Bovine serum albumin as an effective sensitivity enhancer for peptide-based amperometric biosensor for ultrasensitive detection of prostate specific antigen

Publication date: 15 August 2017
Source:Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 94
Author(s): Zhongxue Tang, Yuanyuan Fu, Zhanfang Ma
Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was firstly implemented as an effective sensitivity enhancer for a peptide-based amperometric biosensor for the ultrasensitive detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA). A porous and conductive substrate of chitosan-lead ferrocyanide-(poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride)-graphene oxide) was in-situ generated on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE), in which Pb2[Fe(CN)6] served as a novel redox species with strong current signal at −0.46 V (vs. Ag/AgCl). Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride)-graphene oxide was applied to improve conductivity of the substrate. After adsorbing Pb²⁺ for signal amplification, chitosan provided active sites to simultaneously immobilize peptides and 1-aminopropyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride by glutaraldehyde. To enhance the sensitivity, BSA was chemically linked to the immobilized peptide, behaving as a serious decrease of current signal for BSA hindering the electron transfer. The dramatic increase of current signal of the biosensor was obtained by PSA cleaving the immobilized BSA-peptide. The proposed biosensor exhibited a detection limit of 1fgmL⁻¹ for PSA and its sensitivity was seven-fold higher than previous works.



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