Biomolecules
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2024
·Vol. 14
·期 12
·1568
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IF 4.8
Rui Wang,Junping Xue,Guo Wei,Yimeng Zhang,Chuanliang Wang,Jinhua Li,Xuhui Geng,Abbas Ostovan,Lingxin Chen,Zhihua Song
The development of a novel strategy for the measurement of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies is of vital significance forCOVID-19diagnosis and effect of vaccination evaluation. In this investigation, an SiO2@Au@CDs nanoparticle (NP)-based lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) strip was fabricated and coupled with a miniaturized fluorimeter. The morphology features and particle sizes of the SiO2@Au@CDs NPs were characterized carefully, and the results indicated that the materials possess monodisperse, uniform, and spherical structures. Finally, this system was employed for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody test. In this work, the strategy for the SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody test possesses several merits, such as speed (less than 15 min), high sensitivity (1.2 × 10−7mg/mL), broad linearity range (7.4 × 10−7~7.4 × 10−4mg/mL), accurate results, high selectivity, good stability, and low cost. Additionally, future trends in LFAs using quantum dot-based diagnostics are envisioned.
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医学诊断
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纳米技术
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病毒学
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VACCINE
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2022
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IF 4.169
Qianyu Bai,Zhiwen Wang,Yina AN,Jijing Tian,Zhilin Li,Yifei Yang,Yanjun Dong,Mingyong Chen,Tianlong Liu
Searching appropriate adjuvants for vaccine is a potent method to intense the immune efficacy. In the present study, we developed a novel Hepatitis E virus (HEV) vaccine by utilizing chitosan modified nano-graphene oxide (GO-CS) as an adjuvant to support HEV antigen P239 protein (GO/CS/P239). The characterization of GO/CS/P239 was observed by atomic force microscope. The safety of GO/CS/P239 was measured by CCK-8 method, hemolysis test and acute challenge test. The anti-HEV titers and cytokines production were analyzed by double antibody sandwich ELISA . As the results showed, by contrast with a vaccine that contained only the P239 protein, GO/CS/P239 vaccine can promote immune cells to produce more IgG antibodies and cytokines, which were able to stimulate the organism to produce stronger both cellular and humoral immunity. Collectively, GO/CS/P239 particles have been demonstrated to be safe both in vitro and in vivo, and can facilitate sufficient immune response to protect organisms from virus infection , which suggested that our exploration offers a promising alternative vaccine that can control HEV infection.
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免疫学
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病毒学
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纳米技术
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药学
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2020
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IF 7.1
Ling Chen,Yuan-Kui Leng,Bin Liu,Juan Liu,Sheng-Peng Wan,Tao Wu,Jinhui Yuan,Liyang Shao,Guoqiang Gu,Yong Qing Fu,Hengyi Xu,Yonghua Xiong,Xing-Dao He,Qiang Wu
An ultra-high sensitivity label-free optical fiber biosensor for inactivated Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) detection is proposed and investigated in this study, with additional advantages of robust and stability compared to traditional tapered fiber structure. The proposed fiber biosensor is based on a tapered singlemode- no core-singlemode fiber coupler (SNSFC) structure, where the no core fiber was tapered to small diameter (taper-waist diameter of about 10 μm) and functionalized with the pig immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody for detection of S. aureus . The measured maximum wavelength shift of the sensor for an S. aureus concentration of 7 × 10 1 CFU/mL (colony forming unit per milliliter) is 2.04 nm, which is equivalent to a limit of detection (LOD) of 3.1 CFU/mL (a highest LOD reported so far for optical fiber biosensors), considering the maximum wavelength variation of the sensor in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) is ±0.03 nm over 40 min, where 3 times of maximum wavelength variation (3 × 0.03 = 0.09 nm) is defined as measurement limit. The response time of the developed fiber sensor is less than 30 min. The ultra-sensitive biosensor has potential to be widely applied to various areas such as disease, medical diagnostics and food safety inspection.
