Multivalent foldamer-based affinity assay for selective recognition of Aβ oligomers

Olajos, Gábor and Bartus, Éva and Schuster, Ildikó and Lautner, Gergely and Gyurcsányi, Ervin Róbert and Szögi, Titanilla and Fülöp, Lívia and Martinek, Tamás (2017) Multivalent foldamer-based affinity assay for selective recognition of Aβ oligomers. Analytica Chimica Acta. pp. 1-18. ISSN 0003-2670

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Abstract

Mimicking the molecular recognition functionality of antibodies is a great challenge. Foldamers are attractive candidates because of their relatively small size and designable interaction surface. This paper describes a sandwich type enzyme-linked immunoassay with a tetravalent β-peptide foldamer helix array as capture element and enzyme labeled tracer antibodies. The assay was found to be selective to β-amyloid oligomeric species with surface features transiently present in ongoing aggregation. In optimized conditions, with special emphasis on the foldamer immobilization, a detection limit of 5 pM was achieved with a linear range of 10–500 pM. These results suggest that protein mimetic foldamers can be useful tools in biosensors and affinity assays.

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