Measuring pair-wise molecular interactions in a complex mixture

Krishnendu Chakraborty; Manoj M. Varma; Murugesan Venkatapathi

doi:10.1117/12.2211669

22 April 2016 Measuring pair-wise molecular interactions in a complex mixture

Krishnendu Chakraborty, Manoj M. Varma, Murugesan Venkatapathi

Proceedings Volume 9722, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XI; 97221C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211669
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Complex biological samples such as serum contain thousands of proteins and other molecules spanning up to 13 orders of magnitude in concentration. Present measurement techniques do not permit the analysis of all pair-wise interactions between the components of such a complex mixture to a given target molecule. In this work we explore the use of nanoparticle tags which encode the identity of the molecule to obtain the statistical distribution of pair-wise interactions using their Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) signals. The nanoparticle tags are chosen such that the binding between two molecules conjugated to the respective nanoparticle tags can be recognized by the coupling of their LSPR signals. This numerical simulation is done by DDA to investigate this approach using a reduced system consisting of three nanoparticles (a gold ellipsoid with aspect ratio 2.5 and short axis 16 nm, and two silver ellipsoids with aspect ratios 3 and 2 and short axes 8 nm and 10 nm respectively) and the set of all possible dimers formed between them. Incident light was circularly polarized and all possible particle and dimer orientations were considered. We observed that minimum peak separation between two spectra is 5 nm while maximum is 184nm.

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Krishnendu Chakraborty, Manoj M. Varma, and Murugesan Venkatapathi "Measuring pair-wise molecular interactions in a complex mixture", Proc. SPIE 9722, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XI, 97221C (22 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211669

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