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Novel developments in capillary electrophoresis miniaturization, sampling, detection and portability: An overview of the last decade. Trends Analyt Chem 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2023.116941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Banni GAHD, Nehmé R. Capillary electrophoresis for enzyme-based studies: Applications to lipases and kinases. J Chromatogr A 2021; 1661:462687. [PMID: 34864234 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a powerful technique continuously expanding into new application fields. One of these applications involves the study of enzymes, their catalytic activities and the alteration of this activity by specific ligands. In this review, two model enzymes, lipases and kinases, will be used since they differ substantially in their modes of action, reaction requirements and applications making them perfect subjects to demonstrate the advantages and limitations of CE-based enzymatic assays. Indeed, the ability to run CE in various operation modes and hyphenation to different detectors is essential for lipase-based studies. Additionally, the low sample consumption provided by CE promotes it as a promising technique to assay human and viral nucleoside kinases. Undeniably, these are rarely commercially available enzymes and must be frequently produced in the laboratory, a process which requires special sets of skills. CE-based lipase and kinase reactions can be performed outside the capillary (pre-capillary) where the reactants are mixed in a vial prior to their separation or, inside the capillary (in-capillary) where the reactants are mixed before the electrophoretic analysis. These enzyme-based applications of CE will be compared to those of liquid chromatography-based applications in terms of advantages and limitations. Binding assays based on affinity CE and the compelling microscale thermophoresis (MST) will be briefly presented as they allow a broad understanding of the molecular mechanism behind ligand binding and of the resulting modulation in activity.
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- Ghassan Al Hamoui Dit Banni
- Institut de Chimie Organique et Analytique (ICOA), CNRS FR 2708 - UMR 7311, Université d'Orléans, Orléans 45067, France
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- Institut de Chimie Organique et Analytique (ICOA), CNRS FR 2708 - UMR 7311, Université d'Orléans, Orléans 45067, France.
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Guzman NA, Guzman DE. Immunoaffinity Capillary Electrophoresis in the Era of Proteoforms, Liquid Biopsy and Preventive Medicine: A Potential Impact in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Disease Progression. Biomolecules 2021; 11:1443. [PMID: 34680076 PMCID: PMC8533156 DOI: 10.3390/biom11101443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Over the years, multiple biomarkers have been used to aid in disease screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and response to therapy. As of late, protein biomarkers are gaining strength in their role for early disease diagnosis and prognosis in part due to the advancements in identification and characterization of a distinct functional pool of proteins known as proteoforms. Proteoforms are defined as all of the different molecular forms of a protein derived from a single gene caused by genetic variations, alternative spliced RNA transcripts and post-translational modifications. Monitoring the structural changes of each proteoform of a particular protein is essential to elucidate the complex molecular mechanisms that guide the course of disease. Clinical proteomics therefore holds the potential to offer further insight into disease pathology, progression, and prevention. Nevertheless, more technologically advanced diagnostic methods are needed to improve the reliability and clinical applicability of proteomics in preventive medicine. In this manuscript, we review the use of immunoaffinity capillary electrophoresis (IACE) as an emerging powerful diagnostic tool to isolate, separate, detect and characterize proteoform biomarkers obtained from liquid biopsy. IACE is an affinity capture-separation technology capable of isolating, concentrating and analyzing a wide range of biomarkers present in biological fluids. Isolation and concentration of target analytes is accomplished through binding to one or more biorecognition affinity ligands immobilized to a solid support, while separation and analysis are achieved by high-resolution capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled to one or more detectors. IACE has the potential to generate rapid results with significant accuracy, leading to reliability and reproducibility in diagnosing and monitoring disease. Additionally, IACE has the capability of monitoring the efficacy of therapeutic agents by quantifying companion and complementary protein biomarkers. With advancements in telemedicine and artificial intelligence, the implementation of proteoform biomarker detection and analysis may significantly improve our capacity to identify medical conditions early and intervene in ways that improve health outcomes for individuals and populations.
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- Princeton Biochemicals, Inc., Princeton, NJ 08543, USA;
- Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Portable automated handheld sample collection-preparation instrument for airborne volatile substances. Microchem J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2020.105576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Drevinskas T, Maruška A, Girdauskas V, Dūda G, Gorbatsova J, Kaljurand M. Complete capillary electrophoresis process on a drone: towards a flying micro-lab. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2020; 12:4977-4986. [PMID: 33006341 DOI: 10.1039/d0ay01220c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Hazardous remote places exist in the world. Why should health or life be risked sending a scientist to the investigation site, as the remote analytical instrumentation exists? Different scientific fields require instruments that could be used on-site (in situ), therefore the purpose of this work was to design a fully automated chemical analysis system small enough to be mountable on a drone. Here we show an autonomous analytical system with sampling capability on a drone. The system is suited for the remote and autonomous analysis of volatile and non-volatile chemicals in the air. The designed system weighs less than 800 g. Data are transmitted wirelessly. Collected substances are separated automatically without the intervention of the operator using the method of capillary zone electrophoresis. The analytes are detected using a miniaturized contactless conductivity detector quantifying them down to less than 1 μM. In this work, we demonstrated sampling and separation of volatile amines (triethylamine and diethylamine) and organic acids (acetic and formic acids), non-volatile inorganic cations (K+, Ca2+, Na+), and protein (bovine serum albumin) in the aerosol state. It was shown that the capillary electrophoretic analysis can be performed on a hovering drone. We anticipate our work to be a starting point for more sophisticated, autonomous complex sample analysis. We believe that our designed instrument will enable the investigation of hazardous places in different research fields.
