Ulex Europaeus Agglutinin-I-Based Magnetic Isolation for the Efficient and Specific Capture of SW480 Circulating Colorectal Tumor Cells

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The efficient and specific capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients' peripheral blood is of significant value in precise cancer diagnosis and cancer therapy. As fine targeting molecules, lectins can recognize cancer cells specifically due to the abnormal glycosylation of molecules on the cancer cell membrane and the specific binding of lectin with glycoconjugates. Herein, a Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I)-based magnetic isolation strategy was developed to efficiently and specifically capture α-1,2-fucose overexpression CTCs from colorectal cancer (CRC) patients' peripheral blood. Using UEA-I-modified Fe3O4magnetic beads (termed MB-UEA-I), up to 94 and 89% of target cells (i.e., SW480 CRC cells) were captured from the cell spiking complete cell culture medium and whole blood, respectively. More than 90% of captured cells show good viability and proliferation ability without detaching from MB-UEA-I. In combination with three-color immunocytochemistry (ICC) identification, MB-UEA-I has been successfully used to capture CTCs from CRC patients' peripheral blood. The experimental results indicate a correlation between CTC characterization and tumor metastasis. Specifically, MB-UEA-I can be applied to screen early CRC by capturing CTCs when served as a liquid biopsy. The presented work offers a new insight into developing cost-effective lectin-functionalized methods for biomedical applications.

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Tian, R., Li, X., Zhang, H., Ma, L., Zhang, H., & Wang, Z. (2022). Ulex Europaeus Agglutinin-I-Based Magnetic Isolation for the Efficient and Specific Capture of SW480 Circulating Colorectal Tumor Cells. ACS Omega, 7(34), 30405–30411. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c03702

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