The Application of a Nanomaterial Optical Fiber Biosensor Assay for Identification of Brucella Nomenspecies
dc.contributor.author | McCutcheon, Kelly | en |
dc.contributor.author | Bandara, Aloka B. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Zuo, Ziwei | en |
dc.contributor.author | Heflin, James R. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Inzana, Thomas J. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology | en |
dc.contributor.department | Physics | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-31T11:52:05Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-31T11:52:05Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2019-05-21 | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-05-31T06:01:59Z | en |
dc.description.abstract | Bacteria in the genus <i>Brucella</i> are the cause of brucellosis in humans and many domestic and wild animals. A rapid and culture-free detection assay to detect <i>Brucella</i> in clinical samples would be highly valuable. Nanomaterial optical fiber biosensors (NOFS) are capable of recognizing DNA hybridization events or other analyte interactions with high specificity and sensitivity. Therefore, a NOFS assay was developed to detect <i>Brucella</i> DNA from cultures and in tissue samples from infected mice. An ionic self-assembled multilayer (ISAM) film was coupled to a long-period grating optical fiber, and a nucleotide probe complementary to the <i>Brucella</i> IS<i>711</i> region and modified with biotin was bound to the ISAM by covalent conjugation. When the ISAM/probe duplex was exposed to lysate containing ≥100 killed cells of <i>Brucella</i>, or liver or spleen tissue extracts from <i>Brucella-</i>infected mice, substantial attenuation of light transmission occurred, whereas exposure of the complexed fiber to non-<i>Brucella</i> gram-negative bacteria or control tissue samples resulted in negligible attenuation of light transmission. Oligonucleotide probes specific for <i>B. abortus</i>, <i>B. melitensis</i>, and <i>B. suis</i> could also be used to detect and differentiate these three nomenspecies. In summary, the NOFS biosensor assay detected three nomenspecies of <i>Brucella</i> without the use of polymerase chain reaction within 30 min and could specifically detect low numbers of this bacterium in clinical samples. | en |
dc.description.version | Published version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | McCutcheon, K.; Bandara, A.B.; Zuo, Z.; Heflin, J.R.; Inzana, T.J. The Application of a Nanomaterial Optical Fiber Biosensor Assay for Identification of Brucella Nomenspecies. Biosensors 2019, 9, 64. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/bios9020064 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89653 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Brucella abortus | en |
dc.subject | Brucella melitensis | en |
dc.subject | Brucella suis | en |
dc.subject | optical fiber | en |
dc.subject | biosensor | en |
dc.subject | nucleotide probe | en |
dc.subject | light transmission | en |
dc.subject | diagnosis | en |
dc.title | The Application of a Nanomaterial Optical Fiber Biosensor Assay for Identification of Brucella Nomenspecies | en |
dc.title.serial | Biosensors | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |