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Colorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay utilizing 3'-3-5'-5-tetramethylbenzidine(TMB) as the chromogenic substrate has been widely used in the hospital for the detection of all kinds of disease biomarkers. Herein, we demonstrate a strategy to change this single-color display into dual-color responses to improve the accuracy of visual inspection. Our investigation firstly reveals that oxidation state of 3'-3-5'-5-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB2+) can quantitatively etch gold nanoparticles. Therefore, the incorporation of gold nanoparticles into a commercial TMB-based ELISA kit could generate dual-color responses: the solution color varied gradually from wine red (absorption peak located at -530 nm) to colorless, and then from colorless to yellow (absorption peak located at -450 nm) with the increase amount of targets. These dual-color responses effectively improved the sensitivity as well as the accuracy of visual inspection. For example, the proposed dual-color plasmonic ELISA is demonstrated for the detection of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in human serum with a visual limit of detection (LOD) as low as 0.0093 ng/mL.
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN: 2045-2322
Year: 2016
Volume: 6
4 . 2 5 9
JCR@2016
3 . 8 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: MULTIDISCIPLINARY;
ESI HC Threshold:318
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:3
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WoS CC Cited Count: 37
SCOPUS Cited Count: 44
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 2
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