Publication Date:
2000-04-15
Description:
We report the specific transduction, via surface stress changes, of DNA hybridization and receptor-ligand binding into a direct nanomechanical response of microfabricated cantilevers. Cantilevers in an array were functionalized with a selection of biomolecules. The differential deflection of the cantilevers was found to provide a true molecular recognition signal despite large nonspecific responses of individual cantilevers. Hybridization of complementary oligonucleotides shows that a single base mismatch between two 12-mer oligonucleotides is clearly detectable. Similar experiments on protein A-immunoglobulin interactions demonstrate the wide-ranging applicability of nanomechanical transduction to detect biomolecular recognition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fritz, J -- Baller, M K -- Lang, H P -- Rothuizen, H -- Vettiger, P -- Meyer, E -- Guntherodt, H -- Gerber, C -- Gimzewski, J K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Apr 14;288(5464):316-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Saumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Ruschlikon, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10764640" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibody Specificity
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Base Pair Mismatch
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Base Pairing
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Chemistry, Physical
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Goats
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Gold/*chemistry
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Immunoglobulin Constant Regions/*chemistry
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Ligands
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*Nucleic Acid Hybridization
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/*chemistry
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Physicochemical Phenomena
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Rabbits
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Silicon/*chemistry
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Staphylococcal Protein A/*chemistry
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Static Electricity
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Stress, Mechanical
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Thionucleotides/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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