RAS mutations in the blood of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are emerging as biomarkers of acquired resistance to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor therapy. Unfortunately, reliable assays granting fast, real-time monitoring of treatment response, capable of refining retrospective, tissue-based analysis, are still needed. Recently, several methods for detecting blood RAS mutations have been proposed, generally relying on multi-step and PCR-based, time-consuming and cost-ineffective procedures. By exploiting a liquid biopsy approach, we developed an ultrasensitive nanoparticle-enhanced plasmonic method for detecting ~1 aM RAS single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the plasma of CRC patients. The assay does not require the extraction of tumor DNA from plasma and detects it in volumes as low as 40 μL of plasma, which is at least an order of magnitude smaller than that required by state of the art liquid biopsy technologies. The most prevalent RAS mutations are detected in DNA from tumor tissue with 100% sensitivity and 83.33% specificity. Spike-in experiments in human plasma further encouraged assay application on clinical specimens. The assay was proven in plasma from CRC patients and healthy donors, and full discrimination between mutated DNA from patients over wild-type DNA from healthy volunteers was obtained thus demonstrating its promising avenue for cancer monitoring based on liquid biopsy.

Direct plasmonic detection of circulating RAS mutated DNA in colorectal cancer patients / D'Agata, Roberta; Bellassai, Noemi; Allegretti, Matteo; Rozzi, Andrea; Korom, Saša; Manicardi, Alex; Melucci, Elisa; Pescarmona, Edoardo; Corradini, Roberto; Giacomini, Patrizio; Spoto, Giuseppe. - In: BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS. - ISSN 0956-5663. - 170:(2020), p. 112648. [10.1016/j.bios.2020.112648]

Direct plasmonic detection of circulating RAS mutated DNA in colorectal cancer patients

Rozzi, Andrea;Korom, Saša;Manicardi, Alex;Corradini, Roberto;
2020-01-01

Abstract

RAS mutations in the blood of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are emerging as biomarkers of acquired resistance to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor therapy. Unfortunately, reliable assays granting fast, real-time monitoring of treatment response, capable of refining retrospective, tissue-based analysis, are still needed. Recently, several methods for detecting blood RAS mutations have been proposed, generally relying on multi-step and PCR-based, time-consuming and cost-ineffective procedures. By exploiting a liquid biopsy approach, we developed an ultrasensitive nanoparticle-enhanced plasmonic method for detecting ~1 aM RAS single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the plasma of CRC patients. The assay does not require the extraction of tumor DNA from plasma and detects it in volumes as low as 40 μL of plasma, which is at least an order of magnitude smaller than that required by state of the art liquid biopsy technologies. The most prevalent RAS mutations are detected in DNA from tumor tissue with 100% sensitivity and 83.33% specificity. Spike-in experiments in human plasma further encouraged assay application on clinical specimens. The assay was proven in plasma from CRC patients and healthy donors, and full discrimination between mutated DNA from patients over wild-type DNA from healthy volunteers was obtained thus demonstrating its promising avenue for cancer monitoring based on liquid biopsy.
2020
Direct plasmonic detection of circulating RAS mutated DNA in colorectal cancer patients / D'Agata, Roberta; Bellassai, Noemi; Allegretti, Matteo; Rozzi, Andrea; Korom, Saša; Manicardi, Alex; Melucci, Elisa; Pescarmona, Edoardo; Corradini, Roberto; Giacomini, Patrizio; Spoto, Giuseppe. - In: BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS. - ISSN 0956-5663. - 170:(2020), p. 112648. [10.1016/j.bios.2020.112648]
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