Wan Y Shih
Biosensors & bioelectronics, v 43(1), pp 391-399
15 May 2013
PMID: 23356996

Abstract

Sensitivity Hybridization Detection DNA Real-time Piezoelectric
In this paper we have investigated real-time, in situ DNA hybridization detection using piezoelectric plate sensors (PEPSs) consisting of a highly piezoelectric lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) layer 8μm in thickness thinly coated with Cr/Au electrodes and electrically insulated with 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) encapsulation. With probe complementary DNA (cDNA) immobilized on the PEPS surface and by monitoring the first longitudinal extension mode (LEM) resonance frequency shift of the PEPS we detected hybridization of the target DNA (tDNA) to the probe cDNA on the PEPS surface in real time at concentration 1.6×10–18M with a signal to noise ratio of 8 without isolation and amplification at room temperature in 30min in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution. The detection was validated in situ by two different methods: (1) the detection of fluorescently labeled microspheres coated with reporter cDNA complementary to the tDNA but different from the probe cDNA; (2) fluorescent visualization. ► Piezoelectric plate sensor (PEPS) detects DNA in situ at 10−18M in 30min. ► PEPS detection is without isolation, concentration, and amplification. ► Attomolar sensitivity is validated in situ by reporter microspheres detection. ► Attomolar sensitivity is also validated by reporter microspheres visualization.

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