Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi11060604
Keywords
multi-color imaging; breast cancer cells; surface plasmon; fluorescence microscopy; hole-array
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant [JP16H02092]
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Breast cancer cells of MDA-MB-231 express various types of membrane proteins in the cell membrane. In this study, two types of membrane proteins in MDA-MB-231 cells were observed using a plasmonic chip with an epifluorescence microscope. The targeted membrane proteins were epithelial cell adhesion molecules (EpCAMs) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and Alexa(R)488-EGFR antibody and allophycocyanin (APC)-labeled EpCAM antibody were applied to the fluorescent detection. The plasmonic chip used in this study is composed of a two-dimensional hole-array structure, which is expected to enhance the fluorescence at different resonance wavelengths due to two kinds of grating pitches in a square side and a diagonal direction. As a result of multi-color imaging, the enhancement factor of Alexa(R)488-EGFR and APC-EpCAM was 13 +/- 2 and 12 +/- 2 times greater on the plasmonic chip, respectively. The excited wavelength or emission wavelength of each fluorescent agent is due to consistency with plasmon resonance wavelength in the hole-arrayed chip. The multi-color fluorescence images of breast cancer cells were improved by the hole-arrayed plasmonic chip.
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