Method for determining an analyte content of a liquid sample by means of a bioanalyzer

Abstract

A method for automated in situ determining an analyte content of a liquid sample by means of a bioanalyzer, wherein a measurement duct has at least one substrate, comprising a repeatedly performable sequence of steps as follows: (i) preparing a sensor matrix, which has a plurality of receptors, which bind the analyte and/or a further target molecule, or bring about a chemical conversion of the analyte or of the further target molecule, leading through the measurement duct a preparation solution of at least a first chemical species, wherein a plurality of the first chemical species are bound on the substrate via the functional group binding on the substrate, wherein the other functional group of the plurality of the first chemical species bound on the substrate serves as a receptor or for subsequent binding of a receptor; (ii) leading the liquid sample, through the measurement duct, wherein analyte contained in the liquid sample or in the liquid to be measured, and/or other target molecules contained in the liquid sample or the liquid to be measured, bind, preferably selectively and specifically, on the receptors or are chemically converted by the receptors, and determining a measured variable correlated with the amount of the target molecules bound or converted by the receptors, and deriving therefrom the analyte content of the liquid sample; and (iii) regenerating, especially clearing, the at least one substrate, wherein the sensor matrix and, in given cases, molecules bound thereto, especially analyte molecules, other target molecules or other molecules, are released from the substrate and/or at least partially decomposed.