Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Direct digital sensing of protein biomarkers in solution

  • Georg Krainer,
  • Kadi L. Saar,
  • William E. Arter,
  • Timothy J. Welsh,
  • Magdalena A. Czekalska,
  • Raphaël P. B. Jacquat,
  • Quentin Peter,
  • Walther C. Traberg,
  • Arvind Pujari,
  • Akhila K. Jayaram,
  • Pavankumar Challa,
  • Christopher G. Taylor,
  • Lize-Mari van der Linden,
  • Titus Franzmann,
  • Roisin M. Owens,
  • Simon Alberti,
  • David Klenerman,
  • Tuomas P. J. Knowles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35792-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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There are limitations with current protein sensing methods. Here the authors report DigitISA, a digital immunosensor assay based on microchip electrophoretic separation and single-molecule detection that enables quantitation of protein biomarkers in a single, solution-phase step.