Microarrays offer the opportunity for the high-throughput study of protein-protein interactions that may uncover drug targets and provide early detection of various diseases. Most current technologies rely on fluorescent labelling of proteins, but this is costly, time-consuming and can be inaccurate due to steric interference, quenching and photo-bleaching.
Hatice Altug, Boston University, and colleagues from MIT have now found a way to accomplish label free detection by using a dual-colour filter method to image large scale plasmonic nanohole arrays. Their high-density detection platform has over 1 million sensors and has reliably demonstrated massively multiplexed detection of antibody bindings with reduced image acquisition time.
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Large-scale plasmonic microarrays for label-free high-throughput screening
Tsung-Yao Chang, Min Huang, Ahmet Ali Yanik, Hsin-Yu Tsai, Peng Shi, Serap Aksu, Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Hatice Altug
Lab Chip, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20475K
