Improved fluorescent assay sensitivity using silver island films: Fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled albumin as an example |
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Authors: | O S Kulakovich N D Strekal’ M V Artem’ev A P Stupak S A Maskevich S V Gaponenko |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 prosp. Nezavisimosti, Minsk, 220072;(2) Janka Kupala Grodno State University, Belarus;(3) Institute of Physicochemical Problems, Belorussian State University, Minsk |
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Abstract: | We have studied enhancement of the fluorescence of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC), bound to albumin and near an annealed
silver island film, as a function of the distance between the protein molecules and the metal. As the intermediate spacer
layer between the albumin and the silver substrate, we used multilayer films based on polyelectrolytes. The maximum nine-fold
enhancement coefficient for the fluorescence of FITC corresponds to a thickness of the intermediate layer of ≈4 nm, or three
layers of the polyelectrolyte. In this case, we observe a significant decrease in the average photoluminescence decay time
for the label near the silver film compared with a dielectric medium.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 6, pp. 797–800, November–December, 2006. |
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Keywords: | enhanced fluorescence island silver film intermediate layer (spacer) bovine serum albumin labeled by fluorescein isothiocyanate |
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