Sers-based quantitative detection of ovarian cancer prognostic factor haptoglobin
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2015-03-01Author
Perumal, Jayakumar
Balasundaram, Ghayathri
Olivo, Malini
Mahyuddin, Aniza
Choolani, Mahesh
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Perumal, Jayakumar; Balasundaram, Ghayathri; Olivo, Malini; Mahyuddin, Aniza; Choolani, Mahesh (2015). Sers-based quantitative detection of ovarian cancer prognostic factor haptoglobin. International Journal of Nanomedicine 10 , 1831-1840
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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is increasingly being used for biosensing because of its high sensitivity and low detection limit, which are made possible by the unique Raman 'fingerprint' spectra from the biomolecules. Here we propose a novel SERS method for the fast, sensitive, and reliable quantitative analysis of haptoglobin (Hp), an acute phase plasma glycoprotein that is widely gaining application as a prognostic ovarian cancer biomarker. We exploited the peroxidase activity of the hemoglobin-haptoglobin (Hb-Hp) complex formed by the selective and specific binding of Hp to free Hb to catalyze the reaction of 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) substrate and hydrogen peroxide to result in the final product of strongly SERS-active TMB2+. We observed a linear increase in the SERS signal of TMB2+ with increasing concentrations of Hb-Hp complex from 50 nM to 34 mu M. Based on this concentration-dependent SERS spectrum, we quantified Hp in clinical samples. We observed that our inference about the prognosis of the disease coincided with the histology data and that our method was much more sensitive than the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method.