Volume 46, Issue 32 pp. 6111-6114
Communication

Polymer-Based Elemental Tags for Sensitive Bioassays

Xudong Lou

Xudong Lou

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto ON M5S 3H6, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-0541

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Guohua Zhang

Guohua Zhang

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto ON M5S 3H6, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-0541

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Isaac Herrera

Isaac Herrera

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto ON M5S 3H6, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-0541

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Robert Kinach

Robert Kinach

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Room 407, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-4317

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Olga Ornatsky Dr.

Olga Ornatsky Dr.

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Room 407, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-4317

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Vladimir Baranov Dr.

Vladimir Baranov Dr.

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Room 407, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-4317

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Mark Nitz Prof.

Mark Nitz Prof.

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto ON M5S 3H6, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-0541

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Mitchell A. Winnik Prof.

Mitchell A. Winnik Prof.

Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto ON M5S 3H6, Canada, Fax: (+1) 416-978-0541

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First published: 03 August 2007
Citations: 253

This project was funded in part by Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute and Ontario Cancer Research Network and NIH grant #GM076127-01A1

Graphical Abstract

It's elemental: A water-soluble polymer bearing multiple metal-chelating ligands has been used as a tag for bioassays with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The tag was covalently conjugated to antibodies, and the polymer–antibody constructs were loaded with lanthanide ions (Ln3+) and used for the simultaneous assay of five orthogonally labeled antibodies against cell surface antigens that differ in abundance by more than two orders of magnitude.

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