二价适体功能化纳米通道用于简便检测癌细胞衍生的外泌体。
Divalent Aptamer-Functionalized Nanochannels for Facile Detection of Cancer Cell-Derived Exosomes.
机构信息
Department of Food Science and Engineering, College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
出版信息
Sensors (Basel). 2023 Nov 13;23(22):9139. doi: 10.3390/s23229139.
Exosomes are considered potential biomarkers for early screening and accurate non-invasive diagnosis of cancer, so development of innovatively facile approaches for the detection of cancer cell-derived exosomes has become increasingly important. Herein, we propose a facile electrochemical biosensor based on divalent aptamer-functionalized nanochannels for highly efficient detection of cancer cell-derived exosomes. The aptamer against transmembrane receptor protein CD63 and the aptamer targeting membrane protein EpCAM are simultaneously immobilized on the nanochannels to construct the divalent aptamer-functionalized nanochannels. Thus, the target exosomes can be recognized and selectively captured by the functionalized nanochannels in a divalent collaborative manner. The combined exosomes overlay the ion channel effectively and hinder the ionic flow through the nanochannels, resulting in an evidently varied ionic transport behavior corresponding to the abundance of exosomes. The divalent aptamer-functionalized nanochannels can substantially promote the binding stability and enhance the detection specificity, while the sensitivity of detection is improved greatly by virtue of the amplified response of array channels synergized with the electrochemical technique. Therefore, the developed biosensor provides a highly specific, sensitive, and accurate approach for the detection of cancer cell-derived exosomes, which may hold great potential for application in early clinical cancer diagnosis.
外泌体被认为是癌症早期筛查和准确无创诊断的潜在生物标志物,因此,开发创新的简便方法来检测癌细胞衍生的外泌体变得越来越重要。在此,我们提出了一种基于二价适体功能化纳米通道的简便电化学生物传感器,用于高效检测癌细胞衍生的外泌体。针对跨膜受体蛋白 CD63 的适体和针对膜蛋白 EpCAM 的适体同时固定在纳米通道上,构建二价适体功能化纳米通道。因此,目标外泌体可以通过二价协同方式被功能化纳米通道识别和选择性捕获。叠加的外泌体有效地覆盖了离子通道,并阻碍了离子通过纳米通道的流动,从而导致与外泌体丰度相对应的明显变化的离子传输行为。二价适体功能化纳米通道可以显著提高结合稳定性并增强检测特异性,而电化学技术与阵列通道的协同放大响应则大大提高了检测的灵敏度。因此,开发的生物传感器为检测癌细胞衍生的外泌体提供了一种高度特异、灵敏和准确的方法,可能在癌症早期临床诊断中有很大的应用潜力。