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Long GA, Xu Q, Sunkara J, Woodbury R, Brown K, Huang JJ, Xie Z, Chen X, Fu XA, Huang J. A comprehensive meta-analysis and systematic review of breath analysis in detection of COVID-19 through Volatile organic compounds. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2024; 109:116309. [PMID: 38692202 DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic had profound global impacts on daily lives, economic stability, and healthcare systems. Diagnosis of COVID-19 infection via RT-PCR was crucial in reducing spread of disease and informing treatment management. While RT-PCR is a key diagnostic test, there is room for improvement in the development of diagnostic criteria. Identification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath provides a fast, reliable, and economically favorable alternative for disease detection. METHODS This meta-analysis analyzed the diagnostic performance of VOC-based breath analysis in detection of COVID-19 infection. A systematic review of twenty-nine papers using the grading criteria from Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and PRISMA guidelines was conducted. RESULTS The cumulative results showed a sensitivity of 0.92 (95 % CI, 90 %-95 %) and a specificity of 0.90 (95 % CI 87 %-93 %). Subgroup analysis by variant demonstrated strong sensitivity to the original strain compared to the Omicron and Delta variant in detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection. An additional subgroup analysis of detection methods showed eNose technology had the highest sensitivity when compared to GC-MS, GC-IMS, and high sensitivity-MS. CONCLUSION Overall, these results support the use of breath analysis as a new detection method of COVID-19 infection.
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- Grace A Long
- Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Biometrics and Data Science, Fosun Pharma, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA..
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Desmurget C, Perilleux A, Souquet J, Borth N, Douet J. Molecular biomarkers identification and applications in CHO bioprocessing. J Biotechnol 2024:S0168-1656(24)00164-0. [PMID: 38852681 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2024.06.005] [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: 12/18/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Biomarkers are valuable tools in clinical research where they allow to predict susceptibility to diseases, or response to specific treatments. Likewise, biomarkers can be extremely useful in the biomanufacturing of therapeutic proteins. Indeed, constraints such as short timelines and the need to find hyper-productive cells could benefit from a data-driven approach during cell line and process development. Many companies still rely on large screening capacities to develop productive cell lines, but as they reach a limit of production, there is a need to go from empirical to rationale procedures. Similarly, during bioprocessing runs, substrate consumption and metabolism wastes are commonly monitored. None of them possess the ability to predict the culture behavior in the bioreactor. Big data driven approaches are being adapted to the study of industrial mammalian cell lines, enabled by the publication of Chinese hamster and CHO genome assemblies which allowed the use of next-generation sequencing with these cells, as well as continuous proteome and metabolome annotation. However, if these different -omics technologies contributed to the characterization of CHO cells, there is a significant effort remaining to apply this knowledge to biomanufacturing methods. The correlation of a complex phenotype such as high productivity or rapid growth to the presence or expression level of a specific biomarker could save time and effort in the screening of manufacturing cell lines or culture conditions. In this review we will first discuss the different biological molecules that can be identified and quantified in cells, their detection techniques, and associated challenges. We will then review how these markers are used during the different steps of cell line and bioprocess development, and the inherent limitations of this strategy.
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- Caroline Desmurget
- Merck Biotech Development Center, Ares Trading SA (an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Fenil-sur-Corsier, Switzerland
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- Merck Biotech Development Center, Ares Trading SA (an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Fenil-sur-Corsier, Switzerland
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- Merck Biotech Development Center, Ares Trading SA (an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Fenil-sur-Corsier, Switzerland
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Merck Biotech Development Center, Ares Trading SA (an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Fenil-sur-Corsier, Switzerland.
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Zhang M, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Liu K, Li L, Yu Z, Yuan J, Zhang W. An Enzymatically Activated and Catalytic Hairpin Assembly-Driven Intelligent AND-Gated DNA Network for Tumor Molecular Imaging. Anal Chem 2024. [PMID: 38836421 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2024]
Abstract
Due to the potential off-tumor signal leakage and limited biomarker content, there is an urgent need for stimulus-responsive and amplification-based tumor molecular imaging strategies. Therefore, two tetrahedral framework DNA (tFNA-Hs), tFNA-H1AP, and tFNA-H2, were rationally engineered to form a polymeric tFNA network, termed an intelligent DNA network, in an AND-gated manner. The intelligent DNA network was designed for tumor-specific molecular imaging by leveraging the elevated expression of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) in tumor cytoplasm instead of normal cells and the high expression of miRNA-21 in tumor cytoplasm. The activation of tFNA-H1AP can be achieved through specific recognition and cleavage by APE1, targeting the apurinic/apyrimidinic site (AP site) modified within the stem region of hairpin 1 (H1AP). Subsequently, miRNA-21 facilitates the hybridization of activated H1AP on tFNA-H1AP with hairpin 2 (H2) on tFNA-H2, triggering a catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) reaction that opens the H1AP at the vertices of tFNA-H1AP to bind with H2 at the vertices of tFNA-H2 and generate fluorescence signals. Upon completion of hybridization, miRNA-21 is released, initiating the subsequent cycle of the CHA reaction. The AND-gated intelligent DNA network can achieve specific tumor molecular imaging in vivo and also enables risk stratification of neuroblastoma patients.
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- Mengxin Zhang
- Health Commission of Henan Province Key Laboratory for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Tumor, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Rare Diseases, Endocrinology and Metabolism Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China
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- Health Commission of Henan Province Key Laboratory for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Tumor, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Henan Institute for Drug and Medical Device Inspection (Henan Vaccine Issuance Center), Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Children's Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Children's Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Children's Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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- Health Commission of Henan Province Key Laboratory for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Tumor, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Children's Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Disease, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450018, China
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Matos-Sousa JM, Chemelo VS, Frazão DR, Bittencourt LO, de Moura JDM, Mesquita CM, Marañón-Vásquez G, Fagundes NCF, Paranhos LR, Maia LC, Monteiro MC, Lima RR. Is there any association between the presence of biomarkers and apical periodontitis? A systematic review. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1366954. [PMID: 38840914 PMCID: PMC11150667 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1366954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024] Open
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This systematic review aimed to verify whether there is evidence of an association between apical periodontitis and the presence of systemic biomarkers. This study adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - PRISMA. For this, the acronym PECO was used; population (P) of adult humans exposed (E) to the presence of apical periodontitis, compared (C) to adult humans without apical periodontitis, and the outcome (O) of the presence of biomarkers was observed. The articles were searched in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS, Cochrane Library, OpenGray, and Google Scholar grey databases. Subsequently, studies were excluded based on title, abstract, and full article reading, following the eligibility criteria. The methodological quality of the selected studies was evaluated using the Newcastle-Ottawa qualifier. After exclusion, 656 studies were identified, resulting in 17 final articles that were divided into case-control, cross-sectional, and cohort studies. Eight studies were considered to have a low risk of bias, one had a medium risk of bias, and eight had a high risk of bias. In addition, 12 articles evaluated biomarkers in blood plasma, four evaluated them in saliva, and only one evaluated them in gingival crevicular fluid. The results of these studies indicated an association between apical periodontitis and the systemic presence of biomarkers. These markers are mainly related to inflammation, such as interleukins IL-1, IL-2, and IL-6, oxidative markers, such as nitric oxide and superoxide anions, and immunoglobulins IgG and IgM. Systematic review registration https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier (CRD42023493959).
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- José Mário Matos-Sousa
- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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- Department of Preventive and Social Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Preventive and Social Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Functional and Structural Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém-Pará, Brazil
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Tai S, Zhang C, Shi S, Yang K, Han S, Wu J, Zhang S, Zhang K. Excitation wavelength-dependent lanthanide-disalicylaldehyde coordination hybrid capable of distinguishing D 2O from H 2O. Talanta 2024; 271:125732. [PMID: 38309109 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.125732] [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: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 01/28/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
Abstract
The increasing demands in fields of anti-counterfeiting, fluorescence analysis, clinical therapy and LED illumination are urgently eager for more excellent optically switchable luminescent materials with the stable and multimodal fluorescence in single-component matrix. Herein, the lanthanide-disalicylaldehyde coordination hybrid H2Qj4/TbxEuy is proposed as an efficient luminescent matrix to connect terbium sensibilization with ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer) effects, and three multi-emission hybrids are finally designed and synthesized by regulating Tb3+ and Eu3+ ratios. Surprisingly, the H2Qj4/Tb0.91Eu0.09 shows the excitation wavelength-dependent luminescence in solution which originates from two energy transfer ways of terbium sensibilization effect. It exhibits green and red lights under the 369 and 394 nm UV lamp, respectively. Three hybrids are further used as lab-on-a-molecule fluorescent probes to perform multianalyte detection for various solvents by selected fluorescent sensing channels. By means of PCA (principal component analysis) and HCA (hierarchical cluster analysis), all of them can successfully detect and discriminate17 common solvents, especially the H2O and D2O. Moreover, the H2Qj4/Tb0.91Eu0.09 also shows the wide linear responses of H2O content in D2O, discrimination of two-component solvent mixtures, hygroscopicity evaluation of D2O and information encryption which will advance the progress of multimodal luminescent materials and multianalyte chemosensors.
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- Shengdi Tai
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China.
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Kachwala MJ, Hamdard F, Cicek D, Dagci H, Smith CW, Kalla N, Yigit MV. Universal CRISPR-Cas12a and Toehold RNA Cascade Reaction on Paper Substrate for Visual Salmonella Genome Detection. Adv Healthc Mater 2024:e2400508. [PMID: 38683016 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202400508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
Abstract
Salmonella, the most prevalent food-borne pathogen, poses significant medical and economic threats. Swift and accurate on-site identification and serotyping of Salmonella is crucial to curb its spread and contamination. Here, a synthetic biology cascade reaction is presented on a paper substrate using CRISPR-Cas12a and recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), enabling the programming of a standard toehold RNA switch for a genome of choice. This approach employs just one toehold RNA switch design to differentiate between two different Salmonella serotypes, i.e., S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis, without the need for reengineering the toehold RNA switch. The sensor exhibits high sensitivity, capable of visually detecting as few as 100 copies of the whole genome from a model Salmonella pathogen on a paper substrate. Furthermore, this robust assay is successfully applied to detect whole genomes in contaminated milk and lettuce samples, demonstrating its potential in real sample analysis. Due to its versatility and practical features, genomes from different organisms can be detected by merely changing a single RNA element in this universal cell-free cascade reaction.
