Electrospin-coating of nitrocellulose membrane enhances sensitivity in nucleic acid-based lateral flow assay
Point-of-care biosensors are important tools developed to aid medical diagnosis and testing, food safety and environmental monitoring. Paper-based biosensors, especially nucleic acid-based lateral flow assays (LFA), are affordable, simple to produce and easy to use in remote settings. However, the s...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Analytica chimica acta 2018-06, Vol.1009, p.81-88 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Point-of-care biosensors are important tools developed to aid medical diagnosis and testing, food safety and environmental monitoring. Paper-based biosensors, especially nucleic acid-based lateral flow assays (LFA), are affordable, simple to produce and easy to use in remote settings. However, the sensitivity of such assays to infectious diseases has always been a restrictive challenge. Here, we have successfully electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) on nitrocellulose (NC) membrane to form a hydrophobic coating to reduce the flow rate and increase the interaction rate between the targets and gold nanoparticles-detecting probes conjugates, resulting in the binding of more complexes to the capture probes. With this approach, the sensitivity of the PCL electrospin-coated test strip has been increased by approximately ten-fold as compared to the unmodified test strip. As a proof of concept, this approach holds great potential for sensitive detection of targets at point-of-care testing.
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•Electrospin-coating PCL onto nitrocellulose membrane of LFA can control the flow rate.•Electrospin-coating increases sensitivity of nucleic acid-based LFA by 10-fold.•A proof of concept shows potential in highly sensitive detection of viral nucleic acids. |
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ISSN: | 0003-2670 1873-4324 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.aca.2018.01.016 |