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Lane LA, Zhang J, Wang Y. AMP coated SERS NanoTags with hydrophobic locking: Maximizing brightness, stability, and cellular targetability. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 663:295-308. [PMID: 38402824 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.02.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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Developing innovative surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanotags continues to attract significant attention due to their unparalleled sensitivity and specificity for in vitro diagnostic and in vivo tumor imaging applications. Here, we report a new class of bright and stable SERS nanotags using alkylmercaptan-PEG (AMP) polymers. Due to its amphiphilic structure and a thiol anchoring group, these polymers strongly absorb onto gold nanoparticles, leading to an inner hydrophobic layer and an outer hydrophilic PEG layer. The inner hydrophobic layer serves to "lock in" the Raman reporter molecules adsorbed on the particle surface via favorable hydrophobic interactions that also allow denser PEG coatings, which "lock out" other molecules from competitive binding or adsorbing to the gold surface, thereby providing superior colloidal and signal stability. The higher grafting densities of AMP polymers compared to conventional thiolated PEG also led to dramatic increases in cellular target selectivity, with specific-to-nonspecific binding ratios reaching beyond an order of magnitude difference. Experimental evaluations and theoretical considerations of dielectric polarization and light scattering indicate that the hydrophobic layer provides a more favorable dielectric environment with less plasmon dampening, greater particle scattering efficiency, and increased Raman reporter polarizability. Accordingly, SERS nanotags with AMP polymer coatings are observed to be considerably brighter (∼10-fold). Furthermore, the AMP-coated SERS nanotag's increased intensity and avidity can boost cellular detection sensitivity by nearly two orders of magnitude.
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- Lucas A Lane
- International Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Province 210093, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Province 210093, China.
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Yang G, Zhang K, Xu W, Xu S. A review of clinical use of surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based biosensing for glioma. Front Neurol 2024; 15:1287213. [PMID: 38651101 PMCID: PMC11033440 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1287213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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Glioma is the most common malignant tumor of the nervous system in recent centuries, and the incidence rate of glioma is increasing year by year. Its invasive growth and malignant biological behaviors make it one of the most challenging malignant tumors. Maximizing the resection range (EOR) while minimizing the impact on normal brain tissue is crucial for patient prognosis. Changes in metabolites produced by tumor cells and their microenvironments might be important indicators. As a powerful spectroscopic technique, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has many advantages, including ultra-high sensitivity, high specificity, and non-invasive features, which allow SERS technology to be widely applied in biomedicine, especially in the differential diagnosis of malignant tumor tissues. This review first introduced the clinical use of responsive SERS probes. Next, the sensing mechanisms of microenvironment-responsive SERS probes were summarized. Finally, the biomedical applications of these responsive SERS probes were listed in four sections, detecting tumor boundaries due to the changes of pH-responsive SERS probes, SERS probes to guide tumor resection, SERS for liquid biopsy to achieve early diagnosis of tumors, and the application of free-label SERS technology to detect fresh glioma specimens. Finally, the challenges and prospects of responsive SERS detections were summarized for clinical use.
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- Guohui Yang
- China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China
- Center for Supramolecular Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Shen W, Li J, Jiang B, Nie Y, Pang Y, Wang C, Xiao R, Hao R. Electrostatic Adsorption of Dense AuNPs onto Silica Core as High-Performance SERS Tag for Sensitive Immunochromatographic Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pathogens 2023; 12:pathogens12020327. [PMID: 36839599 PMCID: PMC9965993 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12020327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is a prominent pathogen of bacterial pneumonia and its rapid and sensitive detection in complex biological samples remains a challenge. Here, we developed a simple but effective immunochromatographic assay (ICA) based on silica-Au core-satellite (SiO2@20Au) SERS tags to sensitively and quantitatively detect S. pneumoniae. The high-performance SiO2@20Au tags with superior stability and SERS activity were prepared by one-step electrostatic adsorption of dense 20 nm AuNPs onto 180 nm SiO2 core and introduced into the ICA method to ensure the high sensitivity and accuracy of the assay. The detection limit of the proposed SERS-ICA reached 46 cells/mL for S. pneumoniae and was 100-fold more sensitive than the traditional AuNPs-based colorimetric ICA method. Further, considering its good stability, specificity, reproducibility, and easy operation, the SiO2@20Au-SERS-ICA developed here has great potential to meet the demands of on-site and accurate detection of respiratory pathogens.
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- Wanzhu Shen
- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
- Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
- Correspondence: (C.W.); (R.X.); (R.H.)
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- Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, China
- Correspondence: (C.W.); (R.X.); (R.H.)
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
- Correspondence: (C.W.); (R.X.); (R.H.)
