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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a promising technique for the readout of immunochemical assays utilizing indirect detection of labels (Tag-LIBS), typically based on nanoparticles. We have previously demonstrated that Tag-LIBS immunoassay employing yttrium-based photon-upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) can reach sensitivity similar to commonly used enzyme and fluorescence immunoassays. In this study, we report on further increasing the sensitivity of UCNP-based Tag-LIBS immunoassay by employing magnetic microbeads (MBs) as the solid phase in the determination of cancer biomarker prostate-specific antigen. Due to the possibility of analyte preconcentration, MBs enabled achieving a limit of detection (LOD) of 4.0 pg·mL-1, representing two orders of magnitude improvement compared with equivalent microtiter plate-based assay (LOD of 460 pg·mL-1). In addition, utilizing MBs opens up the possibility of an internal standardization of the LIBS readout by employing iron spectral lines, which improves the assay robustness by compensating for LIBS signal fluctuations and bead-bound immunocomplexes lost throughout the washing steps. Finally, the practical applicability of the technique was confirmed by the successful analysis of clinical samples, showing a strong correlation with the standard electrochemiluminescence immunoassay. Overall, MB-based Tag-LIBS was confirmed as a promising immunoassay approach, combining fast readout, multiplexing possibilities, and high sensitivity approaching upconversion luminescence scanning while avoiding the requirement of luminescence properties of labels.
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- imunoanalýza metody MeSH
- lasery * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- limita detekce * MeSH
- mikrosféry MeSH
- prostatický specifický antigen * analýza imunologie krev MeSH
- spektrální analýza metody MeSH
- ytrium chemie účinky záření MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Carbonyl-reducing enzymes are important in both metabolism of endogenous substances and biotransformation of xenobiotics. Because sufficient amounts of native enzymes must be obtained to study their roles in metabolism, an efficient purification strategy is very important. Oracin (6-[2-(2-hydroxyethyl)aminoethyl]-5,11-dioxo-5,6-dihydro-11H-indeno[1,2-c] isoquinoline) is a prospective anticancer drug and one of the xenobiotic substrates for carbonyl-reducing enzymes. A new purification strategy based on molecular recognition of carbonyl-reducing enzymes with oracin as a ligand is reported here. The type of covalent bond, ligand molecules orientation, and their distance from the backbone of the solid matrix for good stearic accessibility were taken into account during the designing of the carrier. The carriers based on magnetically active microparticles were tested by recombinant enzymes AKR1C3 and CBR1. The SiMAG-COOH magnetic microparticles with N-alkylated oracin and BAPA as spacer arm provide required parameters: proper selectivity and specificity enabling to isolate the target enzyme in sufficient quantity, purity, and activity.
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- alkoholoxidoreduktasy izolace a purifikace MeSH
- biotest MeSH
- chromatografie afinitní MeSH
- elektroforéza v polyakrylamidovém gelu MeSH
- enzymatické testy metody MeSH
- enzymy izolace a purifikace MeSH
- ethanolaminy chemie MeSH
- isochinoliny chemie MeSH
- ligandy MeSH
- magnetismus * MeSH
- mikrosféry MeSH
- molekulární struktura MeSH
- protinádorové látky chemie MeSH
- Schiffovy báze chemie MeSH
- vysokoúčinná kapalinová chromatografie MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Personalized medicine is partly based on biomarker-guided diagnostics, therapy and prognosis, which is becoming an unavoidable concept in modern cardiology. However, the clinical significance of single biomarker studies is rather limited. A promising novel approach involves combining multiple markers into a multiplex panel, which could refine the management of a particular patient with cardiovascular pathology. Two principally different assay formats have been developed to facilitate simultaneous quantification of multiple antigens: planar array assays and microbead assays. These approaches may help to better evaluate the complexity and dynamic nature of pathologic processes and offer substantial cost and sample savings compared with traditional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) measurements. However, a multiplex multimarker approach cannot become a generally disseminated method until analytical problems are solved and further studies confirming improved clinical outcomes are accomplished. These drawbacks underlie the fact that a limited number of systematic studies are available regarding the use of a multiplex biomarker approach in cardiovascular medicine to date. Our perspective underscores the significant potential of the use of the multiplex approach in a wider conceptual framework under the close cooperation of clinical and experimental cardiologists, pathophysiologists and biochemists so that the personalized approach based on standardized multimarker testing may improve the management of various cardiovascular pathologies and become a ubiquitous partner of population-derived evidence-based medicine.
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- biologické markery analýza MeSH
- ELISA MeSH
- kardiovaskulární nemoci diagnóza farmakoterapie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- přehledy MeSH
Screen-printed platinum electrodes as transducer and magnetic beads as solid phase were combined to develop a particle-based electrochemical immunosensor for monitoring the serious food allergen ovalbumin. The standard arrangement of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay became the basis for designing the immunosensor. A sandwich-type immunocomplex was formed between magnetic particles functionalized with specific anti-ovalbumin immunoglobulin G and captured ovalbumin molecules, and secondary anti-ovalbumin antibodies conjugated with the enzyme horseradish peroxidase were subsequently added as label tag. The electrochemical signal proportional to the enzymatic reaction of horseradish peroxidase during the reduction of hydrogen peroxide with thionine as electron mediator was measured by linear sweep voltammetry. The newly established method of ovalbumin detection exhibits high sensitivity suitable for quantification in the range of 11 to 222nM and a detection limit of 5nM. Magnetic beads-based assay format using external magnets for rapid and simple separation has been proven to be an excellent basis for electrochemical detection and quantification of food allergens in highly complex sample matrices.