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- Mahera J Kachwala
- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
- The RNA Institute, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, 12222, USA
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Gao L, Yi K, Tan Y, Guo C, Zheng D, Shen C, Li F. Engineering Gene-Specific DNAzymes for Accessible and Multiplexed Nucleic Acid Testing. JACS AU 2024; 4:1664-1672. [PMID: 38665662 PMCID: PMC11040662 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Revised: 04/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
Abstract
The accurate and timely detection of disease biomarkers at the point-of-care is essential to ensuring effective treatment and epidemiological surveillance. Here, we report the selection and engineering of RNA-cleaving DNAzymes that respond to specific genetic markers and amplify detection signals. Because the target-specific activation of gene-specific DNAzymes (gDz) is like the trans-cleavage activity of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) CRISPR-associated (Cas) machinery, we further developed a CRISPR-like assay using RNA-cleaving DNAzyme coupled with isothermal sequence and signal amplification (CLARISSA) for nucleic acid detection in clinical samples. Building on the high sequence specificity and orthogonality of gDzs, CLARISSA is highly versatile and expandable for multiplex testing. Upon integration with an isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification, CLARISSA enabled the detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 in 189 cervical samples collected from cervical cancer screening participants (n = 189) with 100% sensitivity and 97.4% specificity, respectively. A multiplexed CLARISSA further allowed the simultaneous analyses of HPV16 and HPV18 in 46 cervical samples, which returned clinical sensitivity of 96.3% for HPV16 and 83.3% for HPV18, respectively. No false positives were found throughout our tests. Besides the fluorescence readout using fluorogenic reporter probes, CLARISSA is also demonstrated to be fully compatible with a visual lateral flow readout. Because of the high sensitivity, accessibility, and multiplexity, we believe CLARISSA is an ideal CRISPR-Dx alternative for clinical diagnosis in field-based and point-of-care applications.
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- Lu Gao
- Key
Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education,
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
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- Department
of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Obstetrics and Gynecologic
and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education,
West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education,
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education,
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
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- Department
of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Obstetrics and Gynecologic
and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education,
West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department
of Laboratory Medicine, Med+X Center for Manufacturing, West China
Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education,
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
- Department
of Chemistry, Centre for Biotechnology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
- Department
of Laboratory Medicine, Med+X Center for Manufacturing, West China
Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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Zhang L, Liu Q, Guo Y, Tian L, Chen K, Bai D, Yu H, Han X, Luo W, Feng T, Deng S, Xie G. DNA-based molecular classifiers for the profiling of gene expression signatures. J Nanobiotechnology 2024; 22:189. [PMID: 38632615 PMCID: PMC11025223 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-024-02445-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Although gene expression signatures offer tremendous potential in diseases diagnostic and prognostic, but massive gene expression signatures caused challenges for experimental detection and computational analysis in clinical setting. Here, we introduce a universal DNA-based molecular classifier for profiling gene expression signatures and generating immediate diagnostic outcomes. The molecular classifier begins with feature transformation, a modular and programmable strategy was used to capture relative relationships of low-concentration RNAs and convert them to general coding inputs. Then, competitive inhibition of the DNA catalytic reaction enables strict weight assignment for different inputs according to their importance, followed by summation, annihilation and reporting to accurately implement the mathematical model of the classifier. We validated the entire workflow by utilizing miRNA expression levels for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in clinical samples with an accuracy 85.7%. The results demonstrate the molecular classifier provides a universal solution to explore the correlation between gene expression patterns and disease diagnostics, monitoring, and prognosis, and supports personalized healthcare in primary care.
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- Li Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Clinical Laboratory, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
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Kumar S, Hojamberdiev M, Chakraborty A, Mitra R, Chaurasiya R, Kwoka M, Tiwary CS, Biswas K, Kumar M. Quasicrystal Nanosheet/α-Fe 2O 3 Heterostructure-Based Low Power NO 2 Sensors: Experimental and DFT Studies. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:16687-16698. [PMID: 38517362 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c00201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Industrial emissions, environmental monitoring, and medical fields have put forward huge demands for high-performance and low power consumption sensors. Two-dimensional quasicrystal (2D QC) nanosheets of metallic multicomponent Al70Co10Fe5Ni10Cu5 have emerged as a promising material for gas sensors due to their excellent catalytic and electronic properties. Herein, we demonstrate highly sensitive and selective NO2 sensors developed by low-cost and scalable fabrication techniques using 2D QC nanosheets and α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. The sensitivity (ΔR/R%) of the optimal amount of 2D QC nanosheet-loaded α-Fe2O3 sensor was 32%, which is significantly larger about 3.5 times than bare α-Fe2O3 sensors for 1 ppm of NO2 at 150 °C operating temperature. The sensors exhibited p-type conduction, and resistance was reduced when exposed to NO2, an oxidizing gas. The enhanced sensing characteristics are a result of the formation of nanoheterojunctions between 2D QC and α-Fe2O3, which improved the charge transport and provided a large sensing signal. In addition, the heterojunction sensor demonstrated excellent NO2 selectivity over other oxidizing and reducing gases. Furthermore, density functional theory calculation examines the adsorption energy and charge transfer between NO2 molecules on the α-Fe2O3(110) and QC/α-Fe2O3(110) heterostructure surfaces, which coincides well with the experimental results.
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- Sumit Kumar
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342030, India
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17, Juni 135, Berlin 10623, Germany
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai 601103, India
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- Department of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology and Data Processing, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342030, India
- Department of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology and Data Processing, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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Cao J, Wang M, Han Y, Wang M, Yan H. Hydrophilic molecularly imprinted resin-hexagonal boron nitride composite as a new adsorbent for selective extraction and determination of a carcinoid tumor biomarker in urine. Anal Chim Acta 2024; 1294:342289. [PMID: 38336412 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2024.342289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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BACKGROUND The detection of disease biomarkers in biological samples plays an important role in early diagnosis and treatment of carcinoid tumor. However, due to the complexity of biological samples and the extremely low concentration of disease biomarkers, sample pretreatment is still the bottleneck of achieving accurate quantitative determination. In this work, new hydrophilic molecularly imprinted resin-hexagonal boron nitride (HMIR-h-BN) composites were developed and used as a new solid phase extraction (SPE) adsorbent for selective detection of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), a biomarker of carcinoid tumor, in urine. RESULTS Twenty-two types of HMIR-h-BN were successfully synthesized through growing hydrophilic molecularly imprinted resin on surface of activated two-dimensional h-BN nanosheets, and preparation parameters affecting the adsorption performance of HMIR-h-BN were investigated and optimized through adsorption experiments. HMIR-h-BN #19 (the ratio of resorcinol to hexamethylenetetramine: 6:3; the dosage of h-BN: 300 mg; the dosage of dummy template: 0.12 mmol; the imprinting time: 4 h) has demonstrated to be the optimal material for efficient separation and extraction of 5-HIAA. Combined with HPLC-UV, the limit of detection and the limit of quantification of 5-HIAA in real urine samples were 9.4 ng mL-1 and 31.3 ng mL-1, respectively, the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.9996 in the linear range of 0.1-300 μg mL-1 and the relative recoveries ranged from 86.9 % to 97.7 % with RSD ≤5.1 %. Moreover, after being processed by HMIR-h-BN-SPE, there are no interferences from other peaks at the peak position of 5-HIAA. SIGNIFICANCE The HMIR-h-BN composite has been demonstrated to be capable of selective extraction of 5-HIAA from urine samples and have a significant purification effect. Based on the established HMIR-h-BN-SPE-HPLC-UV method, accurate quantitative determination of 5-HIAA in urine samples was achieved, which is expected to be applied in the early diagnostic of carcinoid tumor.
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- Jiankun Cao
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, School of Life Science, College of Public Health, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China; State Key Laboratory of New Pharmaceutical Preparations and Excipients, Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis of Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, School of Life Science, College of Public Health, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, School of Life Science, College of Public Health, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China.
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, School of Life Science, College of Public Health, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China; State Key Laboratory of New Pharmaceutical Preparations and Excipients, Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis of Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China.
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Lee I, Kwon SJ, Heeger P, Dordick JS. Ultrasensitive ImmunoMag-CRISPR Lateral Flow Assay for Point-of-Care Testing of Urinary Biomarkers. ACS Sens 2024; 9:92-100. [PMID: 38141036 PMCID: PMC11090086 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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Rapid, accurate, and noninvasive detection of biomarkers in saliva, urine, or nasal fluid is essential for the identification, early diagnosis, and monitoring of cancer, organ failure, transplant rejection, vascular diseases, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. We report the development of an Immuno-CRISPR-based lateral flow assay (LFA) using antibody-DNA barcode complexes with magnetic enrichment of the target urinary biomarkers CXCL9 and CXCL10 for naked eye detection (ImmunoMag-CRISPR LFA). An intermediate approach involving a magnetic bead-based Immuno-CRISPR assay (ImmunoMag-CRISPR) resulted in a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.6 pg/mL for CXCL9. This value surpasses the detection limits achieved by previously reported assays. The highly sensitive detection method was then re-engineered into an LFA format with an LOD of 18 pg/mL for CXCL9, thereby enabling noninvasive early detection of acute kidney transplant rejection. The ImmunoMag-CRISPR LFA was tested on 42 clinical urine samples from kidney transplant recipients, and the assay could determine 11 positive and 31 negative urinary samples through a simple visual comparison of the test line and the control line of the LFA strip. The LFA system was then expanded to quantify the CXCL9 and CXCL10 levels in clinical urine samples from images. This approach has the potential to be extended to a wide range of point-of-care tests for highly sensitive biomarker detection.
