Issue 8, 2016

Tunable GUMBOS-based sensor array for label-free detection and discrimination of proteins

Abstract

There is increasing interest in developing new sensor strategies for accurate detection and identification of proteins, primarily due to their significance in various biological processes. In this regard, fluorometric sensors and sensor arrays have been widely explored as facile and inexpensive analytical tools. In this manuscript, we report a sensor array approach, based on a novel group of 6-(p-toluidino)-2-naphthalenesulfonate (TNS)-based organic salts for sensitive and label-free sensing of proteins. In this proof-of-concept study, three proteins (human serum albumin (HSA), α-antitrypsin and β-lactoglobulin (β-lac)) and binary mixtures of HSA and α-antitrypsin were used to evaluate the senor array performance. The fingerprint sensor-response patterns, dependent on proteins and protein mixtures at different concentrations, generated from the TNS-based sensors were employed to develop predictive models using principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Interestingly, there is excellent correlation between clustering patterns of PCA and different concentrations of proteins and protein mixtures, which was employed for discrimination of proteins and protein mixtures regardless of concentrations. Furthermore, identification accuracy of the proposed fluorescence-sensor technique, towards discrimination of various concentrations of proteins and protein mixtures, was calculated to be 100%. Overall, this sensor strategy is found to be a very promising tool for accurate discrimination of absolute and relative concentrations of proteins and protein mixtures.

Graphical abstract: Tunable GUMBOS-based sensor array for label-free detection and discrimination of proteins

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Sep 2015
Accepted
19 Jan 2016
First published
20 Jan 2016

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2016,4, 1414-1422

Tunable GUMBOS-based sensor array for label-free detection and discrimination of proteins

W. I. S. Galpothdeniya, F. R. Fronczek, M. Cong, N. Bhattarai, N. Siraj and I. M. Warner, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2016, 4, 1414 DOI: 10.1039/C5TB02038G

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