Simultaneous analyzing multiple protein and nucleic acid biomarkers in one clinical
sample can provide clinically valuable results for the diagnosis, monitoring, and
management of diseases. However, current diagnostic platforms primarily rely on
independent detection of proteins/nucleic acids, which is time-consuming and laborintensive. Here, we develop a Highly-Parallelized and Low-Sample-Size (HPLSS)
chip for simultaneously detecting protein and nucleic acid biomarker in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). We assess the limit of detections for five different markers (0.14
ng mL-1
for alpha fetoprotein (AFP), 0.09 ng mL-1
for protein induced by vitamin K
absence or antagonist-II (PIVKA II), 7.94 co... More
Simultaneous analyzing multiple protein and nucleic acid biomarkers in one clinical
sample can provide clinically valuable results for the diagnosis, monitoring, and
management of diseases. However, current diagnostic platforms primarily rely on
independent detection of proteins/nucleic acids, which is time-consuming and laborintensive. Here, we develop a Highly-Parallelized and Low-Sample-Size (HPLSS)
chip for simultaneously detecting protein and nucleic acid biomarker in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). We assess the limit of detections for five different markers (0.14
ng mL-1
for alpha fetoprotein (AFP), 0.09 ng mL-1
for protein induced by vitamin K
absence or antagonist-II (PIVKA II), 7.94 copies μL-1
for microRNA-21, 4.88 copies
μL-1
for microRNA-122, and 5.83 copies μL-1
for microRNA-223). We also evaluate
the performance using clinical samples and compared it with commercial kits. Our
method exhibited a small sample volume required (~20 μL), multiplexed ability and
adjustable throughput (five targets in each of six samples in one assay). Importantly,
the combined evaluation of multiple biomarkers of different dimensions can improve
the specificity and sensitivity of diagnosis. This study has achieved the
multidimensional detection of tumor biomarkers, which has great potential for early
and accurate cancer diagnosis.
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