研究领域:
生物传感
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光纤技术
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微生物学
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食品安全
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医学诊断
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Advanced Healthcare Materials
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2019
·Vol. 9
·期 1
·1901203
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IF 6.27
Haiying Ji,Guangxi Wu,Yongyong Li,Kun Wang,Xiaomei Xue,Shasha You,Shengming Wu,Tianbin Ren,Bin He,Xueyin Shi
Elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) increases the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Peptide-based PCSK9 vaccines have shown a promising prospect of reducing LDL-C. In peptide vaccine (pVax) design, the peptide antigens need to conjugate with carrier protein (CP). However, CP incorporation can induce undesirable anti-CP antibodies, which sterically mask peptide epitopes from being recognized by specific B cells and impair subsequent therapeutically antibody production. This epitopic suppression has posed a barrier in clinical translation of conjugate vaccines all along. A model CP (keyhole limpet hemocyanin, KLH) is herein camouflaged with serum albumin (SA) into hybrid nanocarriers (SA@N), with PCSK9 peptide being anchored onto the surface to form nanovaccine (SA@NVax). Such camouflage of KLH via high “self” SA coverage is able to inhibit KLH from extracellular immune recognition and prevent detectable anti-KLH antibody production. Furthermore, the nanovaccine around 70 nm stabilized by intermolecular disulfide network is ideal for internalization and biodegradation by antigen presenting cells as well as better retention in draining lymph nodes and spleen. As expected, the SA@NVax efficiently primes higher anti-PCSK9 IgG antibody titer than PCSK9 pVax.
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生物技术
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免疫学
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药学
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心血管疾病
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FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL IMMUNOLOGY
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2018
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IF 2.568
Wenliang Ge,Steven Suryoprabowo,Xiaoling Wu,Qiankun Zheng,Hua Kuang
The misuse of β-agonists constitutes a potential risk to public health and β-agonists has been forbidden in many countries. In this study, we describe an immunochromatographic test strip method for the rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive detection of mabuterol (MAB) and mapenterol (MAP) by cross-reactivity in pig urine. For the immunochromatographic test, the coating antigen which was obtained by conjugating the salbutamol to bovine serum albumin and a goat anti-mouse IgG antibody were drawn onto a nitrocellulose membrane as the control line and test line. The test was developed with a sensitive monoclonal antibody specific for MAB, which was generated by immunizing BALB/c mice with a well-characterized MAB- keyhole limpet haemocyanin conjugate, produced in our laboratory. Under optimized conditions, the cut-off limits of the semi-quantitative test strip for MBA and MPA were as low as 10 ng/mL in both 0.01 M PBS (pH 7.4) and pig urine. All the results were obtained within 5 min. Our data indicate that the immunochromatographic assay allows provide sensitive, rapid, and specific on-site screening for MAB and MAP.
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兽医学
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分析化学
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公共卫生
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2024
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IF 6.1
Zhiheng Zhang,Hongchen Chen,Weize Diao,Chuangxin Zhou,Guozhen Liu
Eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) nanoparticles can be modified with aniline derivatives to introduce versatile functional groups toward bioapplications beyond materials science. The p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) modified EGaIn (EGaIn-PABA) demonstrated high wettability with the presence of carboxyl groups, but the priority of carboxyl and amino groups binding on EGaIn surface remains unclear. To study the binding nature of PABA to EGaIn, the anti-mouse IgG antibody labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) (IgG-FITC) was covalently modified to EGaIn-PABA to verify the presence of terminal carboxyl groups on EGaIn surface. The binding of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to EGaIn-PABA nanoparticles suggested the presence of terminal amino groups on EGaIn surface. Then, taking advantage of the reductive nature of amino groups, the Almar blue fluorescence experiment was designed to determine the co-existence of carboxyl and amino groups on the EGaIn-PABA surface with the approximate ratio of 3:7, suggesting carboxyl groups had a higher probability of binding with the EGaIn surface than that of amino groups. Then, an aptasensor was fabricated on the EGaIn-PABA surface with AuNPs for electrochemical detection of interleukin-6 with a sensitivity of 1 pg/mL.
