Open AccessMolecularly Imprinted Polymers: Promising Tool for the Human Virus Detection
Author(s) -
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan,
Muhammad Ibrar Asif,
Amina Khatoon,
Shafia Arshad,
Shagufta Usman,
Iqra Karim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pakistan journal of analytical and environmental chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2221-5255
pISSN - 1996-918X
DOI - 10.21743/pjaec/2021.12.01
Subject(s) - molecularly imprinted polymer , molecular imprinting , nanotechnology , molecular recognition , computational biology , materials science , biology , chemistry , selectivity , biochemistry , organic chemistry , molecule , catalysis
Molecular imprinting is an attractive research area for synthesizing unique functional polymers with high selectivity due to template oriented active sites. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have a wide range of applications in chemical and biological sensing, drug delivery, and solidphase extraction owing to mechanical stability, reversibility, reproducibility, and cross-validity. MIPs are compatible with natural antibodies and are being used as antibody mimics/receptors in the biomedical field. Today, viral detection is the most popular research area due to emerging viral diseases with genetic variability and drug resistance. Therefore, there is a need to control viral infections by discriminative recognition of the viral pathogens. This review summarizes the literature on the detection of human viruses by using MIPs.