Time-Resolved Single-Step Protease Activity Quantification Using Nanoplasmonic Resonator Sensors

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Abstract

Protease activity measurement has broad application in drug screening, diagnosis and disease staging, and molecular profiling. However, conventional immunopeptidemetric assays (IMPA) exhibit low fluorescence signal-to-noise ratios, preventing reliable measurements at lower concentrations in the clinically important picomolar to nanomolar range. Here, we demonstrated a highly sensitive measurement of protease activity using a nanoplasmonic resonator (NPR). NPRs enhance Raman signals by 6.1 x 10(10) times in a highly reproducible manner, enabling fast detection of proteolytically active prostate-specific antigen (paPSA) activities in real-time, at a sensitivity level of 6 pM (0.2 ng/mL) with a dynamic range of 3 orders of magnitude. Experiments on extracellular fluid (ECF) from the paPSA-positive cells demonstrate specific detection in a complex biofluid background. This method offers a fast, sensitive, accurate, and one-step approach to detect the proteases' activities in very small sample volumes.

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