Abstract: | Abstract The gold colloidal nanoparticles with a diameter of 24 ± 0.2 nm were prepared, characterized by ultraviolet–visible (UV-vis), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and cyclic voltammetry, and assembled on a gold plate substrate for constructing an optical nanobiosensor. The nanosensor exhibited distinct optical properties of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), which could be used for recognition of oncogene biomolecules such as the c-Myc (3C7) antibody protein. The LSPR nanobiosensor has also been successfully applied to determination of a pCMV-Myc mammalian expression vector, one kind of DNA plasmids with a linear response range of 6.2–20.0 ng/µL and a detection limit of 2.4 ng/µL. |