Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors

ISBN-13: 9780824727376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 416 str.

Richard B. Thompson

Opis

Written by internationally renowned authors in their fields, Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors provides an up-to-date account of fluorescence-based sensors focused on practical applications in biotechnology, analytical chemistry, and biomedicine. This book reflects the most recent advances in the field, focusing on the emerging technologies with the broadest impacts. The authors discuss aptamers for sensing, techniques based on periplasmic binding proteins, the molecular beacon approach for DNA recognition, new developments in fluorophores and fluorescent labeling, lab-on-a-chip devices, and applications to practical problems.

Spis treści

Introduction; Prospects for the De Novo Design of Nucleic Acid Biosensors; Biosensors Based on Periplasmic Binding Proteins; Molecular Beacon DNA Probes Based on Fluorescence Biosensing; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Sensors for Bioanalysis; Carbonic Anhydrase-Based Biosensing of Metal Ions: Issues and Future Prospects; Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Sensing; Subpicomolar Assays of Antibodies and DNA Using Phosphorescence Labels; Development of Fluorescent Dipyrrolylquinoxaline-Based Anion Sensors;Lab-on-a-Chip and Fluorescence Sensing on the Microscale; The Array Biosensors; Planar Waveguide Biosensors for Point-of-Care Clinical and Molecular Diagnostics; Fluorescence-Based Sensors for Bioprocess Monitoring; Practical Aspects of Fluorescence Analysis of Free Zinc Ion in Biological Systems: pZn for the Biologist;

O autorze

Richard B.Thompson