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Kim JM, Seong BL, Lim DK. Bead based facile assay for sensitive quantification of native state green fluorescent protein. RSC Adv 2020; 10:13095-13099. [PMID: 35492102 PMCID: PMC9051470 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09599c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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A facile method for the quantification of native state protein is strongly required to accurately determine the amount of expressed protein of interest. Here we report a simple bead-based assay, which can sensitively quantify the amount of native state green fluorescent protein using Ni-NTA (nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid)-modified microbead particles. The bead-based method is simple and straightforward to perform and it showed a highly sensitive capability to detect the expressed fluorescent protein because of the enriched fluorescent protein on the beads.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jung Min Kim
- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University 145 Korea-ro Seongbuk-gu Seoul Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University 50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu Seoul 120-749 Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University 145 Korea-ro Seongbuk-gu Seoul Republic of Korea
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Wang JY, Kwon JS, Hsu SM, Chuang HS. Sensitive tear screening of diabetic retinopathy with dual biomarkers enabled using a rapid electrokinetic patterning platform. LAB ON A CHIP 2020; 20:356-362. [PMID: 31848562 DOI: 10.1039/c9lc00975b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Bead-based immunosensors have intrigued the scientific community over the past decades due to their rapid and multiplexed capabilities in the detection of various biological targets. Nevertheless, their use in the detection of low-abundance analytes remains a continuing challenge because of their limited number of active enrichment approaches. To this end, our research presents a delicate microbead enrichment technique using an optoelectrokinetic platform, followed by the detection of dual biomarkers for the sensitive screening of an eye disease termed diabetic retinopathy (DR). In this study, microbeads turned fluorescent as their surfaces formed sandwiched immunocomplexes in the presence of target antigens. The tiny fluorescent dots were then concentrated using the optoelectrokinetic platform for the enhancement of their signals. The signal rapidly escalated in 10 s, and the optimal limit of detection was nearly 100 pg mL-1. For practical DR screening, two biomarkers, lipocalin 1 (LCN1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), were used. Approximately 20 μL of analytes were collected from the tear samples of the tested patients. The concentrations of both biomarkers showed escalating trends with the severity of DR. Two concentration thresholds of LCN1 and VEGF that indicate proliferative DR were determined out of 24 clinical samples based on the receiver operating characteristic curves. For verification, a single-blind test was conducted with additional clinical tear samples from five random subjects. The final outcome of this evaluation showed an accuracy of >80%. This non-invasive screening provides a potential means for the early diagnosis of DR and may increase the screening rate among the high-risk diabetic population in the future.
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- Jen-Yi Wang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
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- Division of Thermal and Fluids Science, Institute for Computational Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. and Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan and Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
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Zhang X, Cui Y, He M, Jiao Y, Yang Z. Lipocalin-1 Expression as a Prognosticator Marker of Survival in Breast Cancer Patients. Breast Care (Basel) 2019; 15:272-280. [PMID: 32774222 DOI: 10.1159/000503168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Purpose LCN1 (lipocalin-1), a gene that encodes tear lipocalin (or von Ebner's gland protein), is mainly expressed in secretory glands and tissues, such as the lachrymal and lingual gland, and nasal, mammary, and tracheobronchial mucosae. Analysis of the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Breast Carcinoma (BRCA) level 3 data revealed a relationship between LCN1 expression and survival in breast cancer patients. Methods The χ2 test and Fisher exact test were applied to analyze the clinical data and RNA sequencing expression data, and the association between LCN1 expression and clinicopathologic features was determined. The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve of LCN1 was drawn to assess its ability as a diagnostic marker, and the optimal cutoff value was obtained from the ROC curve to distinguish groups with high and low LCN1 expression. Cox regression was used to compare both groups, and a log-rank test was applied to calculate p values and compare the -Kaplan-Meier curves. Furthermore, GEO datasets were employed for external data validation. Results Analysis of 1,104 breast cancer patients with a primary tumor revealed that LCN1 was overexpressed in breast cancer. High LCN1 expression was associated with clinicopathologic features and poor survival. Analyzing the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of LCN1, it was found that its diagnostic ability was limited. Multivariate analysis indicated that LCN1 expression is an independent predictor of survival in breast cancer patients. Through validation in GEO datasets, LCN1 expression was higher in tumor than normal tissue of the breast. High LCN1 expression was associated with poor survival in breast cancer patients. Conclusions High LCN1 expression is an independent prognosticator of a poor prognosis in breast cancer.