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材料科学
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生物传感器
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纳米技术
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分析化学
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生物医学工程
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2016
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IF 7.145
Zhen Lei,Jiaxue Gao,Xia Liu,Dianjun Liu,Zhenxin Wang
We developed a three-dimensional (3D) polymer-brush substrate for protein and peptide microarray fabrication, and this substrate was facilely prepared by copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) monomers via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) on a glass slide. The performance of obtained poly(glycidyl methacrylate-co-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (P(GMA-HEMA)) brush substrate was assessed by binding of human IgG with rabbit antihuman IgG antibodies on a protein microarray and by the determination of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activities on a peptide microarray. The P(GMA-HEMA) brush substrate exhibited higher immobilization capacities for proteins and peptides than those of a two-dimensional (2D) planar epoxy slide. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the P(GMA-HEMA) brush-based microarray on rabbit antihuman IgG antibody detection was much higher than that of its 2D counterpart. The enzyme activities of MMPs were determined specifically with a low detection limit of 6.0 pg mL–1 for MMP-2 and 5.7 pg mL–1 for MMP-9. By taking advantage of the biocompatibility of PHEMA, the P(GMA-HEMA) brush-based peptide microarray was also employed to evaluate the secretion of MMP-2 and MMP-9 by cells cultured off the chip or directly on the chip, and satisfactory results were obtained.
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生物材料
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生物化学
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生物技术
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分析化学
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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IF 7.7
Zulikeyan Manafu,Ronglijiao Du,Tuerhong Kudereti,Gulimire Abulikemu,Shakeel Ahmed Lakho,Lijun Xue,Ayibike Bierdelieke,Faiz Muhammad Khand,Ambreen Leghari,Yuan Xie,Saifuding Abula,Bateer Bake,Qingyong Guo,Adelijiang Wusiman
This study investigated the structure of acid Alhagi camelorum Fischa polysaccharide (aAP) and its impact on intestinal activity in mice. The results showed that aAP comprised of the fucose, arabinose, rhamnose, galactose, glucose, xylose, mannose, galacturonic acid, glucuronic acid with the molar ratio of 0.81:14.97:10.84:11.14:3.26:0.80:0.80:54.92:2.47 with the molecular weight (Mw) of 22.734 kDa. Additionally, the composition of aAP was assessed via FT-IR, methylation, and NMR analyses, indicating that the backbone of the aAP was consisted of →4)-α-D-Gal p A-6-OMe-(1 → 4)-α-Gal p A-(1 → and →4)-α-D-Gal p A-6-OMe-(1 → 2)-α-L-Rha p -(1→, as well as →4)-β-D-Gal p - and →5)-α-L-Ara f - for the branched chain. Furthermore, ICR mice underwent intragastric administration of different concentrations of aAP for 7 consecutive days. The results showed that aAP enhanced the murine spleen and thymus indices, promoted the secretion of serum lgG antibody, intestinal lgA antibody and intestinal cytokines, improved the morphology of intestinal villi and crypts, enhanced quantity of intestinal IELs and IgA+ cells, and activated T lymphocytes and DC cells in MLNs. In summary, these findings suggest that the utilization of aAP could enhance the immune response of the murine intestinal mucosa.
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药理学
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免疫学
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生物化学
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分子生物学
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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IF 9.5
Baochao Fan,Jun Gu,Bin Deng,Weilu Guo,Shuaifeng Zhang,Li Li,Bin Li
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide. To protect and control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, varieties of subunit vaccines based on spike (S) proteins have been approved for human applications. Here, we report a new subunit vaccine design strategy that functions as both an antigen carrier and an adjuvant in immunization to elicit high-level immune responses. The complex of 2-hydroxypropyl-trimethylammonium chloride chitosan and amylose entangles Au nanoparticles (HTCC/amylose/AuNPs) forming 40 nm nanocarriers with a positive charge. The obtained positively charged nanoparticles reveal many merits, including the larger S protein loading capacity in PBS buffer, higher cellular uptake ability, and lower cell cytotoxicity, supporting their potential as safe vaccine nanocarriers. Two functionalized nanoparticle subunit vaccines are prepared via loading full-length S proteins derived from SARS-CoV-2 variants. In mice, both prepared vaccines elicit high specific IgG antibodies, neutralize antibodies, and immunoglobulin IgG1 and IgG2a. The prepared vaccines also elicit robust T- and B-cell immune responses and increase CD19+ B cells, CD11C+ dendritic cells, and CD11B+ macrophages at the alveoli and bronchi of the immunized mice. Furthermore, the results of skin safety tests and histological observation of organs indicated in vivo safety of HTCC/amylose/AuNP-based vaccines. Summarily, our prepared HTCC/amylose/AuNP have significant potential as general vaccine carriers for the delivery of different antigens with potent immune stimulation.
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纳米技术
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免疫学
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病毒学
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药学
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生物医学工程
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