Polypyrrole-peptide microarray for biomolecular interaction analysis by SPR imaging

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:570:317-28. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-394-7_17.

Abstract

Nowadays, high-throughput analysis of biological events is a great challenge which could take benefit of the recent development of microarray devices. The great potential of such technology is related to the availability of a chip bearing a large set of probes, stable and easy to obtain, and suitable for ligand-binding detection. Here, we describe a new method based on polypyrrole chemistry, allowing the covalent immobilization of peptides in a microarray format and on a gold surface compatible with the use of surface plasmon resonance. This technique is then illustrated by the detection and characterization of antibodies induced by hepatitis C virus and present in patients' serums.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies / analysis
  • Humans
  • Immunosorbent Techniques
  • Models, Biological
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Protein Array Analysis / instrumentation
  • Protein Array Analysis / methods*
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / instrumentation
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Pyrroles / chemistry*
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / instrumentation
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / methods*

Substances

  • Antibodies
  • Peptides
  • Polymers
  • Pyrroles
  • polypyrrole