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- Xueyan Zhang
- School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Anesthesia, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Worms on a Chip. Bioanalysis 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6229-3_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Kunti G, Dhar J, Bhattacharya A, Chakraborty S. Joule heating-induced particle manipulation on a microfluidic chip. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2019; 13:014113. [PMID: 30867883 PMCID: PMC6404938 DOI: 10.1063/1.5082978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We develop an electrokinetic technique that continuously manipulates colloidal particles to concentrate into patterned particulate groups in an energy efficient way, by exclusive harnessing of the intrinsic Joule heating effects. Our technique exploits the alternating current electrothermal flow phenomenon which is generated due to the interaction between non-uniform electric and thermal fields. Highly non-uniform electric field generates sharp temperature gradients by generating spatially-varying Joule heat that varies along the radial direction from a concentrated point hotspot. Sharp temperature gradients induce a local variation in electric properties which, in turn, generate a strong electrothermal vortex. The imposed fluid flow brings the colloidal particles at the centre of the hotspot and enables particle aggregation. Furthermore, maneuvering structures of the Joule heating spots, different patterns of particle clustering may be formed in a low power budget, thus opening up a new realm of on-chip particle manipulation process without necessitating a highly focused laser beam which is much complicated and demands higher power budget. This technique can find its use in Lab-on-a-chip devices to manipulate particle groups, including biological cells.
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- Golak Kunti
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- CNRS, Universite de Rennes 1, Geosciences Rennes UMR6118, Rennes, France
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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Jia W, Lu Z, Yang H, Li H, Xu D. Elimination terminal fixed region screening and high-throughput kinetic determination of aptamer for lipocalin-1 by surface plasmon resonance imaging. Anal Chim Acta 2018; 1043:158-166. [PMID: 30392664 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Revised: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A highly efficient method for eliminating terminal fixed region interference of aptamer with real-time monitoring of the SELEX process was described by silver decahedra nanoparticles probe (Ag10-A10-RP(15)) capture and block the terminal fixed region candidates. A microarray chip was developed by immobilization of target protein (lipocalin-1 (LCN-1)) and control proteins (Human serum albumin (HSA), Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Holo-transferrin) on the biochip surface. The nucleic acid pool was first incubated with target and then captured by hybridization with Ag10-A10-RP(15). The work allows rapid screening of aptamer elimination fixed-region interference, and the kinetic constants of candidate sequences can be quickly determined using SPRi technology. Eventually, ten aptamers with high affinity and specific for LCN-1 after only fifth-round of selection was acquired.
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- Wenchao Jia
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
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Enhanced diffusometric immunosensing with grafted gold nanoparticles for detection of diabetic retinopathy biomarker tumor necrosis factor-α. Biosens Bioelectron 2018; 101:75-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Revised: 09/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Chung CY, Wang JC, Chuang HS. Simultaneous and quantitative monitoring of co-cultured Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus with antibiotics on a diffusometric platform. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46336. [PMID: 28402317 PMCID: PMC5389350 DOI: 10.1038/srep46336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Successful treatments against bacterial infections depend on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). However, conventional AST requires more than 24 h to obtain an outcome, thereby contributing to high patient mortality. An antibiotic therapy based on experiences is therefore necessary for saving lives and escalating the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens. Accordingly, a fast and effective drug screen is necessary for the appropriate administration of antibiotics. The mixed pathogenic nature of infectious diseases emphasizes the need to develop an assay system for polymicrobial infections. On this basis, we present a novel technique for simultaneous and quantitative monitoring of co-cultured microorganisms by coupling optical diffusometry with bead-based immunoassays. This simple integration simultaneously achieves a rapid AST analysis for two pathogens. Triple color particles were simultaneously recorded and subsequently analyzed by functionalizing different fluorescent color particles with dissimilar pathogen-specific antibodies. Results suggested that the effect of the antibiotic, gentamicin, on co-cultured Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus was effectively distinguished by the proposed technique. This study revealed a multiplexed and time-saving (within 2 h) platform with a small sample volume (~0.5 μL) and a low initial bacterial count (50 CFU per droplet, ~105 CFU/mL) for continuously monitoring the growth of co-cultured microorganisms. This technique provides insights into timely therapies against polymicrobial diseases in the near future.
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- Chih-Yao Chung
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.,Department of Urology, Chimei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.,Medical Device Innovation Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Detection of low-abundance biomarker lipocalin 1 for diabetic retinopathy using optoelectrokinetic bead-based immunosensing. Biosens Bioelectron 2017; 89:701-709. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Revised: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Rinklin P, Krause HJ, Wolfrum B. On-chip electromagnetic tweezers - 3-dimensional particle actuation using microwire crossbar arrays. LAB ON A CHIP 2016; 16:4749-4758. [PMID: 27847939 DOI: 10.1039/c6lc00887a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Emerging miniaturization technologies for biological and bioengineering applications require precise control over position and actuation of microparticles. While many of these applications call for high-throughput approaches, common tools for particle manipulation, such as magnetic or optical tweezers, suffer from low parallelizability. To address this issue, we introduce a chip-based platform that enables flexible three-dimensional control over individual magnetic microparticles. Our system relies on microwire crossbar arrays for simultaneous generation of magnetic and dielectric forces, which actuate the particles along highly localized traps. We demonstrate the precise spatiotemporal control of individual particles by tracing complex trajectories in three dimensions and investigate the forces that can be generated along different axes. Furthermore, we show that our approach for particle actuation can be parallelized by simultaneously controlling the position and movement of 16 particles in parallel.