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- Inseon Lee
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
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- Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
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Omar R, Saliba W, Khatib M, Zheng Y, Pieters C, Oved H, Silberman E, Zohar O, Hu Z, Kloper V, Broza YY, Dvir T, Grinberg Dana A, Wang Y, Haick H. Biodegradable, Biocompatible, and Implantable Multifunctional Sensing Platform for Cardiac Monitoring. ACS Sens 2024; 9:126-138. [PMID: 38170944 PMCID: PMC10825867 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Cardiac monitoring after heart surgeries is crucial for health maintenance and detecting postoperative complications early. However, current methods like rigid implants have limitations, as they require performing second complex surgeries for removal, increasing infection and inflammation risks, thus prompting research for improved sensing monitoring technologies. Herein, we introduce a nanosensor platform that is biodegradable, biocompatible, and integrated with multifunctions, suitable for use as implants for cardiac monitoring. The device has two electrochemical biosensors for sensing lactic acid and pH as well as a pressure sensor and a chemiresistor array for detecting volatile organic compounds. Its biocompatibility with myocytes has been tested in vitro, and its biodegradability and sensing function have been proven with ex vivo experiments using a three-dimensional (3D)-printed heart model and 3D-printed cardiac tissue patches. Moreover, an artificial intelligence-based predictive model was designed to fuse sensor data for more precise health assessment, making it a suitable candidate for clinical use. This sensing platform promises impactful applications in the realm of cardiac patient care, laying the foundation for advanced life-saving developments.
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- Rawan Omar
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 320003, Israel
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- Shmunis
School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Shmunis
School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Shmunis
School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- Department
Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- The
Chaoul Center for Nanoscale Systems, Tel
Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
- Sagol Center
for Regenerative Biotechnology, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa 320003, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou 515063, Guangdong, China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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Yang Z, Song M, Chen Y, Chen F. Bimetallic CuFe Prussian blue analogue cubes enhanced luminol chemiluminesence and its application. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 304:123421. [PMID: 37738766 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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In this paper, bimetallic CuFe Prussian blue analogue (CuFe PBA) was discovered to have oxidase-like activity. Luminol can be oxidized under alkaline conditions without adding other oxidants. The chemiluminescence (CL) intensity produced is more than 1000 times that of the original luminol-NaOH system. Thus, a novel luminol-NaOH-CuFe PBA CL sensor was constructed. The CL intensity of the system would drastically decrease with the addition of uric acid (UA), it served as the foundation for the creation of an enzyme-free CL sensor for the determination of UA. The CL signal intensity of the system showed a linear connection with the square of the UA concentration in the range of 0.25 to 0.45 mmol·L-1, and the limits of detection was 0.10 mmol·L-1. This system could be used to construct an efficient CL sensor for the detection of UA in human serum.
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- Zixin Yang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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An H, Gu Z, Huang Z, Huo T, Xu Y, Dong Y, Wen Y. Novel microneedle platforms for the treatment of wounds by drug delivery: A review. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2024; 233:113636. [PMID: 37979482 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/20/2023]
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The management and treatment of wounds are complex and pose a substantial financial burden to the patient. However, the complex environment of wounds leads to inadequate drug absorption to achieve the desired therapeutic effect. As a novel technological platform, microneedles are widely used in drug delivery because of their multiple drug loading, multistage drug release, and multiple designs of topology. This study systematically summarizes and analyzes the manufacturing methods and limitations of different microneedles, as well as the latest research advances in pain management, drug delivery, and healing promotion, and presents the challenges and opportunities for clinical applications. On this basis, the development of microneedles in external wound repair and management is envisioned, and it is hoped that this study can provide guidelines for the design of microneedle systems in different application contexts, including the selection of materials, preparation methods, and structural design, to achieve better healing and regeneration results.
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- Heng An
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Daxing Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Daxing Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Daxing Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Daxing Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Dental Materials, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing, 100081 China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Daxing Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
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Xiao J, Chen Y, Xu T, Zhang X. Hand-held Raman spectrometer-based flexible plasmonic biosensor for label-free multiplex urinalysis. Talanta 2024; 266:124966. [PMID: 37499361 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Urinalysis is an effective strategy to non-invasively evaluate human health, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) may be a powerful technique for use in detecting analytes in urine. Herein, we report a wearable diaper sensor based on a handheld Raman spectrometer for use in the simple, label-free identification of biomolecules (urea, creatinine, and bilirubin) in urine. The raspberry-shaped Au substrate formed on the surface of an Si wafer provides plasmonic enhancement of the SERS signals, with an excellent uniformity and stability. The SERS sensor combines the advantages of flexibility, portability, and multifunctional detection and may be used in identifying multiple analytes in urine. The sensor exhibits high sensitivities in detecting urea, creatinine, and bilirubin, with respective detection limits of 4.17 × 10-3 M, 5.90 × 10-6 M, and 1.38 × 10-7 M (signal-to-noise ratio = 3). Furthermore, we used the wearable diaper sensor to monitor biomolecules at the diagnostic threshold, facilitating non-invasive diagnosis and medical monitoring of disease-related biomarkers.
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- Jingyu Xiao
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Sensor, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
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Ok J, Park S, Jung YH, Kim TI. Wearable and Implantable Cortisol-Sensing Electronics for Stress Monitoring. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2211595. [PMID: 36917076 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202211595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Cortisol is a steroid hormone that is released from the body in response to stress. Although a moderate level of cortisol secretion can help the body maintain homeostasis, excessive secretion can cause various diseases, such as depression and anxiety. Conventional methods for cortisol measurement undergo procedures that limit continuous monitoring, typically collecting samples of bodily fluids, followed by separate analysis in a laboratory setting that takes several hours. Thus, recent studies demonstrate wearable, miniaturized sensors integrated with electronic modules that enable wireless real-time analysis. Here, the primary focus is on wearable and implantable electronic devices that continuously measure cortisol concentration. Diverse types of cortisol-sensing techniques, such as antibody-, DNA-aptamer-, and molecularly imprinted polymer-based sensors, as well as wearable and implantable devices that aim to continuously monitor cortisol in a minimally invasive fashion are discussed. In addition to the cortisol monitors that directly measure stress levels, other schemes that indirectly measure stress, such as electrophysiological signals and sweat are also summarized. Finally, the challenges and future directions in stress monitoring and management electronics are reviewed.
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- Jehyung Ok
- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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Omar R, Zheng Y, Haick H. Protocol to fabricate wearable stretchable microneedle-based sensors. STAR Protoc 2023; 4:102751. [PMID: 37999973 PMCID: PMC10709397 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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Creating highly stretchable and robust electrodes while retaining conductivity and stability is challenging. Furthermore, combining these elastic parts with rigid ones brings its own problems due to the discrepancy in firmness between the flexible patches and rigid constructions. Here, we present a protocol to create a stable, conductive, and flexible microneedle sensor patch. We describe steps for using polystyrene-block-polyisoprene-block-polystyrene with silver nanowires, besides fabricating rigid microneedles and combining them together using a thickness-gradient strategy. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Zheng et al. (2022).1.
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- Rawan Omar
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel; Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GJ, UK.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
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Zhang Y, Chen D, He W, Chen N, Zhou L, Yu L, Yang Y, Yuan Q. Interface-Engineered Field-Effect Transistor Electronic Devices for Biosensing. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023:e2306252. [PMID: 38048547 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202306252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 09/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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Promising advances in molecular medicine have promoted the urgent requirement for reliable and sensitive diagnostic tools. Electronic biosensing devices based on field-effect transistors (FETs) exhibit a wide range of benefits, including rapid and label-free detection, high sensitivity, easy operation, and capability of integration, possessing significant potential for application in disease screening and health monitoring. In this perspective, the tremendous efforts and achievements in the development of high-performance FET biosensors in the past decade are summarized, with emphasis on the interface engineering of FET-based electrical platforms for biomolecule identification. First, an overview of engineering strategies for interface modulation and recognition element design is discussed in detail. For a further step, the applications of FET-based electrical devices for in vitro detection and real-time monitoring in biological systems are comprehensively reviewed. Finally, the key opportunities and challenges of FET-based electronic devices in biosensing are discussed. It is anticipated that a comprehensive understanding of interface engineering strategies in FET biosensors will inspire additional techniques for developing highly sensitive, specific, and stable FET biosensors as well as emerging designs for next-generation biosensing electronics.
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- Yun Zhang
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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Li Z, Chen F, Zhu N, Zhang L, Xie Z. Tip-Enhanced Sub-Femtomolar Steroid Immunosensing via Micropyramidal Flexible Conducting Polymer Electrodes for At-Home Monitoring of Salivary Sex Hormones. ACS NANO 2023; 17:21935-21946. [PMID: 37922489 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2023]
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Noninvasive testing and continuous monitoring of ultralow-concentration hormones in biofluids have attracted increasing interest for health management and personalized medicine, in which saliva could fulfill the demand. Steroid sex hormones such as progesterone (P4) and β-estradiol (E2) are crucial for female wellness and reproduction; however, their concentrations in saliva can vary down to sub-pM and constantly fluctuate over several orders of magnitude. This remains a major obstacle toward user-friendly and reliable monitoring at home with low-cost flexible biosensors. Herein we introduce a 3D micropyramidal electrode architecture to address such challenges and achieve an ultrasensitive flexible electrochemical immunosensor with sub-fM-level detection capability of salivary sex hormones within a few minutes. This is enabled by micropyramidal electrode arrays consisting of a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) thin film as the coating layer and electrochemically decorated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to improve the antibody immobilization. The enhanced mass transport around the 3D tips provided by the micropyramidal architecture is discovered to improve the detection limit by 3 orders of magnitude, pushing it to as low as ∼100 aM for P4 and ∼20 aM for E2, along with a wide linear range up to μM. Accordingly, these hormones down to sub-fM in >1000-fold-diluted saliva samples can be accurately measured by the printed soft immunosensors, thus allowing at-home testing through simple saliva dilution to minimize the interfering substances instead of centrifugation. Finally, monitoring of the female ovarian hormone cycle of both P4 and E2 is successfully demonstrated based on the centrifuge-free saliva testing during a period of 4 weeks. This ultrasensitive and soft 3D microarchitected electrode design is believed to provide a universal platform for a diverse variety of applications spanning from accurate clinical diagnostics and counselling and in vivo detection of bioactive species to environmental and food quality tracing.
