Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
ACS Nano. 2010 Jan 26;4(1):488-94. doi: 10.1021/nn901404h.
Sensitive and selective detection for cancer biomarkers are critical in cancer clinical diagnostics. Here we developed a microfluidic protein chip for an ultrasensitive and multiplexed assay of cancer biomarkers. Aqueous-phase-synthesized CdTe/CdS quantum dots (aqQDs) were employed as fluorescent signal amplifiers to improve the detection sensitivity. Secondary antibodies (goat anti-mouse IgG) were conjugated to luminescent CdTe/CdS QDs to realize a versatile fluorescent probe that could be used for multiplexed detection in both sandwich and reverse phase immunoassays. We found that our microfluidic protein chip not only possessed ultrahigh femtomolar sensitivity for cancer biomarkers, but was selective enough to be directly used in serum. This protein chip thus combines the high-throughput capabilities of a microfluidic network with the high sensitivity and multicolor imaging ability offered by highly fluorescent QDs, which can become a promising diagnostic tool in clinical applications.
在癌症临床诊断中,对癌症生物标志物进行敏感和选择性检测至关重要。在这里,我们开发了一种用于癌症生物标志物超灵敏和多重分析的微流控蛋白质芯片。水相合成的 CdTe/CdS 量子点(aqQDs)被用作荧光信号放大器,以提高检测灵敏度。将发光 CdTe/CdS QD 与二级抗体(山羊抗小鼠 IgG)偶联,实现了一种多功能荧光探针,可用于夹心和反向相免疫测定中的多重检测。我们发现,我们的微流控蛋白质芯片不仅对癌症生物标志物具有超高的飞摩尔灵敏度,而且具有足够的选择性,可直接用于血清。因此,这种蛋白质芯片将微流控网络的高通量能力与高荧光量子点提供的高灵敏度和多色成像能力相结合,有望成为临床应用中的一种有前途的诊断工具。