Simultaneous Homogeneous Fluorescence Detection of AFP and GPC3 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Clinical Samples Assisted by Enzyme-Free Catalytic Hairpin Assembly
Simultaneous Homogeneous Fluorescence Detection of AFP and GPC3 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Clinical Samples Assisted by Enzyme-Free Catalytic Hairpin Assembly
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无酶催化发夹组装辅助同时均相荧光检测肝细胞癌临床样品中的 AFP 和 GPC3
DOI:
10.1021/acsami.2c09135
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发表时间:
2022-06-14
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9.5
通讯作者:
Chen, Jie
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作者:
Chen, Piaopiao;Jiang, Pengjun;Chen, Jie
Simultaneous sensitive and cost-effective detection of multiple tumor markers has shown great potential for cancer diagnostics. Herein, we reported a simple enzyme-free parallel catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) amplification strategy with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX (NMM) and quantum dots (QDs) as signal reporters for the homogeneous fluorescent simultaneous detection of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and glypican-3 (GPC3). Upon selective binding, the released single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) from the two-aptamer double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) probes triggers CHA amplification, further releasing the G-quadruplex sequence and Ag+ from the C-Ag+-C structures at the same time. Then, NMM and CdTe QDs selectively recognize G-quadruplex and Ag+, respectively. Under optimized conditions, limits of detections (LODs) as low as 3 fg/mL for AFP and 0.25 fg/mL for GPC3 were achieved using fluorescence readout. Using color- and distance-based visual readouts, an LOD of 1 fg/mL for GPC3 was reached. This method was applied to quantitatively analyze AFP and GPC3 in 41 clinical serum samples of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. The quantitative test results for AFP and GPC3 were consistent with those obtained using the electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECL-IA) clinical kit and correlated with radiological and pathological findings. The results of clinical tests demonstrated the potential of GPC3 as a tumor biomarker, and we propose a cut-off value of 2 ng/mL GPC3 for HCC.