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- Zhaoxian Li
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- Zhang Dayu School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, People's Republic of China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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Dashtian K, Binabaji F, Zare-Dorabei R. Enhancing On-Skin Analysis: A Microfluidic Device and Smartphone Imaging Module for Real-Time Quantitative Detection of Multianalytes in Sweat. Anal Chem 2023; 95:16315-16326. [PMID: 37897415 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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Wearable sweat sensors present exciting opportunities for advancing personal health monitoring and noninvasive biomarker measurements. However, existing sensors often fall short in accurate detection of low analyte volumes and concentrations and lack multimodal sensing capabilities. Herein, we present a highly portable four-channel microfluidic device capable of conducting simultaneous sweat sampling and fluorometric sensing of potential biomarkers, such as l-Tyr, l-Trp, Crt, and NH4+, specifically designed for kidney disease monitoring. Our microfluidic device seamlessly integrates with smartphones, facilitating easy data retrieval and analysis. The core of the sensing array is a novel fluorometric solid-state mechanism utilizing carbon polymer dots derived from dopamine, catechol, and o-phenylenediamine monomers embedded in gelatin hydrogels. The sensors exhibit exceptional performance, offering linear ranges of 5-275, 6-170, 4-220, and 5-170 μM, with impressively low detection limits of 1.5, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 μM for l-Tyr, l-Trp, Crt, and NH4+, respectively. Through meticulous optimization of operational variables, comprising the temperature, sample volume, and assay time, we achieved the best performance of the device. Furthermore, the sensors exhibited remarkable selectivity, effectively distinguishing between biologically similar species and other potential biological compounds found in sweat. Our evaluation also extended to monitoring kidney diseases in patients and healthy individuals, showcasing the device's utility in world scenarios. Promising results showcase the potential of low-cost, multidiagnostic microfluidic sensor arrays, especially with synthetic skin integration, for enhanced disease detection and healthcare outcomes.
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- Kheibar Dashtian
- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry & Micro and Nano Extraction, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16846-13114, Iran
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- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry & Micro and Nano Extraction, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16846-13114, Iran
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- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry & Micro and Nano Extraction, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16846-13114, Iran
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Åkesson J, Hojjati S, Hellberg S, Raffetseder J, Khademi M, Rynkowski R, Kockum I, Altafini C, Lubovac-Pilav Z, Mellergård J, Jenmalm MC, Piehl F, Olsson T, Ernerudh J, Gustafsson M. Proteomics reveal biomarkers for diagnosis, disease activity and long-term disability outcomes in multiple sclerosis. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6903. [PMID: 37903821 PMCID: PMC10616092 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42682-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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Sensitive and reliable protein biomarkers are needed to predict disease trajectory and personalize treatment strategies for multiple sclerosis (MS). Here, we use the highly sensitive proximity-extension assay combined with next-generation sequencing (Olink Explore) to quantify 1463 proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma from 143 people with early-stage MS and 43 healthy controls. With longitudinally followed discovery and replication cohorts, we identify CSF proteins that consistently predicted both short- and long-term disease progression. Lower levels of neurofilament light chain (NfL) in CSF is superior in predicting the absence of disease activity two years after sampling (replication AUC = 0.77) compared to all other tested proteins. Importantly, we also identify a combination of 11 CSF proteins (CXCL13, LTA, FCN2, ICAM3, LY9, SLAMF7, TYMP, CHI3L1, FYB1, TNFRSF1B and NfL) that predict the severity of disability worsening according to the normalized age-related MS severity score (replication AUC = 0.90). The identification of these proteins may help elucidate pathogenetic processes and might aid decisions on treatment strategies for persons with MS.
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- Julia Åkesson
- Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
- Systems Biology Research Centre, School of Bioscience, University of Skövde, 541 28, Skövde, Sweden
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- Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
- Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology, and Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Systems Biology Research Centre, School of Bioscience, University of Skövde, 541 28, Skövde, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology, and Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden
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- Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden.
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Zhu X, Li Y, Cao P, Li P, Xing X, Yu Y, Guo R, Yang H. Recent Advances of Graphene Quantum Dots in Chemiresistive Gas Sensors. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:2880. [PMID: 37947725 PMCID: PMC10647816 DOI: 10.3390/nano13212880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Graphene quantum dots (GQDs), as 0D graphene nanomaterials, have aroused increasing interest in chemiresistive gas sensors owing to their remarkable physicochemical properties and tunable electronic structures. Research on GQDs has been booming over the past decades, and a number of excellent review articles have been provided on various other sensing principles of GQDs, such as fluorescence-based ion-sensing, bio-sensing, bio-imaging, and electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, and electrochemiluminescence sensing, and therapeutic, energy and catalysis applications. However, so far, there is no single review article on the application of GQDs in the field of chemiresistive gas sensing. This is our primary inspiration for writing this review, with a focus on the chemiresistive gas sensors reported using GQD-based composites. In this review, the various synthesized strategies of GQDs and its composites, gas sensing enhancement mechanisms, and the resulting sensing characteristics are presented. Finally, the current challenges and future prospects of GQDs in the abovementioned application filed have been discussed for the more rational design of advanced GQDs-based gas-sensing materials and innovative gas sensors with novel functionalities.
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- Xiaofeng Zhu
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- Institute for Smart Ageing, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100089, China; (Y.L.); (P.C.); (P.L.); (X.X.); (Y.Y.)
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
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Wakako S, Hori Y, Kinoshita T, Saiki T, Qi X, Hasegawa K, Imai Y, Mori T, Nakagawa K, Fukuhara G. Pressure-Responsive Polymer Chemosensors for Hydrostatic-Pressure-Signal Detection: Poly-l-Lysine-Pyrene Conjugates. ACS Macro Lett 2023; 12:1389-1395. [PMID: 37782005 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Stimulus-responsive polymer materials are an attractive alternative to conventional supramolecular and polymer assemblies for applications in sensing, imaging, and drug-delivery systems. Herein, we synthesized a series of pyrene-labeled α- and ε-poly-l-lysine conjugates with varying degrees of substitution (DSs). Hydrostatic-pressure-UV/vis, fluorescence, and excitation spectroscopies and fluorescence lifetime measurements revealed ground-state conformers and excited-state ensembles emitting fluorescence with variable intensities. The polylysine-based chemosensors demonstrated diverse ratiometric responses to hydrostatic pressure through adjustments in polar solvents, DSs, and polymer backbones. Additionally, the fluorescence chemosensor exhibited a promising glum value of 3.2 × 10-3, indicating potential applications in chiral fluorescent materials. This study offers valuable insights into the development of smart hydrostatic-pressure-responsive polymer materials.
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- Soshi Wakako
- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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Murray DS, Stickel L, Boutelle M. Computational Modeling as a Tool to Drive the Development of a Novel, Chemical Device for Monitoring the Injured Brain and Body. ACS Chem Neurosci 2023; 14:3599-3608. [PMID: 37737666 PMCID: PMC10557062 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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Real-time measurement of dynamic changes, occurring in the brain and other parts of the body, is useful for the detection and tracked progression of disease and injury. Chemical monitoring of such phenomena exists but is not commonplace, due to the penetrative nature of devices, the lack of continuous measurement, and the inflammatory responses that require pharmacological treatment to alleviate. Soft, flexible devices that more closely match the moduli and shape of monitored tissue and allow for surface microdialysis provide a viable alternative. Here, we show that computational modeling can be used to aid the development of such devices and highlight the considerations when developing a chemical monitoring probe in this way. These models pave the way for the development of a new class of chemical monitoring devices for monitoring neurotrauma, organs, and skin.
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- De-Shaine Murray
- Department
of Bioengineering, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, London, U.K.
- School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Yale
University, 06520, New Haven, Connecticut United States
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- Department
of Bioengineering, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, London, U.K.
- Laboratoire
Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department
of Bioengineering, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, London, U.K.
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Sun L, Liu X, Liu S, Chen X, Li Z. Rapid Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Cancers on a LEGO-Inspired Detection Platform via Chemiresistive Profiling of Volatile Metabolites. Anal Chem 2023; 95:14822-14829. [PMID: 37738107 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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Rapid and in situ profiling of volatile metabolites from body fluids represents a new trend in cancer diagnosis and classification in the early stages. We report herein an on-chip strategy that combines an array of conductive nanosensors with a chaotic gas micromixer for real-time monitoring of volatiles from urine and for accurate diagnosis and classification of urinary tract cancers. By integrating a class of LEGO-inspired microchambers immobilized with MXene-based sensing nanofilms and zigzag microfluidic gas channels, it enables the intensive intermingling of volatile organic chemicals with sensor elements that tremendously facilitate their ion-dipole interactions for molecular recognition. Aided with an all-in-one, point-of-care platform and an effective machine-learning algorithm, healthy or diseased samples from subpopulations (i.e., tumor subtypes, staging, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis) of urinary tract cancers can be reliably fingerprinted in a few minutes with high sensitivity and specificity. The developed detection platform has proven to be a noninvasive supplement to the liquid biopsies available for facile screening of urinary tract cancers, which holds great potential for large-scale personalized healthcare in low-resource areas.
