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Depletion of Highly Abundant Protein Species from Biosamples by the Use of a Branched Silicon Nanopillar On-Chip Platform.

ABSTRACT: Highly abundant serum proteins tend to mask the low- and ultralow-abundance proteins, making low-abundance species detection extremely challenging. While traditional highly abundant protein depletion techniques are effective, they suffer from nonspecific binding problems and laborious sample manipulation procedures, and the kinetics of release of current separation systems is inadequately long, causing dilution of the eluted low-abundance protein samples. Here, we introduce an on-chip light-controlled reusable platform for the direct and fast depletion of highly abundant proteins from serum biosamples. Our nanoarrays display fast and highly selective depletion capabilities, up to 99% depletion of highly abundant protein species, with no undesired depletion effects on the concentration of low-abundance protein biomarkers. Displaying an ultrahigh surface area, ∼3400 m2 g-1, alongside a light-triggerable ultrafast release, this platform allows for a high depletion performance, together with high-yield reusability capabilities. Furthermore, this nanostructured light-controlled separation device could easily be integrated with downstream analytical technologies in a single lab-on-a-chip platform.

SUBMITTER: Borberg E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592501 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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