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Elsevier, Procedia Engineering, (5), p. 831-834, 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.09.237

Elsevier, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, (170), p. 122-128

DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.02.056

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Love wave biosensor for real-time detection of okadaic acid as DSP phycotoxin

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Abstract

This paper reports the detection of okadaic acid (OA) as a Diarrheic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) toxin with an acoustic wave platform in real-time. According to the FDA, the threshold for safe consumption of shellfish is 20 μg of OA for 100 g of shellfish tissue. The high gravimetric sensitivity of Love wave acoustic devices allow, in liquid media, immuno-detection thanks to immobilized specific antibodies. The biosensor is composed of two lines, one for the test and one used as a reference. Sensitive films were deposited through a PolyDiMethylSiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chip. On both lines, anti-okadaic acid antibodies (OA-Ab) and saturating agents were successively injected under continuous flow with controlled flow rate. On the test line, okadaic acid (OA) was injected while an unspecific peptide (6×Histidine, 6×His) was used on the control line. On both lines, polyclonal OA-Ab were re-injected a second time to reveal previously fixed OA on the test line. Measured frequency shifts were three times higher on test lines than on control lines. In these conditions, for only 2 μg of OA used for detection, the acoustic wave platform could detect DSP toxins with only 10 g of shellfish tissue.