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Label-free virus-antibody interaction monitoring in real-time by common-path interferometry

Alhaddad, S.; Bey, H.; Thouvenin, O.; Boulanger, P.; Boccara, C.; Boccara, M.; Izeddin, I.

2022-08-25 biophysics
10.1101/2022.08.23.504719 bioRxiv
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Viruses can affect all life forms, raising concerns about virus detection and quantification of small nanoparticles. In this paper we use a label-free, full-field, incoherently illuminated common path interferometric method to detect, track, and quantify biotic nanoparticles. The detection consists of amplifying the light scattered by single nanoparticles in the sample solution. Then, the use of single-particle tracking analysis is used to monitor the change in particle diffusive mobility. With this approach, the recognition signature of T5 phages with purified antibodies targeting the major capsid protein is detected in a few minutes. We also tracked the interaction between SPP1 phages and physiological non-purified serum-containing multiples antibodies molecules. The first interactions occur after around one minute, and the recognition signature is detectable after minutes. In addition, we have been able to differentiate two populations of similar size of empty and full (encapsulating DNA) capsids of T5 in a heterogeneous solution demonstrating the robustness of this label-free detection approach. Furthermore, by combining the diffusion coefficient to the number of tracked particles, we were able to estimate the affinity of the virus-antibodies reaction.

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