Label-free detection of breast cancer cells using a functionalized tilted fiber grating. 2022

Xiaoyong Chen, and Pin Xu, and Wenwei Lin, and Jin Jiang, and Hang Qu, and Xuehao Hu, and Jinghua Sun, and Yukun Cui
School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China.

The detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) still faces a huge challenge partially because of low abundance of CTCs (1-10 cells/mL). In this work, a plasmonic titled fiber Bragg grating biosensor is proposed for detection of breast cancer cells. The biosensor is made by an 18° TFBG with a 50 nm-thick gold nanofilm coating over the surface of the fiber, further immobilized with a specific antibody against GPR30, which is a membrane receptor expressed in many breast cancers, serving as bait. In vitro tests have confirmed that the proposed biosensor can detect breast cancer cells in concentration of 5 cells/mL within 20 minutes and has good linearity in the range of 5-1000 cells/mL, which has met the requirement of CTC detection in real conditions. Furthermore, theoretical analysis based on the experimental results shows that the limit of detection can even reach single-cell level. Our proposed biosensor has a simple structure, is easy to manufacture, is of small size, and has a good performance, making it a good choice for real-time, label-free, and milliliter-volume detection of cancer cells in future.

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