Magnetic micro/nanoparticle flocculation-based signal amplification for biosensing
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07.07.2016
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DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD, PO BOX 300-008, ALBANY, AUCKLAND 0752, NEW ZEALAND
Abstract
We report a time and cost efficient signal amplification method for biosensors employing magnetic particles. In this method, magnetic particles in an applied external magnetic field form magnetic dipoles, interact with each other, and accumulate along the magnetic field lines. This magnetic interaction does not need any biomolecular coating for binding and can be controlled with the strength of the applied magnetic field. The accumulation can be used to amplify the corresponding pixel area that is obtained from an image of a single magnetic particle. An application of the method to the Escherichia coli 0157: H7 bacteria samples is demonstrated in order to show the potential of the approach. A minimum of threefold to a maximum of 60-fold amplification is reached from a single bacteria cell under a magnetic field of 20 mT.
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The authors acknowledge TUBITAK (Project No: 114E886) and AGU BAP (2015-11) for financial support. Omary Mzava acknowledges TUBITAK for the scholarship (2215). The authors also thank Professor Cagri Savran from Purdue University for valuable discussions, Hulya Sarayli and Nurdan Yapar from City Control Lab for the valuable information about E. coli staining and capturing procedures, and Cengiz Gazeloglu for the discussions on statistical analysis.
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magnetic micro/nanoparticle accumulation, signal amplification, image-based detection, magnetic dipole-dipole interaction