cyanine-dye-3 and Prostatic-Hyperplasia

Diagnosing cancers based on serum profiling is a particularly attractive concept. However, the technical challenges to analysis of the serum proteome arise from the dynamic range of protein amounts. Cancer sera contain antibodies that react with a unique group of autologous cellular antigens, which affords a dramatic amplification of signal in the form of antibodies relative to the amount of the corresponding antigens. The serum autoantibody repertoire from cancer patients might, therefore, be exploited for antigen-antibody profiling. To date, studies of antigen-antibody reactivity using microarrays have relied on recombinant proteins or synthetic peptides as arrayed features. However, recombinant proteins and/or synthetic peptides may fail to accurately detect autoantibody binding due to the lack of proper PTMs. Here we describe the development and use of a "reverse capture" autoantibody microarray. Our "reverse capture" autoantibody microarray is based on the dual-antibody sandwich immunoassay platform of ELISA, which allows the antigens to be immobilized in their native configuration. As "proof-of-principle", we demonstrate its use for antigen-autoantibody profiling with sera from patients with prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia.

Topics: Aged; Antibodies, Monoclonal; Antigens, Neoplasm; Autoantibodies; Biomarkers, Tumor; Blotting, Western; Carbocyanines; Cell Line; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Fluorescent Dyes; Humans; Immunoprecipitation; Male; Middle Aged; Prostatic Hyperplasia; Prostatic Neoplasms; Protein Array Analysis; Serum