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has emerged as a valuable technique for molecular identification. Due to the characteristics of high sensitivity, excellent signal specificity, and photobleaching resistance, SERS has been widely used in the fields of environmental monitoring, food safety, and disease diagnosis. By attaching the organic molecules to the surface of plasmonic nanoparticles, the obtained SERS tags show high-performance multiplexing capability for biosensing. The past decade has witnessed the progress of SERS tags for liquid biopsy, bioimaging, and theranostics applications. This review focuses on the advances of SERS tags in biomedical fields. We first introduce the building blocks of SERS tags, followed by the summarization of recent progress in SERS tags employed for detecting biomarkers, such as DNA, miRNA, and protein in biological fluids, as well as imaging from in vitro cell, bacteria, tissue to in vivo tumors. Further, we illustrate the appealing applications of SERS tags for delineating tumor margins and cancer diagnosis. In the end, perspectives of SERS tags projecting into the possible obstacles are deliberately proposed in future clinical translation.
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Chen YJ, Chen YY, Wang KH, Wang CH, Yang CY, Chau LK, Wang SC. Integration of a Thermoelectric Heating Unit with Ionic Wind-Induced Droplet Centrifugation Chip to Develop Miniaturized Concentration Device for Rapid Determination of Salmonella on Food Samples Using Antibody-Functionalized SERS Tags. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E7177. [PMID: 33333831 DOI: 10.3390/s20247177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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When a centrifugation-enriched sample of 100 μL containing the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tag-bound bacteria (Salmonella in this study) is siphoned onto a glass slide next to an embedded thermoelectric heating chip, such a sessile droplet is quickly evaporated. As the size of the sample droplet is significantly reduced during the heating process, ionic wind streams from a corona discharge needle, stationed above the sample, sweep across the liquid surface to produce centrifugal vortex flow. Tag-bound Salmonella in the sample are then dragged and trapped at the center of droplet bottom. Finally, when the sample is dried, unlike the "coffee ring" effect, the SERS tag-bound Salmonella is concentrated in one small spot to allow sensitive detection of a Raman signal. Compared with our previous electrohydrodynamic concentration device containing only a corona discharge needle, this thermoelectric evaporation-assisted device is more time-effective, with the time of concentrating and drying about 100 μL sample reduced from 2 h to 30 min. Hence, sample throughput can be accelerated with this device for practical use. It is also more sensitive, with SERS detection of a few cells of Salmonella in neat samples achievable. We also evaluated the feasibility of using this device to detect Salmonella in food samples without performing the culturing procedures. Having spiked a few Salmonella cells into ice cubes and lettuce leaves, we use filtration and ultracentrifugation steps to obtain enriched tag-bound Salmonella samples of 200 μL. After loading an aliquot of 100 μL of sample onto this concentration device, the SERS tag signals from samples of 100 g ice cubes containing two Salmonella cells and 20 g lettuce leaf containing 5 Salmonella cells can be successfully detected.
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Xiang S, Ge C, Li S, Chen L, Wang L, Xu Y. In Situ Detection of Endotoxin in Bacteriostatic Process by SERS Chip Integrated Array Microchambers within Bioscaffold Nanostructures and SERS Tags. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:28985-28992. [PMID: 32441909 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In order to achieve real-time and in situ detection of endotoxin, which is an important and significant clinical test index, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) chip integrated array microchambers within bioscaffold nanostructures and a SERS monitoring strategy were proposed in this paper. After sputtering of nanogold on the cicada wing, which was selected as a natural template, and polydimethylsiloxane bonding, array-type chambers within bioscaffold nanostructures were prepared for in situ bacterial culture and monitoring of endotoxin in the bacteriostasis process by SERS. Meanwhile, the SERS tag modified with the DNA aptamer was prepared and added into this complex biochemical reaction to further improve the sensitivity and selectivity. A new method for in situ detection of endotoxin was thus established. The detection time was shortened to 100 s, and the detection limit was as low as 6.25 ng/mL. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was cultured in situ in the chamber of the SERS chip with antimicrobial agents in 0-72 h. The endotoxin released in the antibacterial process was monitored by the designed SERS detection strategy. The results obtained by SERS analysis were consistent with those of the ELISA kit.
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- Songtao Xiang
- Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-Nano Devices and System Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- International R & D Center of Micro-nano Systems and New Materials Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Translational Research for Cancer Metastasis and Individualized Treatment, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Shapingba, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-Nano Devices and System Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- International R & D Center of Micro-nano Systems and New Materials Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-Nano Devices and System Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- International R & D Center of Micro-nano Systems and New Materials Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-Nano Devices and System Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- International R & D Center of Micro-nano Systems and New Materials Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-Nano Devices and System Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
- International R & D Center of Micro-nano Systems and New Materials Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044, China
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