SOI-FET Sensors with Dielectrophoretic Concentration of Viruses and Proteins.

Quick label-free virus screening and highly sensitive analytical tools/techniques are becoming extremely important in a pandemic. In this study, we developed a biosensing device based on the silicon nanoribbon multichannel and dielectrophoretic controlled sensors functionalized with SARS-CoV-2 spike antibodies for the use as a platform for the detection and studding of properties of viruses and their protein components. Replicatively defective viral particles based on vesicular stomatitis viruses and HIV-1 were used as carrier molecules to deliver the target SARS-CoV-2 spike S-proteins to sensory elements.

Challenges of the Human Proteome Project: 10-Year Experience of the Russian Consortium.

This manuscript collects all the efforts of the Russian Consortium, bottlenecks revealed in the course of the C-HPP realization, and ways of their overcoming. One of the main bottlenecks in the C-HPP is the insufficient sensitivity of proteomic technologies, hampering the detection of low- and ultralow-copy number proteins forming the "dark part" of the human proteome. In the frame of MP-Challenge, to increase proteome coverage we suggest an experimental workflow based on a combination of shotgun technology and selected reaction monitoring with two-dimensional alkaline fractionation.

SOI nanowire for the high-sensitive detection of HBsAg and α-fetoprotein.

Silicon-on-isolator-nanowires (SOI-NWs) were used for the label-free, real-time biospecific detection of the hepatitis B marker HBsAg and cancer marker α-fetoprotein (AFP). Specific protein-protein recognition was carried out using individual NWs that were functionalized with antibodies. To solve the problem of non-specific binding of target protein molecules to the sensor element the use of a reference NW with immobilized antibodies against non-target proteins was proposed.

Gene-centric view on the human proteome project: the example of the Russian roadmap for chromosome 18.

During the 2010 Human Proteome Organization Congress in Sydney, a gene-centric approach emerged as a feasible and tractable scaffold for assemblage of the Human Proteome Project. Bringing the gene-centric principle into practice, a roadmap for the 18th chromosome was drafted, postulating the limited sensitivity of analytical methods, as a serious bottleneck in proteomics. In the context of the sensitivity problem, we refer to the "copy number of protein molecules" as a measurable assessment of protein abundance.