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- Linlin Sun
- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Xinxiang Medical University, 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P. R. China
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Jo YM, Jo YK, Lee JH, Jang HW, Hwang IS, Yoo DJ. MOF-Based Chemiresistive Gas Sensors: Toward New Functionalities. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2206842. [PMID: 35947765 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202206842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The sensing performances of gas sensors must be improved and diversified to enhance quality of life by ensuring health, safety, and convenience. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which exhibit an extremely high surface area, abundant porosity, and unique surface chemistry, provide a promising framework for facilitating gas-sensor innovations. Enhanced understanding of conduction mechanisms of MOFs has facilitated their use as gas-sensing materials, and various types of MOFs have been developed by examining the compositional and morphological dependences and implementing catalyst incorporation and light activation. Owing to their inherent separation and absorption properties and catalytic activity, MOFs are applied as molecular sieves, absorptive filtering layers, and heterogeneous catalysts. In addition, oxide- or carbon-based sensing materials with complex structures or catalytic composites can be derived by the appropriate post-treatment of MOFs. This review discusses the effective techniques to design optimal MOFs, in terms of computational screening and synthesis methods. Moreover, the mechanisms through which the distinctive functionalities of MOFs as sensing materials, heterostructures, and derivatives can be incorporated in gas-sensor applications are presented.
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- Young-Moo Jo
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Sentech Gmi Co. Ltd, Seoul, 07548, Republic of Korea
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- SentechKorea Co. Ltd, Paju, 10863, Republic of Korea
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Taneva SG, Todinova S, Andreeva T. Morphometric and Nanomechanical Screening of Peripheral Blood Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy for Label-Free Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14296. [PMID: 37762599 PMCID: PMC10531602 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241814296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) are complex, multifactorial disorders with significant social and economic impact in today's society. NDDs are predicted to become the second-most common cause of death in the next few decades due to an increase in life expectancy but also to a lack of early diagnosis and mainly symptomatic treatment. Despite recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, there are yet no reliable biomarkers identifying the complex pathways contributing to these pathologies. The development of new approaches for early diagnosis and new therapies, together with the identification of non-invasive and more cost-effective diagnostic biomarkers, is one of the main trends in NDD biomedical research. Here we summarize data on peripheral biomarkers, biofluids (cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma), and peripheral blood cells (platelets (PLTs) and red blood cells (RBCs)), reported so far for the three most common NDDs-Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). PLTs and RBCs, beyond their primary physiological functions, are increasingly recognized as valuable sources of biomarkers for NDDs. Special attention is given to the morphological and nanomechanical signatures of PLTs and RBCs as biophysical markers for the three pathologies. Modifications of the surface nanostructure and morphometric and nanomechanical signatures of PLTs and RBCs from patients with AD, PD, and ALS have been revealed by atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM is currently experiencing rapid and widespread adoption in biomedicine and clinical medicine, in particular for early diagnostics of various medical conditions. AFM is a unique instrument without an analog, allowing the generation of three-dimensional cell images with extremely high spatial resolution at near-atomic scale, which are complemented by insights into the mechanical properties of cells and subcellular structures. Data demonstrate that AFM can distinguish between the three pathologies and the normal, healthy state. The specific PLT and RBC signatures can serve as biomarkers in combination with the currently used diagnostic tools. We highlight the strong correlation of the morphological and nanomechanical signatures between RBCs and PLTs in PD, ALS, and AD.
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- Stefka G. Taneva
- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, “Acad. G. Bontchev” Str. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria; (S.T.); (T.A.)
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- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, “Acad. G. Bontchev” Str. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria; (S.T.); (T.A.)
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- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, “Acad. G. Bontchev” Str. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria; (S.T.); (T.A.)
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Reutlingen University, Alteburgstraße 150, D-72762 Reutlingen, Germany
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Lyu S, Dong Z, Xu X, Bei HP, Yuen HY, James Cheung CW, Wong MS, He Y, Zhao X. Going below and beyond the surface: Microneedle structure, materials, drugs, fabrication, and applications for wound healing and tissue regeneration. Bioact Mater 2023; 27:303-326. [PMID: 37122902 PMCID: PMC10140753 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2023.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Microneedle, as a novel drug delivery system, has attracted widespread attention due to its non-invasiveness, painless and simple administration, controllable drug delivery, and diverse cargo loading capacity. Although microneedles are initially designed to penetrate stratum corneum of skin for transdermal drug delivery, they, recently, have been used to promote wound healing and regeneration of diverse tissues and organs and the results are promising. Despite there are reviews about microneedles, few of them focus on wound healing and tissue regeneration. Here, we review the recent advances of microneedles in this field. We first give an overview of microneedle system in terms of its potential cargos (e.g., small molecules, macromolecules, nucleic acids, nanoparticles, extracellular vesicle, cells), structural designs (e.g., multidrug structures, adhesive structures), material selection, and drug release mechanisms. Then we briefly summarize different microneedle fabrication methods, including their advantages and limitations. We finally summarize the recent progress of microneedle-assisted wound healing and tissue regeneration (e.g., skin, cardiac, bone, tendon, ocular, vascular, oral, hair, spinal cord, and uterine tissues). We expect that our article would serve as a guideline for readers to design their microneedle systems according to different applications, including material selection, drug selection, and structure design, for achieving better healing and regeneration efficacy.
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- Shang Lyu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
- State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
- Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
- Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
- Corresponding author.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
- Corresponding author.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
- Corresponding author.
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Yu R, Liu X, Deng X, Li S, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Ke D, Yan R, Wang Q, Tian X, Li M, Zeng X, Hu C. Serum CHI3L1 as a biomarker of interstitial lung disease in rheumatoid arthritis. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1211790. [PMID: 37662936 PMCID: PMC10469784 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1211790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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Background Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a relatively prevalent extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to analyze the association between chitinase-3 like-protein-1(CHI3L1) and the presence of RA-ILD. Methods A total of 239 RA patients fulfilling the American Rheumatism Association (ACR) 1987 revised criteria were enrolled and subclassified as RA-ILD and RA-nILD based on the results of high-resolution computed tomography scans (HRCT) of the chest. The disease activity of RA was assessed by Disease Activity Score for 28 joints (DAS28) and categorized as high, moderate, low, and remission. Chemiluminescence immunoassays were applied to determine the serum levels of CHI3L1. Univariate analysis was performed and the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves were plotted to evaluate the correlation between RA-ILD and CHI3L1. Results Among the eligible RA patients studied, 60 (25.1%) patients were diagnosed with RA-ILD. Compared with RA-nILD, RA patients with ILD had significantly higher median age (median [IQR], 68.00 [62.00-71.75] vs 53.00 [40.00-63.00], p<0.001) and a higher proportion of males (21 (35.0%) vs 30 (16.8%), p=0.003). Notably, differences in DAS28 scores between the two groups were not observed. The serum level of CHI3L1 was significantly higher in RA-ILD patients (median [IQR], 69.69 [44.51-128.66] ng/ml vs 32.19 [21.63-56.99] ng/ml, p<0.001). Furthermore, the areas under the curve (AUC) of CHI3L1 attained 0.74 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.68-0.81, p<0.001) in terms of identifying patients with RA-ILD from those without ILD. Similar trends were seen across the spectrum of disease activity based on DAS28-ESR. Conclusion Our findings of elevated serum CHI3L1 levels in RA-ILD patients suggest its possible role as a biomarker to detect RA-ILD noninvasively.
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- Rui Yu
- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
- Eight-year Medical Doctor Program, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Shunyi District Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
- Medical Science Research Center (MRC), Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
- Eight-year Medical Doctor Program, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Shunyi District Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Shunyi District Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Shunyi District Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Key Laboratory of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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Nicolau I, Hădade ND, Matache M, Funeriu DP. Synthetic Approaches of Epoxysuccinate Chemical Probes. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300157. [PMID: 37096389 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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Synthetic chemical probes are powerful tools for investigating biological processes. They are particularly useful for proteomic studies such as activity-based protein profiling (ABPP). These chemical methods initially used mimics of natural substrates. As the techniques gained prominence, more and more elaborate chemical probes with increased specificity towards given enzyme/protein families and amenability to various reaction conditions were used. Among the chemical probes, peptidyl-epoxysuccinates represent one of the first types of compounds used to investigate the activity of the cysteine protease papain-like family of enzymes. Structurally derived from the natural substrate, a wide body of inhibitors and activity- or affinity-based probes bearing the electrophilic oxirane unit for covalent labeling of active enzymes now exists. Herein, we review the literature regarding the synthetic approaches to epoxysuccinate-based chemical probes together with their reported applications, from biological chemistry and inhibition studies to supramolecular chemistry and the formation of protein arrays.
