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Optical Biosensors in a New Design

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Optical Biosensors in a New Design

Stefanie Ahl (Autor)

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ISBN-13 (Printausgabe) 3867273405
ISBN-13 (Printausgabe) 9783867273404
Sprache Englisch
Seitenanzahl 180
Auflage 1
Band 0
Erscheinungsort Göttingen
Promotionsort Mainz
Erscheinungsdatum 21.08.2007
Allgemeine Einordnung Dissertation
Fachbereiche Biologie
Schlagwörter Propagierende und lokalisierte Oberflächen-Plasmonen-Resonanz (p-/l-SPR); Schichtaufbau; Inverse Opale; Centrin; Transducin; Photorezeptor.
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Physicochemical experimental techniques combined with the specificity of a biological recognition system have resulted in a variety of new analytical devices known as biosensors. Biosensors are under intensive development worldwide because they have many potential applications, e.g. in the fields of clinical diagnostics, food analysis, and environmental monitoring. Much effort is spent on the development of highly sensitive sensor platforms to study interactions on the molecular scale.
In the first part, this thesis focuses on exploiting the biosensing application of nanoporous gold (NPG) membranes. NPG with randomly distributed nanopores (pore sizes less than 50 nm) will be discussed here. The NPG membrane shows unique plasmonic features, i.e. it supports both propagating and localized surface plasmon resonance modes (p SPR and l-SPR, respectively), both offering sensitive probing of the local refractive index variation on/in NPG. Surface refractive index sensors have an inherent advantage over fluorescence optical biosensors that require a chromophoric group or other luminescence label to transduce the binding event.
In the second part, gold/silica composite inverse opals with macroporous structures were investigated with bio- or chemical sensing applications in mind. These samples combined the advantages of a larger available gold surface area with a regular and highly ordered grating structure. The signal of the plasmon was less noisy in these ordered substrate structures compared to the random pore structures of the NPG samples.
In the third part of the thesis, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy was applied to probe the protein-protein interaction of the calcium binding protein centrin with the heterotrimeric G-protein transducin on a newly designed sensor platform. SPR spectroscopy was intended to elucidate how the binding of centrin to transducin is regulated towards understanding centrin functions in photoreceptor cells.