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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Nanotechnology
  • Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Background:

  • Waterborne diarrheal diseases like cholera and travelers' diarrhea pose significant public health risks globally.
  • Current diagnostic methods for infectious diseases are often slow, require specialized labs, and need trained personnel.
  • There is a critical need for rapid, sensitive, specific, portable, and cost-effective point-of-care diagnostic tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a thermally reversible biosensor for detecting the carbohydrate-binding domain of *Escherichia coli* heat-labile enterotoxin (LTB).
  • To create a fit-for-purpose diagnostic tool for travelers' diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic *E. coli*.
  • To explore the potential of a hybrid material system for sensitive and selective biomolecule detection.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a biosensing platform combining porous silicon (pSi) interferometric transducers with a thermoresponsive multivalent glycopolymer.
  • Utilizing the optical properties of pSi for label-free detection of LTB.
  • Investigating the temperature-mediated "catch-and-release" behavior of the glycopolymer for LTB capture and sensor regeneration.

Main Results:

  • The biosensor successfully detected sub-micromolar concentrations of LTB, with a limit of detection as low as 0.135 μM.
  • The platform demonstrated label-free detection capabilities.
  • The developed biosensor exhibited temperature-mediated "catch-and-release" functionality, enabling selective protein capture and sensor regeneration.

Conclusions:

  • The developed thermally reversible biosensor is a promising tool for the rapid, sensitive, and specific detection of LTB.
  • This technology has the potential for point-of-care diagnostics of travelers' diarrhea and other infectious diseases.
  • The "catch-and-release" behavior offers advantages for reusable sensors and multi-analyte detection systems.