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- Tomas Drevinskas
- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos 8, LT44404 Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Hauser PC, Kubáň P. Capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection for analytical techniques - Developments from 2018 to 2020. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1632:461616. [PMID: 33096295 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2020.461616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The developments of analytical contactless conductivity measurements based on capacitive coupling over the two years from mid-2018 to mid-2020 are covered. This mostly concerns applications of the technique in zone electrophoresis employing conventional capillaries and to a lesser extent lab-on-chip devices. However, its use for the detection in several other flow-based analytical methods has also been reported. Detection of bubbles and measurements of flow rates in two-phase flows are also recurring themes. A few new applications in stagnant aqueous samples, e.g. endpoint detection in titrations and measurement on paper-based devices, have been reported. Some variations of the design of the measuring cells and their read-out electronics have also been described.
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- Peter C Hauser
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Veveří 97, CZ-60200, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Drevinskas T, Maruška A, Telksnys L, Hjerten S, Stankevičius M, Lelešius R, Mickienė RT, Karpovaitė A, Šalomskas A, Tiso N, Ragažinskienė O. Chromatographic Data Segmentation Method: A Hybrid Analytical Approach for the Investigation of Antiviral Substances in Medicinal Plant Extracts. Anal Chem 2018; 91:1080-1088. [PMID: 30488694 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The methodology described in this article will significantly reduce the time required for understanding the relations between chromatographic data and bioactivity assays. The methodology is a hybrid of hypothesis-based and data-driven scientific approaches. In this work, a novel chromatographic data segmentation method is proposed, which demonstrates the capability of finding what volatile substances are responsible for antiviral and cytotoxic effects in the medicinal plant extracts. Up until now, the full potential of the separation methods has not been exploited in the life sciences. This was due to the lack of data ordering methods capable of adequately preparing the chromatographic information. Furthermore, the data analysis methods suffer from multidimensionality, requiring a large number of investigated data points. A new method is described for processing any chromatographic information into a vector. The obtained vectors of highly complex and different origin samples can be compared mathematically. The proposed method, efficient with relatively small sized data sets, does not suffer from multidimensionality. In this novel analytical approach, the samples did not need fractionation and purification, which is typically used in hypothesis-based scientific research. All investigations were performed using crude extracts possessing hundreds of phyto-substances. The antiviral properties of medicinal plant extracts were investigated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, antiviral tests, and proposed data analysis methods. The findings suggested that (i) β- cis-caryophyllene, linalool, and eucalyptol possess antiviral activity, while (ii) thujones do not, and (iii) α-thujone, β-thujone, cis- p-menthan-3-one, and estragole show cytotoxic effects.
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- Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies , Vilnius University , Goštauto 12 , Vilnius LT-01108 , Lithuania
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- Department of Chemistry-BMC, Biochemistry , Uppsala University , Husargatan 3 , Uppsala 752 37 , Sweden
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- Sector of Medicinal Plants , Kaunas Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University , Z. E. Žilibero str. 6 , Kaunas LT-46324 , Lithuania
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Drevinskas T, Telksnys L, Maruška A, Gorbatsova J, Kaljurand M. Compensation of the baseline temperature fluctuations for autonomous CE–C4D instrument working in harsh environments. Electrophoresis 2018; 39:2877-2883. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201800132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Tomas Drevinskas
- Instrumental Analysis Open Access CentreFaculty of Natural SciencesVytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania
- Department of Systems’ AnalysisFaculty of InformaticsVytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania
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- Department of Systems’ AnalysisFaculty of InformaticsVytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania
- Recognition Processes Department,Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Vilnius Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access CentreFaculty of Natural SciencesVytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania
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- Department of ChemistryFaculty of SciencesTallinn University of Technology Tallinn Estonia
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access CentreFaculty of Natural SciencesVytautas Magnus University Kaunas Lithuania
- Department of ChemistryFaculty of SciencesTallinn University of Technology Tallinn Estonia
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Drevinskas T, Stankevičius M, Bimbiraitė-Survilienė K, Naujokaitytė G, Kaškonienė V, Kondrotienė K, Šernienė L, Kornyšova O, Malakauskas M, Maruška A. Optimization of a capillary zone electrophoresis-contactless conductivity detection method for the determination of nisin. Electrophoresis 2018; 39:2425-2430. [PMID: 29935020 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201800143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Determination of natural preservatives using electrophoretic or chromatographic techniques in fermented milk products is a complex task due to the following reasons: (i) the concentrations of the analytes can be below the detection limits, (ii) complex matrix and comigrating/coeluting compounds in the sample can interfere with the analytes of the interest, (iii) low recovery of the analytes, and (iv) the necessity of complex sample preparation. The aim of this study was to apply capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with contactless conductivity detection for the separation and determination of nisin in fermented milk products. In this work, separation and determination of natural preservative-nisin in fermented milk products is described. Optimized conditions using capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with capacitance-to-digital technology based contactless conductivity detector and data conditioning, which filter the noise of the electropherogram adaptively to the peak migration time, allowed precise, accurate, sensitive (limit of quantification: 0.02 μg/mL), and most importantly requiring very minute sample preparation, determination of nisin. Sample preparation includes following steps: (i) extraction/dilution and (ii) centrifugation. This method was applied for the determination of nisin in real samples, i.e. fermented milk products. The values of different nisin forms were ranging from 0.056 ± 0.003 μg/mL to 9.307 ± 0.437 μg/g.
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- Tomas Drevinskas
- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Food Safety and Quality, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Food Safety and Quality, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Food Safety and Quality, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Instrumental Analysis Open Access Centre, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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