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- biosenzitivní techniky přístrojové vybavení metody MeSH
- elektrická vodivost MeSH
- elektrochemie MeSH
- elektrody MeSH
- imobilizační protilátky chemie imunologie MeSH
- imunoanalýza přístrojové vybavení metody MeSH
- limita detekce MeSH
- magnety chemie MeSH
- mikrosféry * MeSH
- ovalbumin škodlivé účinky analýza MeSH
- platina chemie MeSH
- potravinová alergie metabolismus MeSH
- transport elektronů MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
The search for more effective drugs for the management of common hair growth disorders remains a top priority, both for clinical dermatology and industry. In this pilot study, we report a pragmatic organotypic assay for basic and applied hair research. The patented technique produces microdroplets, which generate human folliculoid microspheres (HFMs), consisting of human dermal papilla fibroblasts and outer root sheath keratinocytes within an extracellular matrix that simulates elements of the hair follicle mesenchyme. Studying a number of different markers (for example, proliferation, apoptosis, cytokeratin-6, versican), we show that these HFMs, cultured under well-defined conditions, retain several essential epithelial-mesenchymal interactions characteristic for human scalp hair follicle. Selected, recognized hair growth-modulatory agents modulate these parameters in a manner that suggests that HFMs allow the standardized preclinical assessment of test agents on relevant human hair growth markers under substantially simplified in vitro conditions that approximate the in vivo situation. Furthermore, we show by immunohistochemistry, reverse transcriptase-PCR, and DNA microarray techniques that HFMs also offer a useful discovery tool for the identification of target genes and their products for candidate hair drugs. HFM thus represent an instructive modern experimental and screening tool for basic and applied hair research in the human system.
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- apoptóza MeSH
- cyklosporin farmakologie MeSH
- cytokiny genetika MeSH
- epitelové buňky cytologie MeSH
- financování organizované MeSH
- hepatocytární růstový faktor farmakologie MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mezibuněčná komunikace MeSH
- mezoderm cytologie MeSH
- mikrosféry MeSH
- proliferace buněk MeSH
- stanovení celkové genové exprese MeSH
- vlasový folikul cytologie růst a vývoj MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases with long incubation time. This group includes Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, kuru, scrapie, chronic wasting disease, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Sensitive and specific detection of abnormal prion protein as "a source agent" of the above-mentioned diseases in blood could provide a diagnostic test or a screening assay for animal and human prion protein diseases diagnostics. Therefore, diagnostic tests for prion protein diseases represent unique challenge requiring development of novel assays exploiting properties of prion protein complex. Presently, diagnostic methods such as protein misfolding cyclic amplification, conformation-dependent immunoassay, dissociation-enhanced lanthanide fluorescent immunoassay, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, and/or flow microbead immunoassay are used for abnormal prion protein (PrP(Sc) ) detection. On the other hand, using of CE for PrP(Sc) detection in body fluids is an attractive alternative; it has been already applied for the blood samples of infected sheep, elk, chimpanzee, as well as humans. In this review, assays for prion protein detection are summarized with special attention to capillary electromigration based techniques, such as CE, CIEF, and/or CGE. The potential of the miniaturized and integrated lab-on-chip devices is highlighted, emphasizing recent advances of this field in the proteomic analysis.
Conventional immunochemical methods used in clinical analysis are often not sensitive enough for early-stage diagnosis, resulting in the need for novel assay formats. Here, we provide a detailed comparison of the effect of different labels and solid supports on the performance of heterogeneous immunoassays. When comparing three types of streptavidin-modified labels─horseradish peroxidase, carboxyfluorescein, and photon-upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)─UCNPs led to the most sensitive and robust detection of the cancer biomarker prostate-specific antigen. Additionally, we compared the immunoassay formats based on conventional microtiter plates and magnetic microbeads (MBs). In both cases, the highest signal-to-background ratios and the lowest limits of detection (LODs) were obtained by using the UCNP labels. The MB-based upconversion-linked immunosorbent assay carried out with a preconcentration step provided the lowest LOD of 0.46 pg/mL in serum. The results demonstrate that the use of UCNPs and MBs can significantly improve the sensitivity and working range of heterogeneous immunoassays for biomarker detection.
