期刊
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
卷 879, 期 -, 页码 77-84出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.03.015
关键词
Quantum Dots; Immunoassay; Labeling; Elemental mass spectrometry; Protein quantification
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [CTQ2010-16636]
- European FEDER program
- Plan de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion of the Principado de Asturias (FICYT) [IE13-031]
- Agilent Technologies Foundation
- MICINN
- Gobierno del Principado de Asturias for their Ph.D. funding through the FPU and Severo Ochoa [BP13-110]
- Fundacion Ma Cristina Masaveu Peterson
- Glaucoma Foundation (NY, USA)
A generic strategy based on the use of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots (QDs) as elemental labels for protein quantification, using immunoassays with elemental mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), detection is presented. In this strategy, streptavidin modified QDs (QDs-SA) are bioconjugated to a biotinylated secondary antibody (b-Ab(2)). After a multi-technique characterization of the synthesized generic platform (QDs-SA-b-Ab(2)) it was applied to the sequential quantification of five proteins (transferrin, complement C3, apolipoprotein A1, transthyretin and apolipoprotein A4) at different concentration levels in human serum samples. It is shown how this generic strategy does only require the appropriate unlabeled primary antibody for each protein to be detected. Therefore, it introduces a way out to the need for the cumbersome and specific bioconjugation of the QDs to the corresponding specific recognition antibody for every target analyte (protein). Results obtained were validated with those obtained using UV-vis spectrophotometry and commercial ELISA Kits. As expected, ICP-MS offered one order of magnitude lower DL (0.23 fmol absolute for transferrin) than the classical spectrophotometric detection (3.2 fmol absolute). ICP-MS precision and detection limits, however turned out to be compromised by procedural blanks. The full analytical performance of the ICP-MS-based immunoassay proposed was assessed for detection of transferrin (Tf), present at the low ng mL(-1) range in a complex model synthetic matrix, where the total protein concentration was 100 mg mL(-1). Finally, ICP-MS detection allowed the quantitative control of all the steps of the proposed immunoassay, by computing mass balances obtained, and the development of a faster indirect immunoassay format where the plate wells were directly coated with the whole protein mixture sample. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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