TY - JOUR
T1 - Microfluidics & nanotechnology: Towards fully integrated analytical devices for the detection of cancer biomarkers
AU - Perozziello, Gerardo
AU - Candeloro, Patrizio
AU - Gentile, Francesco T.
AU - Nicastri, Annalisa
AU - Perri, Angela Mena
AU - Coluccio, Maria Laura
AU - Adamo, A.
AU - Pardeo, Francesca
AU - Catalano, Rossella
AU - Parrotta, Elvira
AU - Espinosa, Horacio Dante
AU - Cuda, Giovanni
AU - Di Fabrizio, Enzo M.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was partially supported by the European project EUROMBR (grant no. 608104), Cariplo Foundation under the project "New Frontiers in Plasmonic Nanosensing" (Grant no. 2011-0338) the projects PON01_02834 "Prometeo", PONa3_00435 "Biomedpark@UMG" and FIRB "ReteNazionale di Ricerca sulle Nanoscienze ItalNanoNet" (cod. RBPR05JH2P_010, CUPB41J09000110005) financed from the Ministry of Education and Research, the project for Young researchers financed from the Ministry of Health "High Troughput analysis of cancer cells for therapy evaluation by microfluidic platforms integrating plasmonic nanodevices" (CUP J65C13001350001, project no. GR-2010-2311677) and Cancer biomarker detection using micro-structured/superhydrophobic surfaces and advanced spectroscopy techniques (CUP J65C13001370001, project no. GR-2010-2320665) granted to the nanotechnology laboratory of the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, we describe an innovative modular microfluidic platform allowing filtering, concentration and analysis of peptides from a complex mixture. The platform is composed of a microfluidic filtering device and a superhydrophobic surface integrating surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors. The microfluidic device was used to filter specific peptides (MW 1553.73 D) derived from the BRCA1 protein, a tumor-suppressor molecule which plays a pivotal role in the development of breast cancers, from albumin (66.5 KD), the most represented protein in human plasma. The filtering process consisted of driving the complex mixture through a porous membrane having a cut-off of 12-14 kD by hydrodynamic flow. The filtered samples coming out of the microfluidic device were subsequently deposited on a superhydrophobic surface formed by micro pillars on top of which nanograins were fabricated. The nanograins coupled to a Raman spectroscopy instrument acted as a SERS sensor and allowed analysis of the filtered sample on top of the surface once it evaporated. By using the presented platform, we demonstrate being able to sort small peptides from bigger proteins and to detect them by using a label-free technique at a resolution down to 0.1 ng μL-1. The combination of microfluidics and nanotechnology to develop the presented microfluidic platform may give rise to a new generation of biosensors capable of detecting low concentration samples from complex mixtures without the need for any sample pretreatment or labelling. The developed devices could have future applications in the field of early diagnosis of severe illnesses, e.g. early cancer detection. This journal is
AB - In this paper, we describe an innovative modular microfluidic platform allowing filtering, concentration and analysis of peptides from a complex mixture. The platform is composed of a microfluidic filtering device and a superhydrophobic surface integrating surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors. The microfluidic device was used to filter specific peptides (MW 1553.73 D) derived from the BRCA1 protein, a tumor-suppressor molecule which plays a pivotal role in the development of breast cancers, from albumin (66.5 KD), the most represented protein in human plasma. The filtering process consisted of driving the complex mixture through a porous membrane having a cut-off of 12-14 kD by hydrodynamic flow. The filtered samples coming out of the microfluidic device were subsequently deposited on a superhydrophobic surface formed by micro pillars on top of which nanograins were fabricated. The nanograins coupled to a Raman spectroscopy instrument acted as a SERS sensor and allowed analysis of the filtered sample on top of the surface once it evaporated. By using the presented platform, we demonstrate being able to sort small peptides from bigger proteins and to detect them by using a label-free technique at a resolution down to 0.1 ng μL-1. The combination of microfluidics and nanotechnology to develop the presented microfluidic platform may give rise to a new generation of biosensors capable of detecting low concentration samples from complex mixtures without the need for any sample pretreatment or labelling. The developed devices could have future applications in the field of early diagnosis of severe illnesses, e.g. early cancer detection. This journal is
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563255
UR - http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C4RA10486B
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908574633&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/c4ra10486b
DO - 10.1039/c4ra10486b
M3 - Article
SN - 2046-2069
VL - 4
SP - 55590
EP - 55598
JO - RSC Adv.
JF - RSC Adv.
IS - 98
ER -