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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 73, Issue 21, Pages 5323-5327Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac010808h
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- PHS HHS [R01 14549-02] Funding Source: Medline
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A microfluidic device for conducting electrochemical enzyme immunoassays is described. The new lab-on-a-chip protocol integrates precolumn reactions of alkaline phosphatase-labeled antibody (anti-mouse IgG) with the antigen (mouse IgG), followed by electrophoretic separation of the free antibody and antibody-antigen complex. The separation is followed by a postcolumn reaction of the enzyme tracer with the 4-aminophenyl phosphate substrate and a downstream amperometric detection of the liberated 4-aminophenol product. Factors influencing the reaction, separation, and detection processes were optimized, and the analytical performance was characterized. An applied field strength of 256 V/cm results in free antibody and antibody-antigen complex migration times of 125 and 340 s, respectively. A remarkably low detection limit of 2.5 x 10(-16) g/mL (1.7 x 10(-18) M) is obtained for the mouse IgG model analyte. Such combination of a complete integrated immunoassay, an attractive analytical performance, and the distinct miniaturization/portability advantages of electrochemical microsystems offers considerable promise for designing self-contained and disposable chips for decentralized clinical diagnostics or onsite environmental testing.
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