Jiyuan Liang,Yuxiang Wu,Cui Liu,Yuan-Cheng Cao,Jun’An Liu,Yongjun Lin
The silicon coated Magnetic nanoparticles (MNps) were prepared and applied to the genetically modified detection for Cry1Ac protein. TEM observations showed the bare MNps were in the size of 3–5 nm and the silicon coated core/shell MNps were in the range of 30–60 nm 1 M HCl acidic solution was used to test the chemical stability of the resultant MNps and results showed the coated MNps were very stable in the acid environment even after 12 h. Cy3 labelled IgG tests showed that the probe on the MNps was kept the bioactivity in the immunoassays. MNps based detection results showed that this analytical strategy had similar linear relation which R = 0.995 with the commercial ELISA kit. The MNps based detections were reliable for the Cry1 Ac protein in the linear range from 0.1 pg/L to 1.0 mg/L, and showed better performance in the low concentration of analyte. This study provides a promising technique to detect the Cry1Ac protein with high sensitivity in the examination of the GM products which is of importance in food safety.
Liu Cui,Zhou Zhen,Zou Linling,Cao Yuan-Cheng,Liu Jun’An,Lin Yongjun
A highly sensitive transgenic protein analysis method was proposed here based on fluorescein diacetate (FDA). First, FDA was prepared by the ball mill to harvest the nano-sized organic particles. Further examines showed that the FDA size can be controlled by the speed of centrifugation which can obtain FDA in well-distributed size. Cy3 antibody immobilization tests showed that the proteins can attach onto the FDA particles while keep bioactivities. FDA and Cry1Ac antibody immunoassay tests showed that when the FDA particle was in 150 nm, the linear range was 0.01 ng/L-30 μg/mL. And it has the lower detection limitation of 0.01 ng/L, which is 100 times more sensitive than the ELISA methods. These results indicate that the FDA related immunoassays are the promising approach in the transgenic analysis.