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- Ioana Nicolau
- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, Research Centre of Applied Organic Chemistry, 90 Panduri Street, 050663, Bucharest, Romania
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- Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Supramolecular and Organometallic Chemistry Centre, 11 Arany Janos Street, 400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, Research Centre of Applied Organic Chemistry, 90 Panduri Street, 050663, Bucharest, Romania
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- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, Research Centre of Applied Organic Chemistry, 90 Panduri Street, 050663, Bucharest, Romania
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Zhao J, He H, Guo J, He Z, Zhao C, Wang H, Gao Z, Song YY. Target-Driven Z-Scheme Heterojunction Formation for ppb H 2S Detection from Exhaled Breath at Room Temperature. ACS Sens 2023; 8:2824-2833. [PMID: 37347220 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c00774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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As a biomarker of periodontitis, sensitive and timely monitoring of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in exhaled breath at room temperature (RT) is important for the early intervention of oral diseases. However, the required high operation temperature to achieve high sensitivity is still a technical challenge for directly monitoring exhaled breath. In this study, by integrating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) into self-aligned TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTs), a chemiresistor gas sensor with outstanding sensitivity and selectivity was constructed for the detection of H2S at RT. The precise regulation of a Co(III)-based MOF CoBDC-NH2 (BDC-NH2 = 2-aminoterephthalic acid) not only induced more active surface for the preconcentration of the target gas but also caused a buildup of Z-scheme heterojunctions in the H2S atmosphere that induced an ultrahigh sensitivity at RT via 365 nm light-emitting diode irradiation. The response and recovery times decreased to ∼50 and ∼28%, respectively, when this system was exposed to UV light. The sensing chips based on the as-prepared TiO2/CoBDC-NH2 NTs exhibited the highest-ranking H2S sensing performance, i.e., a limit of detection of 1.3 ppb and excellent selectivity even to 100 times high concentration of interference gases, owing to the synergistic chemical environment provided by NH2-functionalized Co-MOFs and abundant photogenerated electrons provided by Z-scheme heterojunctions. This sensing chip was also used in a practical application for the timely monitoring of halitosis from direct exhaled breath. This study provides a reliable and sensitive design for clinically aiding the timely detection of H2S in a complex oral environment.
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- Jiahui Zhao
- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
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Abuhasan OM, El-Barghouthi MI, Bodoor K, Rawashdeh AMM, Assaf KI. Molecular recognition of tripeptides containing tryptophan by cucurbit[8]uril: A computational study. ARAB J CHEM 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2023.104819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Wasilewski T, Neubauer D, Wojciechowski M, Szulczyński B, Gębicki J, Kamysz W. Evaluation of Linkers' Influence on Peptide-Based Piezoelectric Biosensors' Sensitivity to Aldehydes in the Gas Phase. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:10610. [PMID: 37445789 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241310610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Recent findings qualified aldehydes as potential biomarkers for disease diagnosis. One of the possibilities is to use electrochemical biosensors in point-of-care (PoC), but these need further development to overcome some limitations. Currently, the primary goal is to enhance their metrological parameters in terms of sensitivity and selectivity. Previous findings indicate that peptide OBPP4 (KLLFDSLTDLKKKMSEC-NH2) is a promising candidate for further development of aldehyde-sensitive biosensors. To increase the affinity of a receptor layer to long-chain aldehydes, a structure stabilization of the peptide active site via the incorporation of different linkers was studied. Indeed, the incorporation of linkers improved sensitivity to and binding of aldehydes in comparison to that of the original peptide-based biosensor. The tendency to adopt disordered structures was diminished owing to the implementation of suitable linkers. Therefore, to improve the metrological characteristics of peptide-based piezoelectric biosensors, linkers were added at the C-terminus of OBPP4 peptide (KLLFDSLTDLKKKMSE-linker-C-NH2). Those linkers consist of proteinogenic amino acids from group one: glycine, L-proline, L-serine, and non proteinogenic amino acids from group two: β-alanine, 4-aminobutyric acid, and 6-aminohexanoic acid. Linkers were evaluated with in silico studies, followed by experimental verification. All studied linkers enhanced the detection of aldehydes in the gas phase. The highest difference in frequency (60 Hz, nonanal) was observed between original peptide-based biosensors and ones based on peptides modified with the GSGSGS linker. It allowed evaluation of the limit of detection for nonanal at the level of 2 ppm, which is nine times lower than that of the original peptide. The highest sensitivity values were also obtained for the GSGSGS linker: 0.3312, 0.4281, and 0.4676 Hz/ppm for pentanal, octanal, and nonanal, respectively. An order of magnitude increase in sensitivity was observed for the six linkers used. Generally, the linker's rigidity and the number of amino acid residues are much more essential for biosensors' metrological characteristics than the amino acid sequence itself. It was found that the longer the linkers, the better the effect on docking efficiency.
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- Tomasz Wasilewski
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland
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Li J, Hannon A, Yu G, Idziak LA, Sahasrabhojanee A, Govindarajan P, Maldonado YA, Ngo K, Abdou JP, Mai N, Ricco AJ. Electronic Nose Development and Preliminary Human Breath Testing for Rapid, Non-Invasive COVID-19 Detection. ACS Sens 2023; 8:2309-2318. [PMID: 37224474 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c00367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We adapted an existing, spaceflight-proven, robust "electronic nose" (E-Nose) that uses an array of electrical resistivity-based nanosensors mimicking aspects of mammalian olfaction to conduct on-site, rapid screening for COVID-19 infection by measuring the pattern of sensor responses to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled human breath. We built and tested multiple copies of a hand-held prototype E-Nose sensor system, composed of 64 chemically sensitive nanomaterial sensing elements tailored to COVID-19 VOC detection; data acquisition electronics; a smart tablet with software (App) for sensor control, data acquisition and display; and a sampling fixture to capture exhaled breath samples and deliver them to the sensor array inside the E-Nose. The sensing elements detect the combination of VOCs typical in breath at parts-per-billion (ppb) levels, with repeatability of 0.02% and reproducibility of 1.2%; the measurement electronics in the E-Nose provide measurement accuracy and signal-to-noise ratios comparable to benchtop instrumentation. Preliminary clinical testing at Stanford Medicine with 63 participants, their COVID-19-positive or COVID-19-negative status determined by concomitant RT-PCR, discriminated between these two categories of human breath with a 79% correct identification rate using "leave-one-out" training-and-analysis methods. Analyzing the E-Nose response in conjunction with body temperature and other non-invasive symptom screening using advanced machine learning methods, with a much larger database of responses from a wider swath of the population, is expected to provide more accurate on-the-spot answers. Additional clinical testing, design refinement, and a mass manufacturing approach are the main steps toward deploying this technology to rapidly screen for active infection in clinics and hospitals, public and commercial venues, or at home.
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- Jing Li
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- Variable, Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee 37406, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, United States
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Huang J, Gu H, Wang G, Wu R, Sun M, Chen Z. Visual Sensor Arrays for Distinction of Phenolic Acids Based on Two Single-Atom Nanozymes. Anal Chem 2023. [PMID: 37257081 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Although great achievements have been made in the study of artificial enzymes, the design of nanozymes with high catalytic activities of natural enzymes and the further establishment of sensitive biosensors still remain challenging. Here, two nanozymes, i.e., ZnCoFe three-atom nanozyme (TAzyme) and Sn single-atom nanozyme (SAzyme)/Ti3C2Tx, are developed, which show peroxidase-like catalytic activities by catalyzing the reaction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), 4-aminoantipyrine (4-AAP), and phenolic acids to generate colorimetric reactions. The involvement of different phenolic acids leads to the generation of different color products. These subtle color-variation profiles between these phenolic acids prompt us to exploit an electronic tongue based on the two nanozymes to distinguish phenolic acids. Data interpretation by the pattern recognition method, such as linear discriminant analysis (LDA), displays good clustering separation of six different phenolic acids at concentrations of 0.1 μM to 1 mM, validating the effectiveness of the colorimetric nanozyme sensor array.
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- Juan Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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Zhu J, Ji S, Ren Z, Wu W, Zhang Z, Ni Z, Liu L, Zhang Z, Song A, Lee C. Triboelectric-induced ion mobility for artificial intelligence-enhanced mid-infrared gas spectroscopy. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2524. [PMID: 37130843 PMCID: PMC10154418 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38200-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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Isopropyl alcohol molecules, as a biomarker for anti-virus diagnosis, play a significant role in the area of environmental safety and healthcare relating volatile organic compounds. However, conventional gas molecule detection exhibits dramatic drawbacks, like the strict working conditions of ion mobility methodology and weak light-matter interaction of mid-infrared spectroscopy, yielding limited response of targeted molecules. We propose a synergistic methodology of artificial intelligence-enhanced ion mobility and mid-infrared spectroscopy, leveraging the complementary features from the sensing signal in different dimensions to reach superior accuracy for isopropyl alcohol identification. We pull in "cold" plasma discharge from triboelectric generator which improves the mid-infrared spectroscopic response of isopropyl alcohol with good regression prediction. Moreover, this synergistic methodology achieves ~99.08% accuracy for a precise gas concentration prediction, even with interferences of different carbon-based gases. The synergistic methodology of artificial intelligence-enhanced system creates mechanism of accurate gas sensing for mixture and regression prediction in healthcare.
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- Jianxiong Zhu
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
- Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS (CISM), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
- NUS Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore.
- Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS (CISM), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore.
- NUS Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China.
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Chen X, Zhou S, Wang Y, Zheng L, Guan S, Wang D, Wang L, Guan X. Nanopore Single-molecule Analysis of Biomarkers: Providing Possible Clues to Disease Diagnosis. Trends Analyt Chem 2023; 162:117060. [PMID: 38106545 PMCID: PMC10722900 DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2023.117060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Biomarker detection has attracted increasing interest in recent years due to the minimally or non-invasive sampling process. Single entity analysis of biomarkers is expected to provide real-time and accurate biological information for early disease diagnosis and prognosis, which is critical to the effective disease treatment and is also important in personalized medicine. As an innovative single entity analysis method, nanopore sensing is a pioneering single-molecule detection technique that is widely used in analytical bioanalytical fields. In this review, we overview the recent progress of nanopore biomarker detection as new approaches to disease diagnosis. In highlighted studies, nanopore was focusing on detecting biomarkers of different categories of communicable and noncommunicable diseases, such as pandemic Covid-19, AIDS, cancers, neurologic diseases, etc. Various sensitive and selective nanopore detecting strategies for different types of biomarkers are summarized. In addition, the challenges, opportunities, and direction for future development of nanopore-based biomarker sensors are also discussed.
