Yuting Zhu, Wei Li, Jing Yang, Ziqiang Li, Qianjin Li, Liwen Xiao, Ting Tan, Jianlin Li
Analytical chemistry 2024 Oct 22Limitations in the sensitivity, linear detection range, and cross-reaction of lateral flow immunoassays mainly hamper their application in rapid screening for multiple targets. In this work, we designed a new time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay (TRFIA) platform to overcome these limitations. This platform uses europium chelate polystyrene (PS@Eu) nanoparticles conjugated with monoclonal antibodies to sense multiple mycotoxins. We employed a competitive TRFIA protocol in which the conjugated PS@Eu was used on the surfaces of photonic microbead arrays (PMAs). The TRFIA signal of PMAs on the pad was recorded with the digital time-resolved fluorescence reader. The developed TRFIA shows wide detection linear ranges (0.01-1000 ng/mL for DON, 0.1-100 ng/mL for OTA, and 0.01-100 ng/mL for AFB1), low limits of detection (LODs) (7.9 pg/mL for DON, 18 pg/mL for OTA, and 7.7 pg/mL for AFB1), good specificity, good recovery ratios (76.68-117.26%), and good reproducibility in grain samples. The simulated fluorescence enhancement effect of PMA indicated that the electric field distribution on the surface of PS@Eu on PMA is twice higher than that on the surface of PS@Eu. The new TRFIA for three kinds of mycotoxins was 1000-fold more sensitive than the classical TRFIA, and it has great potential application in rapid screening for multiple targets.
Yuting Zhu, Wei Li, Jing Yang, Ziqiang Li, Qianjin Li, Liwen Xiao, Ting Tan, Jianlin Li. Photonic Microbead Array Digital Time-Resolved Fluorescence Ultrasensitive Platform for Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Mycotoxins. Analytical chemistry. 2024 Oct 22;96(42):16842-16853
PMID: 39388602
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