Label free detection of phospholipids by infrared absorption spectroscopy

Tahsin Ahmed; Erick Foster; Genevieve Vigil; Aamir A. Khan; Paul Bohn; Scott S. Howard

doi:10.1117/12.2062094

27 August 2014 Label free detection of phospholipids by infrared absorption spectroscopy

Tahsin Ahmed, Erick Foster, Genevieve Vigil, Aamir A. Khan, Paul Bohn, Scott S. Howard

Proceedings Volume 9166, Biosensing and Nanomedicine VII; 91660H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062094
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present our study on compact, label-free dissolved lipid sensing by combining capillary electrophoresis separation in a PDMS microfluidic chip online with mid-infrared (MIR) absorption spectroscopy for biomarker detection. On-chip capillary electrophoresis is used to separate the biomarkers without introducing any extrinsic contrast agent, which reduces both cost and complexity. The label free biomarker detection could be done by interrogating separated biomarkers in the channel by MIR absorption spectroscopy. Phospholipids biomarkers of degenerative neurological, kidney, and bone diseases are detectable using this label free technique. These phospholipids exhibit strong absorption resonances in the MIR and are present in biofluids including urine, blood plasma, and cerebrospinal fluid. MIR spectroscopy of a 12-carbon chain phosphatidic acid (PA) (1,2-dilauroyl-snglycero- 3-phosphate (sodium salt)) dissolved in N-methylformamide, exhibits a strong amide peak near wavenumber 1660 cm^-1 (wavelength 6 μm), arising from the phosphate headgroup vibrations within a low-loss window of the solvent. PA has a similar structure to many important phospholipids molecules like phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and phosphatidylserine (PS), making it an ideal molecule for initial proof-of-concept studies. This newly proposed detection technique can lead us to minimal sample preparation and is capable of identifying several biomarkers from the same sample simultaneously.

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Tahsin Ahmed, Erick Foster, Genevieve Vigil, Aamir A. Khan, Paul Bohn, and Scott S. Howard "Label free detection of phospholipids by infrared absorption spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 9166, Biosensing and Nanomedicine VII, 91660H (27 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062094

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