PMID- 37126879 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230512 LR - 20230512 IS - 1873-3778 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1699 DP - 2023 Jun 21 TI - Microtrap-assisted microfluidic magnetic separation and concentration for ultrasensitive immunoassays of biomarkers. PG - 464021 LID - S0021-9673(23)00247-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464021 [doi] AB - Precise and accurate quantitation of important biomarkers is significant, especially in early-stage diseases diagnosis. To realized effective biosample preparation and trace-level biomarker detection, a microtrap-assisted microfluidic magnetic immunoassays (muMI) method was developed in this work. A microtrap was fabricated inside the straight microchannel of muMI device to help magnetic separation and concentration of immunocomplexes. These immunocomplexes were enriched in microtrap of muMI device to accomplish selective and sensitive biomarker detection. Horseradish peroxidase-labeled magnetic beads were employed to evaluate assay feasibility and microtrap effect on assay sensitivity. The microtrap-assisted muMI was then applied for model biomarkers detection. The limits of detection of muMI were 0.025 pg/mL for monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and 0.021 pg/mL for matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), which corresponded up to 2014-fold sensitivity improvement compared to their standard microwell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results. In addition, the selectivity and reproducibility of microtrap-assisted muMI were confirmed. In clinical serum sample analysis, recoveries of 91.3%-106.7% with relative standard deviations less than 6.1% were obtained for MCP-1 and MMP-9, and method accuracy was verified by commercial ELISA kit. The developed muMI can accomplish ultratrace biomarker detection offering practical tool for laboratorial and clinical research. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Dong, Jianwei AU - Dong J AD - School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. FAU - Li, Gongke AU - Li G AD - School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. Electronic address: cesgkl@mail.sysu.edu.cn. FAU - Xia, Ling AU - Xia L AD - School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China. Electronic address: xialing@mail.sysu.edu.cn. FAU - Li, He AU - Li H AD - School of Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230425 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - EC 3.4.24.35 (Matrix Metalloproteinase 9) RN - 0 (Biomarkers) SB - IM MH - *Microfluidics MH - *Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Immunoassay/methods MH - Biomarkers MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/methods MH - Magnetic Phenomena OTO - NOTNLM OT - Biomarker OT - Magnetic separation and concentration OT - Microfluidic immunoassay OT - Microtrap OT - Ultrasensitive detection COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this work. EDAT- 2023/05/01 18:42 MHDA- 2023/05/12 07:06 CRDT- 2023/05/01 18:00 PHST- 2023/02/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/04/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/12 07:06 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/01 18:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/05/01 18:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9673(23)00247-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464021 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2023 Jun 21;1699:464021. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464021. Epub 2023 Apr 25.