Systematic aptamer-gold nanoparticle colorimetry for protein detection: Thrombin

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 661-666

  Pandana, Herman ^b   Aschenbach, Konrad H ^b   Gomez, Romel D ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Binding sites; Colorimetric detection; Conjugation; G quadruplex; Gold nanoparticles; Thrombin

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; BIOMOLECULES; COLORIMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; GOLD; PROTEINS;

BOCK APTAMER; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; QUADRUPLEX SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THROMBIN TITRATION;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 44649179863     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.922725     Document Type: Article

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