Relying on a professional GlycoNano™ Platform, CD BioGlyco provides high-quality Glyconanotechnology-based Biosensor Development services. A lectin sensor utilizes a specific lectin as a sensitive element detector and converts changes in physical and chemical quantities generated on the detector into a signal. Our lectin sensor development services are designed to provide clients with one-stop solutions from design to performance testing to meet the needs for highly sensitive and specific assays in disease diagnostics, biological research, and drug development.
Taking full advantage of biosensing technology and nanotechnology, our company provides lectin sensors with high sensitivity, ultra-high selectivity, and stability through the study of the immobilization of biomolecules at the sensing interface and the conversion of biorecognition signals.
Our company offers comprehensive sensor synthesis services including the preparation of electrode materials, modification of electrode surfaces, immobilization of biometric elements, construction of sensing layers, encapsulation, and bonding. Our researchers use carbon-based materials or metal oxides to prepare electrode materials. Moreover, in constructing sensing layers, we use multilayered structures such as signal amplification layers and electron-mediated layers to enhance signal conversion.
For synthetic sensors, we offer specialized surface modification services including chemical oxidation passivation, heat treatment, surface activation, drying, incubation, and washing services. Importantly, we judge the optimal oxidation conditions by Fourier transform infrared spectral (FTIR) analysis. Moreover, we offer a wide range of lectin resources for surface modification for different applications.
Technology: Reflectance interference Fourier transform spectroscopy (RIFTS), FE-SEM
Journal: Scientific Reports
Published: 2020
IF: 3.8
Results: In this study, researchers proposed a porous silicon (PSi)-based biosensor that utilizes lectins as biometric elements for real-time detection by the RIFTS technique. The researchers selected three lectins concanavalin A (ConA), wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), and Ulex europaeus agglutinin (UeA) with different glycan specificities for modifying the porous silicon surface. The study successfully developed a lectin-based porous silicon biosensor for real-time, label-free bacterial detection. The sensor has comparable performance to antibody-modified biosensors, but the lectin is more stable.
Fig.1 FE-SEM images of PSi. (Yaghoubi, et al., 2020)
Combining advanced synthesis and characterization techniques, CD BioGlyco provides specialized glyconanotechnology-based lectin sensor development services. Our highly specific and high-affinity lectin sensors provide our clients with a powerful tool to explore and exploit the role of multiple targets in biology. Feel free to contact us anytime.
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