Mesoporous materials modified by aptamers and hydrophobic groups assist ultra-sensitive insulin detection in serum

  • Chang Lei
  • , Chun Xu
  • , Owen Noonan
  • , Anand Kumar Meka
  • , Long Zhang
  • , Amanda Nouwens
  • , Chengzhong Yu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A novel mesoporous material modified with both insulin-binding-aptamers and hydrophobic methyl groups is synthesized. With rationally designed pore structures and surface chemistry, this material is applied in sample pre-treatment for ELISA, and enables the quantification (0.25-5 pg ml-1) of insulin in serum, 30-fold enhancement of the limit-of-detection compared to the commercial ELISA kit.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13642-13645
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume51
Issue number71
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

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