Integrated Microfluidic Chip for Neutrophil Extracellular Vesicle Analysis and Gastric Cancer Diagnosis
: Yu, Dan; Gu, Jianmei; Zhang, Jiahui; Wang, Maoye; Ji, Runbi; Feng, Chunlai; Santos, Helder A.; Zhang, Hongbo; Zhang, Xu
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
: WASHINGTON
: 2025
: ACS Nano
: ACS Nano
: ACS NANO
: 19
: 10
: 10078
: 10092
: 15
: 1936-0851
: 1936-086X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16894
: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16894
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/491566335
Neutrophil-derived extracellular vesicles (NEVs) are critically involved in disease progression and are considered potential biomarkers. However, the tedious processes of NEV separation and detection restrain their use. Herein, we presented an integrated microfluidic chip for NEV (IMCN) analysis, which achieved immune-separation of CD66b+ NEVs and multiplexed detection of their contained miRNAs (termed NEV signatures) by using 10 μL serum samples. The optimized microchannel and flow rate of the IMCN chip enabled efficient capture of NEVs (>90%). After recognition of the captured NEVs by a specific CD63 aptamer, on-chip rolling circle amplification (RCA) reaction was triggered by the released aptamers and miRNAs from heat-lysed NEVs. Then, the RCA products bound to molecular beacons (MBs), initiating allosteric hairpin structures and amplified "turn on" fluorescence signals (RCA-MB assay). Clinical sample analysis showed that NEV signatures had a high area under curve (AUC) in distinguishing between healthy control (HC) and gastric cancer (GC) (0.891), benign gastric diseases (BGD) and GC (0.857). Notably, the AUC reached 0.912 with a combination of five biomarkers (NEV signatures, CEA, and CA199) to differentiate GC from HC, and the diagnostic accuracy was further increased by using a machine learning (ML)-based ensemble classification system. Therefore, the developed IMCN chip is a valuable platform for NEV analysis and may have potential use in GC diagnosis.
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X.Z. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82372909 and 81972310), the Distinguished Young Scholar Project of Jiangsu Province (BK20200043), and the Zhenjiang Policy Guidance Program for International Science and Technology Cooperation (GJ2023015). H.A.S. acknowledges UMCG Research Funds and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowka-Curie grant agreement No. 101007804 for financial support. H.Z. acknowledges the Research Fellow (Grant no. 353146), Project (347897), Solution for Health Profile (336355), InFLAMES Flagship (337531) grants, and (295296) from Academy of Finland, Finland China Food and Health International Pilot Project funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.