Abstract
An electrochemical biosensor has been developed for ultrasensitive, label-free determination of protein kinase activity. The sensor is composed of a unique peptide monolayer on a gold electrode. It identifies the order change in the monolayer upon phosphorylation, via square wave voltametry (SWV) measurements. Disorder caused by the introduction of the phosphate groups onto the middle of the peptide sequence results in pinhole for-mation and therefore an increase in the electrochemical signal. The measured sensitivity was 100 nM of kinase and the dynamic range was 100 nM up to 11 lM. Sensitivity was an order of magnitude higher, and the dynamic range wider by two orders of magnitude, as compared to our previously reported impedimetric method, in which the sensitivity was 1 lM, and the dynamic range was 1– 20 lM.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 515-520 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Biopolymers |
Volume | 104 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Correspondence to: Shlomo Yitzchaik, Institute of chemistry and the center for nanoscience and nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; e-mail: shlomo.yitzchaik@mail.huji.ac.il Contract grant sponsor: SYMONE project (FET-UCOMP thematic area) Contract grant number: FP7 318597 Contract grant sponsor: COST action (HINT) Contract grant number: MP1202 Dedicated to: Prof. Dr. Luis Moroder, Max Planck Institut fu€r Biochemie, Mar-tinsried Germany
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- electrochemistry
- kinase biosensor
- peptide monolayer