Flexible Point-of-Care Electrodes for Ultrasensitive Detection of Bladder Tumor-Relevant miRNA in Urine

Portable point-of-care testing (POCT) is currently drawing enormous attention owing to its great potential for disease diagnosis and personal health management. Electrochemical biosensors, with the intrinsic advantages of cost-effectiveness, fast response, ease of miniaturization, and integration, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Analytical chemistry (Washington) 2023-01, Vol.95 (3), p.1847-1855
Hauptverfasser: Chen, Duo, Chen, Na, Liu, Fangning, Wang, Yiming, Liang, Huageng, Yang, Yanbing, Yuan, Quan
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Zusammenfassung:Portable point-of-care testing (POCT) is currently drawing enormous attention owing to its great potential for disease diagnosis and personal health management. Electrochemical biosensors, with the intrinsic advantages of cost-effectiveness, fast response, ease of miniaturization, and integration, are considered as one of the most promising candidates for POCT application. However, the clinical application of electrochemical biosensors-based POCT is hindered by the decreased detection sensitivity due to the low abundance of disease-relevant biomolecules in extremely complex biological samples. Herein, we construct a flexible electrochemical biosensor based on single-stranded DNA functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (ssDNA-SWNTs) for high sensitivity and stability detection of miRNA-21 in human urine to achieve bladder cancer (BCa) diagnosis and classification. The ssDNA-SWNT electrodes with a 2D interconnected network structure exhibit a high electrical conductivity, thus enabling the ultrasensitive detection of miRNA-21 with a detection limit of 3.0 fM. Additionally, the intrinsic flexibility of ssDNA-SWNT electrodes endows the biosensors with the capability to achieve high stability detection of miRNA-21 even under large bending deformations. In a cohort of 40 BCa patients at stages I–III and 44 negative control samples, the constructed ssDNA-SWNT biosensors could detect BCa with a 92.5% sensitivity, an 88.6% specificity, and classify the cancer stages with an overall accuracy of 81.0%. Additionally, the flexible ssDNA-SWNT biosensors could also be utilized for treatment efficiency assessment and cancer recurrence monitoring. Owing to their excellent sensitivity and stability, the designed flexible ssDNA-SWNT biosensors in this work propose a strategy to realize point-of-care detection of complex clinical samples to achieve personalized healthcare.
ISSN:0003-2700
1520-6882
DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03156