Immobilization of ssDNA on the surface of silver nanoparticles-graphene quantum dots modified by gold nanoparticles towards biosensing of microorganism

Abstract

Rapid screening of pathogenic microorganisms are widely demand in the last decade. According to fastidious and hard to grow nature, Legionella penumophila is important pathogen for bioassay and biomedical analysis. In this work a novel paper-based genoassay was developed for monitoring of L. penumophila. For the first time, silver-graphene quantum dots (Ag/GQDs) ink was synthesized and used for construction of new substrate for bioassay of L. penumophila. The prepared interface was modified by gold nanoparticles grafted by Cysteamine A (CysA/AuNPs) which is necessary for ssDNA immobilization and hybridization by cDNA. All of the genoassay fabrication steps were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Atomic force microscopic (AFM) and also TEM (transmission electron microscopy). Using chronoamperometry technique, the measurement of target cDNA was performed successfully. Also, cDNA was determined in the linear rang of 1 µM to 1ZM which low limit of quantification was 1ZM. The results show that the designed bio-platform despite a simple structure with high sensitivity and specificity for the DNA based bioassay of L. penumophila genome.