An aqueous platinum nanotube based fluorescent immuno-assay for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus detection

  • Lu Chen
  • , Shiyi Ye
  • , Kai Cai
  • , Cuiling Zhang
  • , Guohua Zhou
  • , Zhike He
  • , Heyou Han*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has been a significant pathogen towards global swine industry upon its emergence in the late 1980s and since then has exemplified a rapidly evolving, widely spreading pathogen. It is urgently important to develop a simple, rapid and cost effective method to detect this pathogen when virus outbreaks. In the present work, it was found that virus antibody modified platinum nanotubes (Pt-Ab) could act as a superquencher to CdTe:Zn2+ quantum dots (CdTe:Zn2+ QDs) fluorescence by Stern-Volmer constants nearly 109 M-1 without any aggregation, the CdTe:Zn2+ QDs fluorescence will recover as the Pt-Ab goes away by antibody and antigen interaction when virus was added into the probe solution, releasing CdTe:Zn2+ QDs from the surface of Pt-Ab. By the recovery fluorescence intensity, it can realize qualitative and quantitative detection of PRRSV. This method gives a fast response to PRRSV concentration and provides a sensitive detection limit (2.4 ng/mL). Moreover, it can be applied in infected porcine serum samples and obtain satisfied results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)324-328
Number of pages5
JournalTalanta
Volume144
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fluorescence
  • PRRSV detection
  • PtNTs
  • Quantum dot

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