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- Philipp Rinklin
- Institute of Bioelectronics (ICS-8/PGI-8), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany and Neuroelectronics, Munich School of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 11, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Institute of Bioelectronics (ICS-8/PGI-8), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Bioelectronics (ICS-8/PGI-8), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany and Neuroelectronics, Munich School of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 11, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
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Han D, Park JK. Microarray-integrated optoelectrofluidic immunoassay system. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2016; 10:034106. [PMID: 27190571 PMCID: PMC4866943 DOI: 10.1063/1.4950787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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A microarray-based analytical platform has been utilized as a powerful tool in biological assay fields. However, an analyte depletion problem due to the slow mass transport based on molecular diffusion causes low reaction efficiency, resulting in a limitation for practical applications. This paper presents a novel method to improve the efficiency of microarray-based immunoassay via an optically induced electrokinetic phenomenon by integrating an optoelectrofluidic device with a conventional glass slide-based microarray format. A sample droplet was loaded between the microarray slide and the optoelectrofluidic device on which a photoconductive layer was deposited. Under the application of an AC voltage, optically induced AC electroosmotic flows caused by a microarray-patterned light actively enhanced the mass transport of target molecules at the multiple assay spots of the microarray simultaneously, which reduced tedious reaction time from more than 30 min to 10 min. Based on this enhancing effect, a heterogeneous immunoassay with a tiny volume of sample (5 μl) was successfully performed in the microarray-integrated optoelectrofluidic system using immunoglobulin G (IgG) and anti-IgG, resulting in improved efficiency compared to the static environment. Furthermore, the application of multiplex assays was also demonstrated by multiple protein detection.
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- Dongsik Han
- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Chen YH, Wu HF, Amstislavskaya TG, Li CY, Jen CP. A simple electrokinetic protein preconcentrator utilizing nano-interstices. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2016; 10:024121. [PMID: 27158289 PMCID: PMC4833729 DOI: 10.1063/1.4946768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2016] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This work proposes a simple method for creating nanofluidic channels for protein preconcentration through self-assembled gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using the exclusion-enrichment effect. A depletion force is elicited in nano-interstices among self-assembled AuNPs due to the overlap of electrical double layers (EDLs); therefore, proteins quickly accumulate. The experimental results show that the generation of depletion forces is correlated with the size of the AuNPs. The self-assembled monolayer of AuNPs (13 nm in diameter) can successfully preconcentrate proteins through effective EDL overlapping. This approach provides a new process to produce nanochannels that does not require high-voltage or time-consuming fabrication.
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University , Tainan, Taiwan
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- Laboratory of Experimental Models of Emotional Pathology, Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine , Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University , Chia Yi, Taiwan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University , Chia Yi, Taiwan
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Wang JC, Ku HY, Shieh DB, Chuang HS. A bead-based fluorescence immunosensing technique enabled by the integration of Förster resonance energy transfer and optoelectrokinetic concentration. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2016; 10:014113. [PMID: 26865906 PMCID: PMC4733077 DOI: 10.1063/1.4940938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Bead-based immunosensing has been growing as a promising technology in the point-of-care diagnostics due to great flexibility. For dilute samples, functionalized particles can be used to collect dispersed analytes and act as carriers for particle manipulation. To realize rapid and visual immunosensing, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) was used herein to ensure only the diabetic biomarker, lipocalin 1, to be detected. The measurement was made in an aqueous droplet sandwiched between two parallel plate electrodes. With an electric field and a focused laser beam applying on the microchip simultaneously, the immunocomplexes in the droplet were further concentrated to enhance the FRET fluorescent signal. The optoelectrokinetic technique, termed rapid electrokinetic patterning (REP), has been proven to be excellent in dynamic and programmable particle manipulation. Therefore, the detection can be complete within several tens of seconds. The lower detection limit of the REP-enabled bead-based diagnosis reached nearly 5 nM. The combinative use of FRET and the optoelectrokinetic technique for the bead-based immunosensing enables a rapid measure to diagnose early stage diseases and dilute analytes.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University , Tainan, Taiwan
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- Medical Device Innovation Center, National Cheng Kung University , Tainan, Taiwan
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