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BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 1504-1511Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.001504
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
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We experimentally demonstrate protein binding at the single particle level. A double nanohole (DNH) optical trap was used to hold onto a 20 nm biotin-coated polystyrene (PS) particle which subsequently is bound to streptavidin. Biotin-streptavidin binding has been detected by an increase in the optical transmission through the DNH. Similar optical transmission behavior was not observed when streptavidin binding sites where blocked by mixing streptavidin with excess biotin. Furthermore, interaction of non-functionalized PS particles with streptavidin did not induce a change in the optical transmission through the DNH. These results are promising as the DNH trap can make an excellent single molecule resolution sensor which would enable studying biomolecular interactions and dynamics at a single particle/molecule level. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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