Highly Sensitive Zinc Oxide Fiber-Optic Biosensor for the Detection of CD44 Protein

Paltusheva Z.U. Ashikbayeva Z. Tosi D. Gritsenko L.V.
November 2022 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Biosensors
2022 #12 Issue 11

Currently, significant progress is being made in the prevention, treatment and prognosis of many types of cancer, using biological markers to assess current physiological processes in the body, including risk assessment, differential diagnosis, screening, treatment determination and monitoring of disease progression. The interaction of protein coding gene CD44 with the corresponding ligands promotes the processes of invasion and migration in metastases. The study of new and rapid methods for the quantitative determination of the CD44 protein is essential for timely diagnosis and therapy. Current methods for detecting this protein use labeled assay reagents and are time consuming. In this paper, a fiber-optic biosensor with a spherical tip coated with a thin layer of zinc oxide (ZnO) with a thickness of 100 nm, deposited using a low-cost sol–gel method, is developed to measure the CD44 protein in the range from 100 aM to 100 nM. This sensor is easy to manufacture, has a good response to the protein change with detection limit of 0.8 fM, and has high sensitivity to the changes in the refractive index (RI) of the environment. In addition, this work demonstrates the possibility of achieving sensor regeneration without damage to the functionalized surface. The sensitivity of the obtained sensor was tested in relation to the concentration of the control protein, as well as without antibodies—CD44.

optical ball resonators , optical fiber sensors , reflectometry , refractive index sensors , zinc oxide

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Department of General Physics, Satbayev University, Satpayev Str., 22, Almaty, 050013, Kazakhstan
School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioinstruments, National Laboratory Astana, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan

Department of General Physics
School of Engineering and Digital Sciences
Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioinstruments

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