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ArticleACS omega2025

Hetero Sandwich Immunoassay as Tool to Probe the Composition of the Extracellular Vesicles Membranes: The Case Study of L1CAM Localization.

Helena Mateos, Antonia Mallardi, Esther Serrano-Pertierra, Maria Carmen Blanco-López, Maria Liguori, Ylenia Antonacci, Michele Casiello, Gerardo Palazzo

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Article in ACS omega, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Helena MateosDipartimento di Chimica and CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona n. 4 70125 Bari, Italy.
Antonia MallardiCNR-IPCF, Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes-Bari Division, National Research Council (CNR), 00185 Rome, Italy.
Esther Serrano-PertierraDepartamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular & Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8356-858X
Maria Carmen Blanco-LópezDepartamento de Química Física y Analítica & Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9776-9013
Maria LiguoriCNR-ITB, Institute of Biomedical Technologies-Bari Unit, National Research Council (CNR), Via Amendola n. 122, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Ylenia AntonacciCNR-ITB, Institute of Biomedical Technologies-Bari Unit, National Research Council (CNR), Via Amendola n. 122, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Michele CasielloDipartimento di Chimica and CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona n. 4 70125 Bari, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0836-9318
Gerardo PalazzoDipartimento di Chimica and CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona n. 4 70125 Bari, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-2177

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) are widely used for point-of-care diagnostic devices due to their simplicity, low cost, and rapid results. In this work, we demonstrate that a heterosandwich design LFIA can be an effective tool for verifying the presence of different proteins on the same particles. As a case study, we address a recent controversy regarding the presence of the protein L1CAM on the extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs are crucial for cell communication and may serve as valuable disease biomarkers, including for neurodegenerative disorders. EVs from neuronal cells can cross the blood-brain barrier and be selectively isolated from plasma. Although L1CAM has been suggested as a marker for neuron-derived EVs, recent studies report that L1CAM exists as a cleaved soluble protein in plasma, not associated with EVs. We propose a heterosandwich LFIA to detect and quantify L1CAM and a confirmed EV marker, tetraspanin CD63 or CD9, on the same EV. This assay, together with several control experiments on EVs isolated from plasma by size exclusion chromatography (SEC), demonstrates that although most L1CAM in plasma is present as soluble cleaved proteins, 13% of the EVs are strongly associated with this protein. This evidence is confirmed by dynamic light scattering measurements, showing a significant size increase of gold nanoparticles conjugated with L1CAM antibodies when exposed to EVs but not to cleaved soluble L1CAM. Our results validate the selective immune-isolation of L1CAM-EVs, resolving the controversy by confirming that L1CAM is indeed associated with a significant fraction of EVs despite the presence of its soluble form in plasma.

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