Journal
BIOSENSORS-BASEL
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bios9010042
Keywords
bioluminescence resonance energy transfer; fluorescent nanomaterials; fluorescent nanobiosensors; quantum dots
Funding
- Western Graduate Research Scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) techniques offer a high degree of sensitivity, reliability and ease of use for their application to sensing biomolecules. BRET is a distance dependent, non-radiative energy transfer, which uses a bioluminescent protein to excite an acceptor through the resonance energy transfer. A BRET sensor can quickly detect the change of a target biomolecule quantitatively without an external electromagnetic field, e.g., UV light, which normally can damage tissue. Having been developed quite recently, this technique has evolved rapidly. Here, different bioluminescent proteins have been reviewed. In addition to a multitude of bioluminescent proteins, this manuscript focuses on the recent development of BRET sensors by utilizing quantum dots. The special size-dependent properties of quantum dots have made the BRET sensing technique attractive for the real-time monitoring of the changes of target molecules and bioimaging in vivo. This review offers a look into the basis of the technique, donor/acceptor pairs, experimental applications and prospects.
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