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Anal. Chem. 2010, 82, 6782–6789<br />

Magnetic Nanoparticle Enhanced Surface Plasmon<br />

Resonance Sensing and Its Application for the<br />

Ultrasensitive Detection of Magnetic<br />

Nanoparticle-Enriched Small Molecules<br />

Jianlong Wang, Ahsan Munir, Zanzan Zhu, and H. Susan Zhou*<br />

Department of <strong>Chemical</strong> Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester,<br />

Massachusetts 01609<br />

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have been frequently<br />

used in bioseparation, but their applicability in bioassays<br />

is limited due to their extremely small size so that<br />

sensitive detection is difficult to achieve using a general<br />

technique. Here, we present an amplification technique<br />

using MNPs for an enhanced surface plasmon resonance<br />

(SPR) bioassay. The amplification effect of carboxyl group<br />

modified Fe3O4 MNPs of two sizes on SPR spectroscopy<br />

is first demonstrated by assembling MNPs on amino<br />

group modified SPR gold substrate. To further evaluate<br />

the feasibility of the use of Fe3O4 MNPs in enhancing<br />

a SPR bioassay, a novel SPR sensor based on an<br />

indirect competitive inhibition assay (ICIA) is developed<br />

for detecting adenosine by employing Fe3O4<br />

MNP-antiadenosine aptamer conjugates as the amplification<br />

reagent. The results confirm that Fe3O4<br />

MNPs can be used as a powerful amplification agent<br />

to provide a sensitive approach to detect adenosine by<br />

SPR within the range of 10-10 000 nM, which is<br />

much superior to the detection result obtained by a<br />

general SPR sensor. Importantly, the present detection<br />

methodology could be easily extended to detect other<br />

biomolecules of interest by changing the corresponding<br />

aptamer in Fe3O4 MNP-aptamer conjugates. This<br />

novel technique not only explores the possibility of the<br />

use of SPR spectroscopy in a highly sensitive detection<br />

of an MNP-based separation product but also offers a<br />

new direction in the use of Fe3O4 MNPs as an amplification<br />

agent to design high performance SPR biosensors.<br />

Over the past few decades, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs)<br />

have been receiving increasing attention due to their unprecedented<br />

advantages such as higher surface-to-volume ratio for<br />

chemical binding, minimum disturbance to attached biomolecules,<br />

faster binding rates, higher miscibility, and higher specificity. 1,2<br />

These characteristics of MNPs render them easier labeling by<br />

biomolecules, as well as easier binding with its target analytes.<br />

* Corresponding author. Tel.: 508-831-5275. Fax: 508-831-5936. E-mail:<br />

szhou@wpi.edu.<br />

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Up to now, all kinds of biomolecules including DNA and RNA, 3<br />

protein and peptides, 4 cell and virus 5-7 have been separated and<br />

concentrated under an external magnet by the use of MNPs as<br />

carriers. Compared with the springing up of MNPs in bioseparation,<br />

the application of MNPs in bioassays is limited because their<br />

size is too small to be detected by general techniques developed<br />

for detecting magnetic microbeads. In order to extend the<br />

application of MNPs in bioassays, some novel techniques had been<br />

used to detect MNPs, such as the electrochemical method, 8 IR<br />

spectroscopy, 9 fluorescence spectroscopy, 10 magnetic atomic force<br />

microscopy (AFM), 11 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 12<br />

bio-bar-code, 13 etc. However, these methods either need labeling<br />

MNPs by electroactive probes or fluorescence molecules or need<br />

expensive experiment setups, thereby limiting them to be used<br />

on a benchtop scale and cannot be used for simple, in situ, and<br />

cost-effective detection of real samples.<br />

Here, we investigate the application of surface plasmon<br />

resonance (SPR) spectroscopy for fast, ultrasensitive, and in situ<br />

detection of the MNP-enriched biomolecules. SPR being a surfacesensitive<br />

characterization method not only can be used for<br />

analyzing the kinetic data including the equilibrium constant and<br />

the association and dissociation parameters between biomolecules<br />

by simulating SPR kinetic curves but also can be used in situ to<br />

detect the concentrations of biomolecules with high sensitivity<br />

and selectivity. 14,15 The surface plasmon used in SPR spectroscopy<br />

is highly sensitive to changes in the effective refractive index or<br />

the thickness of the test medium in the vicinity of the metal<br />

surface, especially for the molecules with high mass change.<br />

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81, 2840–2846.<br />

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(11) Arakaki, A.; Hideshima, S.; Nakagawa, T.; Niwa, D.; Tanaka, T.; Matsunaga,<br />

T. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2004, 88, 543–546.<br />

(12) Perez, J. M.; Josephson, L.; O’Loughlin, T.; Hogemann, D.; Weissleder, R.<br />

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(13) Li, Y.; Hong Cu, Y. T.; Luo, D. Nat. Biotechnol. 2005, 23, 885–889.<br />

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10.1021/ac100812c © 2010 American <strong>Chemical</strong> Society<br />

Published on Web 07/20/2010

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