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- Xiaohan Chen
- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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- Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, IL 60521, USA
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Chongqing, 400714, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine Engineering for Hepatopancreatobiliary Diseases, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 401147, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616, USA
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Xu X, Ma M, Sun T, Zhao X, Zhang L. Luminescent Guests Encapsulated in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Portable Fluorescence Sensor and Visual Detection Applications: A Review. BIOSENSORS 2023; 13:bios13040435. [PMID: 37185510 PMCID: PMC10136468 DOI: 10.3390/bios13040435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have excellent applicability in several fields and have significant structural advantages, due to their open pore structure, high porosity, large specific surface area, and easily modifiable and functionalized porous surface. In addition, a variety of luminescent guest (LG) species can be encapsulated in the pores of MOFs, giving MOFs a broader luminescent capability. The applications of a variety of LG@MOF sensors, constructed by doping MOFs with LGs such as lanthanide ions, carbon quantum dots, luminescent complexes, organic dyes, and metal nanoclusters, for fluorescence detection of various target analyses such as ions, biomarkers, pesticides, and preservatives are systematically introduced in this review. The development of these sensors for portable visual fluorescence sensing applications is then covered. Finally, the challenges that these sectors currently face, as well as the potential for future growth, are briefly discussed.
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- Xu Xu
- College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, No. 66 Chongshan Middle Road, Shenyang 110036, China
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- College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, No. 66 Chongshan Middle Road, Shenyang 110036, China
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- College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, No. 66 Chongshan Middle Road, Shenyang 110036, China
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- Ecology and Environmental Monitoring Center of Jilin Province, Changchun 130011, China
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- College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, No. 66 Chongshan Middle Road, Shenyang 110036, China
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Oliveira AR, Costa HMA, Ramou E, Palma SICJ, Roque ACA. Effect of Polymer Hydrophobicity in the Performance of Hybrid Gel Gas Sensors for E-Noses. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:3531. [PMID: 37050591 PMCID: PMC10098550 DOI: 10.3390/s23073531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Relative humidity (RH) is a common interferent in chemical gas sensors, influencing their baselines and sensitivity, which can limit the performance of e-nose systems. Tuning the composition of the sensing materials is a possible strategy to control the impact of RH in gas sensors. Hybrid gel materials used as gas sensors contain self-assembled droplets of ionic liquid and liquid crystal molecules encapsulated in a polymeric matrix. In this work, we assessed the effect of the matrix hydrophobic properties in the performance of hybrid gel materials for VOC sensing in humid conditions (50% RH). We used two different polymers, the hydrophobic PDMS and the hydrophilic bovine gelatin, as polymeric matrices in hybrid gel materials containing imidazolium-based ionic liquids, [BMIM][Cl] and [BMIM][DCA], and the thermotropic liquid crystal 5CB. Better accuracy of VOC prediction is obtained for the hybrid gels composed of a PDMS matrix combined with the [BMIM][Cl] ionic liquid, and the use of this hydrophobic matrix reduces the effect of humidity on the sensing performance when compared to the gelatin counterpart. VOCs interact with all the moieties of the hybrid gel multicomponent system; thus, VOC correct classification depends not only on the polymeric matrix used, but also on the IL selected, which seems to be key to achieve VOCs discrimination at 50% RH. Thus, hybrid gels' tunable formulation offers the potential for designing complementary sensors for e-nose systems operable under different RH conditions.
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- Ana Rita Oliveira
- Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB—Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Wei Y, Qi H, Zhang C. Recent advances and challenges in developing electrochemiluminescence biosensors for health analysis. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:3507-3522. [PMID: 36820650 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc06930j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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This Feature Article simply introduces principles and mechanisms of electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensors for the determination of biomarkers and highlights recent advances of ECL biosensors on key aspects including new ECL reagents and materials, new biological recognition elements, and emerging construction biointerfacial strategies with illustrative examples and a critical eye on pitfalls and discusses challenges and perspectives of ECL biosensors for health analysis.
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- Yuxi Wei
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China.
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Einoch Amor R, Levy J, Broza YY, Vangravs R, Rapoport S, Zhang M, Wu W, Leja M, Behar JA, Haick H. Liquid Biopsy-Based Volatile Organic Compounds from Blood and Urine and Their Combined Data Sets for Highly Accurate Detection of Cancer. ACS Sens 2023; 8:1450-1461. [PMID: 36926819 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Liquid biopsy is seen as a prospective tool for cancer screening and tracking. However, the difficulty lies in effectively sieving, isolating, and overseeing cancer biomarkers from the backdrop of multiple disrupting cells and substances. The current study reports on the ability to perform liquid biopsy without the need to physically filter and/or isolate the cancer cells per se. This has been achieved through the detection and classification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from the cancer cells found in the headspace of blood or urine samples or a combined data set of both. Spectrometric analysis shows that blood and urine contain complementary or overlapping VOC information on kidney cancer, gastric cancer, lung cancer, and fibrogastroscopy subjects. Based on this information, a nanomaterial-based chemical sensor array in conjugation with machine learning as well as data fusion of the signals achieved was carried out on various body fluids to assess the VOC profiles of cancer. The detection of VOC patterns by either Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis or our sensor array achieved >90% accuracy, >80% sensitivity, and >80% specificity in different binary classification tasks. The hybrid approach, namely, analyzing the VOC datasets of blood and urine together, contributes an additional discrimination ability to the improvement (>3%) of the model's accuracy. The contribution of the hybrid approach for an additional discrimination ability to the improvement of the model's accuracy is examined and reported.
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- Reef Einoch Amor
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- The Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine & Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga LV-1004, Latvia.,Department of Research, Riga East University Hospital, Digestive Diseases Centre GASTRO, Riga 1586, Latvia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Smart Sensors, Xidian University, Shaanxi 710126, P.R. China
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- Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine & Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga LV-1004, Latvia.,Department of Research, Riga East University Hospital, Digestive Diseases Centre GASTRO, Riga 1586, Latvia
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- The Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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Liu H, Zhao Y, Liu Y, Liang T, Tian Y, Sakthivel T, Peng S, Kim SY, Dai Z. Macroporous SnO 2/MoS 2 inverse opal hierarchitecture for highly efficient trace NO 2 gas sensing. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:2931-2934. [PMID: 36799233 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc06656d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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The innovation of NO2 gas sensors is highly desirable in environmental monitoring and human safety. Herein, a macroporous SnO2/MoS2 inverse opal hierarchitecture has been constructed with substantial interface charge transfer, which realizes the efficient and stable detection of NO2 with an enhanced response, fast kinetics, and high selectivity at low temperatures.
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- Hang Liu
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China. .,Xi'an Jiaotong University Suzhou Institute, Suzhou 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
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- College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Green Manufacturing Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
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Deng Z, Guo L, Chen X, Wu W. Smart Wearable Systems for Health Monitoring. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:s23052479. [PMID: 36904682 PMCID: PMC10007426 DOI: 10.3390/s23052479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Smart wearable systems for health monitoring are highly desired in personal wisdom medicine and telemedicine. These systems make the detecting, monitoring, and recording of biosignals portable, long-term, and comfortable. The development and optimization of wearable health-monitoring systems have focused on advanced materials and system integration, and the number of high-performance wearable systems has been gradually increasing in recent years. However, there are still many challenges in these fields, such as balancing the trade-off between flexibility/stretchability, sensing performance, and the robustness of systems. For this reason, more evolution is required to promote the development of wearable health-monitoring systems. In this regard, this review summarizes some representative achievements and recent progress of wearable systems for health monitoring. Meanwhile, a strategy overview is presented about selecting materials, integrating systems, and monitoring biosignals. The next generation of wearable systems for accurate, portable, continuous, and long-term health monitoring will offer more opportunities for disease diagnosis and treatment.
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- Zhiyong Deng
- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
- Nuclear Power Institute of China, Huayang, Shuangliu District, Chengdu 610213, China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Smart Sensors, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Smart Sensors, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
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Wang Z, Hu J, Lu J, Zhu X, Zhou X, Huang L, Chi L. Charge Transport Manipulation via Interface Doping: Achieving Ultrasensitive Organic Semiconductor Gas Sensors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:8355-8366. [PMID: 36735056 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c20391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Organic semiconductor (OSC) gas sensors are receiving tremendous attention with the rise of wearable devices. Due to the complicated charge transport characteristics of OSCs, it is usually difficult to optimize their gas sensitivity by directly tailoring the original signals, as in many other kinds of sensors. Instead, device engineering strategies are frequently centered on enhancing the gas-film interaction. Herein, by introducing interface doping between self-assembled monolayers and triisopropylsilylethynyl-substituted pentacene films, we report a wide tuning of OSC gas sensitivity via charge transport manipulation and achieve an ultrahigh sensitivity of nearly 2000%/ppm to NO2, simultaneously resulting in a fast square-wave-like response feature. In addition, this sensor demonstrates good humidity stability and operates well in flexible devices. More importantly, we identify that charge transport manipulation tailors the gas sensibility of OSCs by means of electronic structure instead of original signal values: compared to shallow traps, the presence of proper deep traps is conducive to gaining high sensitivity and ultrafast response/recovery speeds. This approach is also effective for tuning the sensitivity to reductive gases, verifying its generality for promoting the performance of OSC gas sensors, as well as a promising strategy for other types of sensors or detectors.
