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S&M1742 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2019.2032 Published: January 15, 2019 Fingerprint-based Protein Identification in Cell Culture Medium Using Environment-sensitive Turn-on Fluorescent Polymer [PDF] Hiroka Sugai, Shunsuke Tomita, Sayaka Ishihara, and Ryoji Kurita (Received June 25, 2018; Accepted August 24, 2018) Keywords: proteins, biosensors, multivariate analysis, polymers, cell culture medium
The identification of secreted proteins in cell culture supernatants is a useful method for the noninvasive evaluation of cultured cells. Herein, we show that a fingerprint-based sensor technique can be used to identify typical hepatocyte-derived secretory proteins spiked into a cell culture medium. A poly-L-lysine modified with environment-sensitive dansyl groups (PLL-Dnc), which allows a turn-on fluorescent response with cross-reactivity against different analytes, was employed for the sensing of a series of secretory proteins (albumin, α1-antitrypsin, fibrinogen, transferrin, and α-fetoprotein). An array of PLL-Dnc in different buffer solutions successfully produced fluorescence fingerprints as a result of distinct interactions with analyte proteins depending on solution conditions (pH and ionic strength), enabling the qualitative identification of five secretory proteins in culture media (40 μg/mL) with 100% accuracy using linear discriminant analysis. The array system was also capable of analyzing culture media that contain different concentrations of albumin and α-fetoprotein under realistic conditions. This work demonstrates the solution-condition-dependent discriminatory response of PLL-Dnc toward proteins spiked into a culture medium, rendering such a PLL-Dnc system a promising platform for the antibody-free and marker-based evaluation of cultured cells.
Corresponding author: Shunsuke TomitaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Hiroka Sugai, Shunsuke Tomita, Sayaka Ishihara, and Ryoji Kurita, Fingerprint-based Protein Identification in Cell Culture Medium Using Environment-sensitive Turn-on Fluorescent Polymer, Sens. Mater., Vol. 31, No. 1, 2019, p. 1-11. |