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Interferometric nanoparticle tracking analysis enables label-free discrimination of extracellular vesicles from large lipoproteins

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  • Kashkanova, Anna D.
  • Blessing, Martin
  • Reischke, Marie
  • Baur, Andreas S.
  • Sandoghdar, Vahid
  • Van Deun, Jan
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly gaining interest as biomarkers and therapeutics. Accurate sizing and quantification of EVs remain problematic, given their nanometer size range and small scattering cross-sections. This is compounded by the fact that common EV isolation methods result in co-isolation of particles with comparable features. Especially in blood plasma, similarly-sized lipoproteins outnumber EVs to a great extent. Recently, interferometric nanoparticle tracking analysis (iNTA) was introduced as a particle analysis method that enables determining the size and refractive index of nanoparticles with high sensitivity and precision. In this work, we apply iNTA to differentiate between EVs and lipoproteins, and compare its performance to conventional nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). We show that iNTA can accurately quantify EVs in artificial EV-lipoprotein mixtures and in plasma-derived EV samples of varying complexity. Conventional NTA could not report on EV numbers, as it was not able to distinguish between EVs and lipoproteins. iNTA has the potential to become a new standard for label-free EV characterization in suspension.

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