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- Zi Wang
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
- Gusu Laboratory of Materials, 388 Ruoshui Road, Suzhou 215123, P.R. China
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- Suzhou Key Laboratory for Nanophotonic and Nanoelectronic Materials and Its Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province 215009, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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Jeong JY, Kim SO, Bang S, Choi Y, Shin J, Choi D, Lee SE, Park TH, Hong S. Adaptive biosensing platform using immune cell-based nanovesicles for food allergen detection. Biosens Bioelectron 2023; 222:114914. [PMID: 36456386 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Inspired by an adaptive immune system, we have developed a bioelectronic sensing platform which relies on nanovesicles for a signal amplification and can be easily adapted for the detection of new food allergens. In this work, nanovesicles with anti-immunoglobulin E (anti-IgE) antibody receptors were extracted from immune cells and immobilized on a carbon nanotube-based transistor to build a highly sensitive and selective biosensing platform. Our sensor could detect peanut allergen, arachis hypogaea 2 (Ara h 2), down to 0.1 fM and selectively discriminate target allergens in real food samples such as peanut and egg white. As a proof of concept, we demonstrated the detection of different target molecules using the same nanovesicles linked with different antibodies. Our sensor platform was also utilized to quantitatively evaluate the effect of allergy drug such as cromolyn. In this regard, our strategy can be utilized for basic research and versatile applications in food and pharmacological industries.
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- Jin-Young Jeong
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea; Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.
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Dong T, Matos Pires NM, Yang Z, Jiang Z. Advances in Electrochemical Biosensors Based on Nanomaterials for Protein Biomarker Detection in Saliva. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 10:e2205429. [PMID: 36585368 PMCID: PMC9951322 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202205429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The focus on precise medicine enhances the need for timely diagnosis and frequent monitoring of chronic diseases. Moreover, the recent pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 poses a great demand for rapid detection and surveillance of viral infections. The detection of protein biomarkers and antigens in the saliva allows rapid identification of diseases or disease changes in scenarios where and when the test response at the point of care is mandated. While traditional methods of protein testing fail to provide the desired fast results, electrochemical biosensors based on nanomaterials hold perfect characteristics for the detection of biomarkers in point-of-care settings. The recent advances in electrochemical sensors for salivary protein detection are critically reviewed in this work, with emphasis on the role of nanomaterials to boost the biosensor analytical performance and increase the reliability of the test in human saliva samples. Furthermore, this work identifies the critical factors for further modernization of the nanomaterial-based electrochemical sensors, envisaging the development and implementation of next-generation sample-in-answer-out systems.
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- Tao Dong
- Department of Microsystems‐ IMSFaculty of TechnologyNatural Sciences and Maritime SciencesUniversity of South‐Eastern Norway‐USNP.O. Box 235Kongsberg3603Norway
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Systems and Intelligent TransductionCollaborative Innovation Center on Micro‐Nano Transduction and Intelligent Eco‐Internet of ThingsChongqing Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities on Micro‐Nano Systems Technology and Smart TransducingNational Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing ServiceChongqing Technology and Business UniversityNan'an DistrictChongqing400067China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Systems and Intelligent TransductionCollaborative Innovation Center on Micro‐Nano Transduction and Intelligent Eco‐Internet of ThingsChongqing Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities on Micro‐Nano Systems Technology and Smart TransducingNational Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing ServiceChongqing Technology and Business UniversityNan'an DistrictChongqing400067China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Systems and Intelligent TransductionCollaborative Innovation Center on Micro‐Nano Transduction and Intelligent Eco‐Internet of ThingsChongqing Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities on Micro‐Nano Systems Technology and Smart TransducingNational Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing ServiceChongqing Technology and Business UniversityNan'an DistrictChongqing400067China
- State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems EngineeringInternational Joint Laboratory for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement TechnologyXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an710049China
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Das R, Nag S, Banerjee P. Electrochemical Nanosensors for Sensitization of Sweat Metabolites: From Concept Mapping to Personalized Health Monitoring. Molecules 2023; 28:1259. [PMID: 36770925 PMCID: PMC9920341 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28031259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Sweat contains a broad range of important biomarkers, which may be beneficial for acquiring non-invasive biochemical information on human health status. Therefore, highly selective and sensitive electrochemical nanosensors for the non-invasive detection of sweat metabolites have turned into a flourishing contender in the frontier of disease diagnosis. A large surface area, excellent electrocatalytic behavior and conductive properties make nanomaterials promising sensor materials for target-specific detection. Carbon-based nanomaterials (e.g., CNT, carbon quantum dots, and graphene), noble metals (e.g., Au and Pt), and metal oxide nanomaterials (e.g., ZnO, MnO2, and NiO) are widely used for modifying the working electrodes of electrochemical sensors, which may then be further functionalized with requisite enzymes for targeted detection. In the present review, recent developments (2018-2022) of electrochemical nanosensors by both enzymatic as well as non-enzymatic sensors for the effectual detection of sweat metabolites (e.g., glucose, ascorbic acid, lactate, urea/uric acid, ethanol and drug metabolites) have been comprehensively reviewed. Along with this, electrochemical sensing principles, including potentiometry, amperometry, CV, DPV, SWV and EIS have been briefly presented in the present review for a conceptual understanding of the sensing mechanisms. The detection thresholds (in the range of mM-nM), sensitivities, linear dynamic ranges and sensing modalities have also been properly addressed for a systematic understanding of the judicious design of more effective sensors. One step ahead, in the present review, current trends of flexible wearable electrochemical sensors in the form of eyeglasses, tattoos, gloves, patches, headbands, wrist bands, etc., have also been briefly summarized, which are beneficial for on-body in situ measurement of the targeted sweat metabolites. On-body monitoring of sweat metabolites via wireless data transmission has also been addressed. Finally, the gaps in the ongoing research endeavors, unmet challenges, outlooks and future prospects have also been discussed for the development of advanced non-invasive self-health-care-monitoring devices in the near future.
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- Riyanka Das
- Surface Engineering & Tribology Group, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur 713209, West Bengal, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Surface Engineering & Tribology Group, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur 713209, West Bengal, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Surface Engineering & Tribology Group, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur 713209, West Bengal, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Fontaine N, Harter L, Marette A, Boudreau D. Acting as a Molecular Tailor: Dye Structural Modifications for Improved Sensitivity toward Lysophosphatidic Acids Sensing. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:1067-1078. [PMID: 36643514 PMCID: PMC9835520 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c06420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Lysophosphatidic acids (LPA) are key biomarkers for several physiological processes, the monitoring of which can provide insights into the host's health. Common lab-based techniques for their detection are cumbersome, expensive, and necessitate specialized personnel to operate. LPA-sensitive fluorescent probes have been described, albeit for nonaqueous conditions, which impedes their use in biological matrices. In this paper, we explore in detail the influence of structure on the extent of aggregation-induced fluorescence quenching using specially synthesized styrylpyridinium dyes bearing structural adaptations to bestow them enhanced affinity toward LPA in aqueous media. Spectroscopic investigations supported by time-resolved fluorimetry revealed the contribution of excimer formation to the fluorescence quenching mechanism displayed by the fluorescent probes. Experimental observations of the influence of structure on detection sensitivity were supported by DFT calculations.
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- Nicolas Fontaine
- Department
of Chemistry, Université Laval, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Center
for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, Université
Laval, 2375 rue de la
Terrasse, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
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- Department
of Chemistry, Université Laval, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Center
for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, Université
Laval, 2375 rue de la
Terrasse, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
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- Quebec
Heart and Lung Institute, Université
Laval, 2725, chemin Sainte-Foy, Québec, CanadaG1V 4G5
- Institute
of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Université
Laval, 2440, boulevard
Hochelaga, Québec, QC, CanadaG1V 0A6
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- Department
of Chemistry, Université Laval, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
- Center
for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, Université
Laval, 2375 rue de la
Terrasse, Québec, CanadaG1V 0A6
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Mohammadpour-Haratbar A, Boraei SBA, Zare Y, Rhee KY, Park SJ. Graphene-Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Breast Cancer Detection. BIOSENSORS 2023; 13:bios13010080. [PMID: 36671915 PMCID: PMC9855997 DOI: 10.3390/bios13010080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women, which is also the second most public cancer worldwide. When detected early, BC can be treated more easily and prevented from spreading beyond the breast. In recent years, various BC biosensor strategies have been studied, including optical, electrical, electrochemical, and mechanical biosensors. In particular, the high sensitivity and short detection time of electrochemical biosensors make them suitable for the recognition of BC biomarkers. Moreover, the sensitivity of the electrochemical biosensor can be increased by incorporating nanomaterials. In this respect, the outstanding mechanical and electrical performances of graphene have led to an increasingly intense study of graphene-based materials for BC electrochemical biosensors. Hence, the present review examines the latest advances in graphene-based electrochemical biosensors for BC biosensing. For each biosensor, the detection limit (LOD), linear range (LR), and diagnosis technique are analyzed. This is followed by a discussion of the prospects and current challenges, along with potential strategies for enhancing the performance of electrochemical biosensors.
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- Ali Mohammadpour-Haratbar
- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran 1715424313, Iran
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- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran 1715424313, Iran
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- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Interdisciplinary Technologies, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran 1715424313, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering (BK21 Four), College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
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Nicoliche CYN, da Silva GS, Gomes-de-Pontes L, Schleder GR, Lima RS. Single-Response Electronic Tongue and Machine Learning Enable the Multidetermination of Extracellular Vesicle Biomarkers for Cancer Diagnostics Without Recognition Elements. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2679:83-94. [PMID: 37300610 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3271-0_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Platforms based on impedimetric electronic tongue (nonselective sensor) and machine learning are promising to bring disease screening biosensors into mainstream use toward straightforward, fast, and accurate analyses at the point-of-care, thus contributing to rationalize and decentralize laboratory tests with social and economic impacts being achieved. By combining a low-cost and scalable electronic tongue with machine learning, in this chapter, we describe the simultaneous determination of two extracellular vesicle (EV) biomarkers, i.e., the concentrations of EV and carried proteins, in mice blood with Ehrlich tumor from a single impedance spectrum without using biorecognizing elements. This tumor shows primary features of mammary tumor cells. Pencil HB core electrodes are integrated into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chip. The platform shows the highest throughput in comparison with the methods addressed in the literature to determine EV biomarkers.
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- Caroline Y N Nicoliche
- Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Campinas, SP, Brazil
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
- São Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
- Federal University of ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
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