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Science 26 September 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5641, pp. 1884 - 1886
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088755
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Nanoparticle-Based Bio-Bar Codes for the Ultrasensitive Detection of Proteins

Jwa-Min Nam,* C. Shad Thaxton,* Chad A. Mirkin{dagger}

An ultrasensitive method for detecting protein analytes has been developed. The system relies on magnetic microparticle probes with antibodies that specifically bind a target of interest [prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in this case] and nanoparticle probes that are encoded with DNA that is unique to the protein target of interest and antibodies that can sandwich the target captured by the microparticle probes. Magnetic separation of the complexed probes and target followed by dehybridization of the oligonucleotides on the nanoparticle probe surface allows the determination of the presence of the target protein by identifying the oligonucleotide sequence released from the nanoparticle probe. Because the nanoparticle probe carries with it a large number of oligonucleotides per protein binding event, there is substantial amplification and PSA can be detected at 30 attomolar concentration. Alternatively, a polymerase chain reaction on the oligonucleotide bar codes can boost the sensitivity to 3 attomolar. Comparable clinically accepted conventional assays for detecting the same target have sensitivity limits of ~3 picomdar, six orders of magnitude less sensitive than what is observed with this method.

Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201, USA



* These authors contributed equally to the work.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: camirkin{at}chem.northwestern.edu

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