Quartz crystal microbalance for telomerase sensing based on gold nanoparticle induced signal amplification†
Abstract
A novel circulating-flow quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) biosensing method has been established to detect telomerase. Oligonucleotide-functionalized gold nanoparticles (GNPs-cDNA) have been used to amplify the frequency change, which enable this QCM to be a sensitive biosensor for telomerase activity detection. The detection limit was as low as 37 cells per mL. The assay platform exhibited excellent selectivity.