Design and Development of Biosensors for Progesterone Detection

Table 3

Performance comparison of progesterone biosensor with other materials.

Type of biosensor	Functional material	Samples	Linear range (μmol/L)	LOD (nM)	References
Special compounds
Fluorescent chemical sensor	PG-1, PG-2	Blood and amniotic fluid samples from pregnant women	—	PG-1 (1210)	[47]
				PG-2 (38.1)
Biomaterial
Fluorescent biosensor	CFP, GFP, and DsRed	Monkey serum	—	(EC50) 0.4809	[33]
Luciferin and biomaterials
Fluorescent biosensor	Fluorescein and Dabcyl	Tap water, urine	0.03185-0.3185	0.3503	[48]
Quantum dots and biomaterials
Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRi) optical biosensor	NIR-streptavidin-coated quantum dots	P4 sample	0.005016-126000	5	[49]

Note that LOD represents the limit of detection.