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- imunoanalýza metody MeSH
- imunosorbenty * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- limita detekce MeSH
- magnetismus MeSH
- nanočástice * MeSH
- streptavidin MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
The tachinid fly Exorista larvarum (L.) (Diptera: Tachinidae) is a polyphagous larval endoparasitoid that deposits its eggs on the host exoskeleton of lepidopteran and tenthredinid larvae. The attachment of larval E. larvarum and the formation of the respiratory funnel were studied during infestation in the last larval instar of the wax moth, Galleria mellonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). The tachinid larvae burrow through the host integument after hatching, using their robust cephalopharyngeal skeleton, leaving a dark spot at the point of their penetration as a result of host cuticle melanization. Endoparasitoid penetration induces the host cellular defence, resulting in the formation of a haemocyte capsule consisting of multi-cellular sheaths. This enveloping capsule later undergoes melanization, which is mostly obvious towards the posterior part of the endoparasitoid. The endoparasitoid uses the host encapsulation response to build a respiratory funnel from the modified host integument, leading to the host surface. The encapsulated larva remains attached to the respiratory funnel via an anal hook and cuticular spines until fully developed. Additional immunohistochemical analyses were used to study host-parasitoid interactions. Indirect immunofluorescence showed no labelling of potential tachinid antigens and confirmed no effect on the surrounding host tissues. A simulated parasitization with coated polybead microspheres revealed the mortal impact of tachinid antigens to the host. Hosts injected with antigen-coated polybeads died as a consequence of an acute and extensive immunological response to the tachinid antigens and not due to the trauma caused by foreign objects inside their body.
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- Diptera fyziologie MeSH
- fluorescenční protilátková technika nepřímá MeSH
- interakce hostitele a parazita * MeSH
- larva fyziologie MeSH
- mikrosféry MeSH
- můry parazitologie MeSH
- myši MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Molecular diagnostics may provide tailored and cost efficient treatment for infectious disease and cancer. Rolling circle amplification (RCA) of padlock probes guarantees high specificity to identify nucleic acid targets down to single nucleotide resolution in a multiplex fashion. This makes the assay suitable for molecular analysis of various diseases, and interesting to integrate into automated devices for point-of-care analysis. A critical prerequisite for many molecular assays is (i) target-specific isolation from complex clinical samples and (ii) removal of reagents, inhibitors and contaminants between reaction steps. Efficient solid supports are therefore essential to enable multi-step, multi-analyte protocols. Superparamagnetic micro- and nanoparticles, with large surface area and rapid liquid-phase kinetics, are attractive for multi-step protocols. Recently, streptavidin-modified magnetic monodispersed poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (STV-mag.PHEMA) microspheres were developed by multiple swelling polymerization. They are easily separated by a magnet and exhibit low non-specific protein sorption. In this study, the performance and the binding efficiency of STV-mag.PHEMA was addressed by circle-to-circle amplification (C2CA). A lower number of RCA products were detected as compared to the gold standard Dynabeads. Nevertheless, this study was the first to successfully adapt STV-mag.PHEMA microspheres as solid support in a DNA-based protocol, which is an important finding. The STV-mag.PHEMA microspheres were larger with about 16 times less surface area as compared to the Dynabeads, which might partly explain the lower rolling circle product (RCP) count obtained. Further research is currently ongoing comparing particles of similar sizes and optimizing reaction conditions to establish their full utility in the field. Ultimately, low cost and versatile particles are a great resource to facilitate future clinical molecular diagnostics.
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- DNA chemie metabolismus MeSH
- imobilizované proteiny chemie metabolismus MeSH
- magnetismus MeSH
- mikrosféry * MeSH
- mikroskopie elektronová rastrovací MeSH
- polyhydroxyethylmethakrylát chemie MeSH
- spektroskopie infračervená s Fourierovou transformací MeSH
- streptavidin chemie metabolismus MeSH
- techniky amplifikace nukleových kyselin MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Guanosine derivatives are important for diagnosis of oxidative DNA damage including 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) as one of the most abundant products of DNA oxidation. This compound is commonly determined in urine, which makes 8-OHdG a good non-invasive marker of oxidation stress. In this study, we optimized and tested the isolation of 8-OHdG from biological matrix by using paramagnetic particles with an antibody-modified surface. 8-OHdG was determined using 1-naphthol generated by alkaline phosphatase conjugated with the secondary antibody. 1-Naphthol was determined by stopped flow injection analysis (SFIA) with electrochemical detector using a glassy carbon working electrode and by stationary electrochemical detection using linear sweep voltammetry. A special modular electrochemical SFIA system which needs only 10 μL of sample including working buffer for one analysis was completely designed and successfully verified. The recoveries in different matrices and analyte concentration were estimated. Detection limit (3 S/N) was estimated as 5 pg/mL of 8-OHdG. This method promises to be very easily modified to microfluidic systems as "lab on valve". The optimized method had sufficient selectivity and thus could be used for determination of 8-OHDG in human urine and therefore for estimation of oxidative DNA damage as a result of oxidation stress in prostate cancer patients.
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- alkalická fosfatasa MeSH
- deoxyguanosin analogy a deriváty moč MeSH
- elektrochemické techniky metody MeSH
- ELISA metody MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- magnety MeSH
- mikrofluidní analytické techniky přístrojové vybavení metody MeSH
- mikrosféry MeSH
- nádory prostaty moč MeSH
- naftoly MeSH
- oxidační stres MeSH
- protilátky MeSH
- průtoková injekční analýza MeSH
- robotika přístrojové vybavení metody MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
