A plasmonic nanoparticle-embedded polydopamine substrate for fluorescence detection of extracellular vesicle biomarkers in serum and urine from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Ze Rui Zhou
  • , Xia Chen
  • , Jian Lv
  • , Da Wei Li
  • , Cheng De Yang
  • , Hong Lei Liu*
  • , Ruo Can Qian*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There is an unmet clinical need to develop noninvasive liquid biopsy tools for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) diagnosis and therapeutic effect evaluation. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are abundant in body fluids, have emerged as a valuable resource for liquid biopsy. Herein, we describe a simple and robust EV detection platform that is based on a plasmonic nanoparticle-embedded polydopamine substrate that is modified with EV-capture molecules and detection probes. We investigated three EV biomarkers, namely, programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1), microRNA-146a (miRNA-146a) and sialic acid (SA), in serum and urine from SLE patients and healthy controls. This platform prevents complex pretreatment while enabling highly efficient EV capture to the substrate surface, and the multiple functionalization of the detection interface with specific biomarker probes enables simultaneous detection of PD-1, miRNA-146a and SA that are carried by EVs via fluorescence (FL) imaging at the single-vesicle level. Via comparison of EV biomarker profiles, SLE patients can be distinguished from normal controls and classified into treated and untreated groups. Due to its ease of preparation, simplicity and stability, our approach shows good potential in the design of EV-based biosensors for clinical use.

Original languageEnglish
Article number123620
JournalTalanta
Volume247
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Extracellular vesicle
  • Liquid biopsy
  • Plasmonic nanoparticle
  • Polydopamine
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus

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