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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 860, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160450
Keywords
Microplastics; Flow cytometry; Analytical methods; Directed evolution; Material binding peptides
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Researchers developed a multiplexed analytical and flow cytometry-based high-throughput method to quantify microplastic particles in aqueous suspensions, providing a sensitive and high-throughput detection capability.
Sensitive high-throughput analytic methodologies are needed to quantify microplastic particles (MPs) and thereby en-able routine monitoring of MPs to ultimately secure animal, human, and environmental health. Here we report a multiplexed analytical and flow cytometry-based high-throughput methodology to quantify MPs in aqueous suspen-sions. The developed analytic MPs-quantification platform provides a sensitive as well as high-throughput detection of MPs that relies on the material binding peptide Liquid Chromatography Peak I (LCI) conjugated to Alexa-fluorophores (LCIF16C-AF488, LCIF16C-AF594, and LCIF16C-AF647). These fluorescent material-binding peptides (also termed plastibodies) were used to fluorescently label polystyrene MPs, whereas Alexa-fluorophores alone exhibited a negligible background fluorescence. Mixtures of polystyrene MPs that varied in size (500 nm to 5 mu m) and varied in labeled populations were analyzed and sorted into distinct populations reaching sorting efficiencies >90 % for 1 x 106 sorted events. Finally, a multiplexed quantification and sorting with up to three plastibodies was successfully achieved to validate that the combination of plastibodies and flow cytometry is a powerful and generally applicable methodology for multiplexed analysis, quantification, and sorting of microplastic particles.
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