Journal
SMALL
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201904199
Keywords
antibody-free; boronate affinity; cell-imprinted hydrogels; circulating tumor cells; synergistic effects
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- National Natural Science Foundation [21575143, 21765506]
- Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, CAS
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The selective and highly efficient capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood and their subsequent release without damage are very important for the early diagnosis of tumors and for understanding the mechanism of metastasis. Herein, a universal strategy is proposed for the fabrication of an antibody-free hydrogel that has a synergistic effect by featuring microinterfaces obtained by cell imprinting and molecular recognition conferred by boronate affinity. With this artificial antibody, highly efficient capture of human hepatocarcinoma SMMC-7721 cells is achieved: as many as 90.3 +/- 1.4% (n = 3) cells are captured when 1 x 10(5) SMMC-7721 cells are incubated on a 4.5 cm(2) hydrogel, and 99% of these captured cells are subsequently released without any loss of proliferation ability. In the presence of 1000 times as many nontarget cells, namely, leukaemia Jurkat cells, the SMMC-7721 cells can be captured with an enrichment factor as high as 13.5 +/- 3.2 (n = 3), demonstrating the superior selectivity of the artificial antibody for the capture of the targeted CTCs. Most importantly, the SMMC-7721 cells can be successfully captured even when spiked into whole blood, indicating the great promise of this approach for the further molecular characterization of CTCs.
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