Sensitive discrimination of glycoproteins and cell differentiation with an array sensing platform exploiting pyrene-derived amphiphile/surfactant assemblies†
Abstract
An array sensing platform exploiting phenyl boronic acid-functionalized pyrene amphiphile/surfactant assemblies is constructed for glycoprotein discrimination, achieving a discrimination sensitivity of 50 nM. Gastric cancer cell lines of various differentiation grades are successfully discriminated, demonstrating its great potential in sensitive differentiation of glycoprotein-related samples in biomedical diagnosis.