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Cite this article as: Chin J Anal Chem, 2012, 40(1), 310. REVIEW
Abstract: Chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) has been applied in different fields, including environmental monitoring,
clinical diagnosis, food safety and pharmaceutical analysis, as a promising approach for selective, sensitive, rapid and simple analysis.
It is often necessary to detect a large number of complicated or low-abundance samples. However, traditional methods need great
consumption of time, reagents and labor, which limit their clinical applications. As a result, rapid, high-throughput, sensitive and
low-cost detection methods have become the development trend of CLIA. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in CLIA
and its applications in the last five years, and point out the future development of CLIA.
Key Words: Chemiluminescent immunoassay, Immunosensing, Rapid detection, Multiplexed detection, Review
(AuNPs), carbon nanotubes, SiO2 nanoparticles, quantum dots 3.1 Rapid chemiluminescent immunoassay
(QDs) and their nano-composite structures, have been used to
construct highly sensitive immunoassay biosensors. The wide Traditional immunoassay usually needs several hours to
range of applications of nanoparticles in labeling proteins has complete a run, which causes adsorption of immunoreagents
achieved breakthrough advancement[17,18]. Some nanoparticles in detection channel and cross-talk between analytes. As a
can not only directly catalyze chemiluminescent (CL) result, long incubation time limits the detection throughput of
reactions as enzyme mimics[1922], but also load a large number samples and the application value of CLIA. To avoid these
of enzymes to achieve signal amplification[2329]. drawbacks and accelerate immunoassay, external forces are
Nanotechnology has been widely used in CLIA to accelerate employed to perform effective mixing, and higher incubation
the rapid development of CLIA. temperatures are used to enhance immunoreaction kinetics.
This review introduces the basic theory of CL, summarizes Methods such as electroosmosis[44], magnetic stirring[45],
the recent progress of CLIAs whose assay time, throughput electrokinetic flow[46] and ultrasonic effects[47] can increase
and sensitivity have been significantly improved, and briefly mass transport so as to perform rapid CLIA. In 2007,
presents the prospects of the future development of CLIA. Morozov et al[48] designed a single microfluidic device, which
could electrophoretically capture charged analytes on an
2 Chemiluminescent immunoassay antibody array from flow. The collected analytes were then
detected with magnetic beads. The suspension of magnetic
CLIA is a method to determine the concentration of beads that specifically bind the analytes flowed through the
samples according to the intensity of the luminescence that the cell while a magnet attracted the beads to the surface, causing
chemical reaction emits. CLIA combines the CL systems and the slide over the array surface. This electrophoretically
the immunoreactions. Some reagents have been used as CL assisted zeptomolar microfluidic immunoassay with
labels, and upon the introduction of the CL substrates, the magnetic-beads detection could be finished in 3 min.
system produces chemiluminescence, so the samples can be The approaches driven by external forces generally need
detected quantitatively. The most popular CL substrates are complex or special equipment. Yang et al[49] proposed
luminol, isoluminol and their derivatives, acridinium ester flow-injection chemiluminescent immunoassay (FICLIA) by
derivative, peroxidase and alkaline phosphatase (ALP). combining carboxylic resin beads as immobilization support
Using enzymes to label proteins is still the mainstream in and a micro-bubble accelerated immunoassay process (Fig.1).
CLIA. The most commonly used labeling enzymes are This method was simple, rapid and flexible, and can
horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and ALP. The development of accomplish the whole assay including the pre-incubation,
enzymes and substrates with higher activity, better stability and detection and regeneration steps within 16 min.
more suitable kinetic curve is the hotspot in CLIA research. Passive mixing strategies use channel geometry to
The labeling technology is one of the key technologies in accelerate the mixing by lamination or rotation technique
modern immunoassay. The new label immunoassay without any external force[50]. When the fluid travels along a
technology has been widely applied in environmental curved trajectory, the centrifugal effect produces the
monitoring[30,31], clinical diagnosis[32,33], food safety[34,35], transverse flows, which enhanced the mixing.
pharmaceutical analysis[36,37] and bacteria identification[38,39],
which shows great application prospects. Because
nanoparticles have favorable biological compatibility and
signal amplification effect, nanotechnology has been
extensively used in bio-labeling, for example, AuNPs can be
used to label antibodies, and enhance the CL of luminol-H2O2
system. QDs are semiconductor nanoparticles that can accept
excited lights to produce fluorescence, which have more stable
quality, better reproducibility, longer activity and less
consumption than normal labeling enzymes of CLIA. Huang[40]
used CL as energy donor to excite QDs, and realized the CL
energy transfer for sensitive detection.
CLIA has the advantages of high sensitivity of CL and
specificity of immunoreaction. It has wide application and
great prospect in clinical diagnosis, food safety and
environmental monitoring[4143].
Fig.1 Micro-bubble-accelerated immunoreaction for fast flow-
injection immunoassay[49]
3 Recent development of CLIA Copyright 2008, Elsevier
WANG Chen et al. / Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 40(1): 310
Liu et al[51] developed a three-dimensional helical glass antibody immobilized PMs. After the vessels immersed in a
tubes for rapid mixing of immunoreagents (Fig.2). water bath for incubation, the mixtures were introduced into
Immunoreation kinetics is another crucial factor to accelerate four separation channels to perform online separation and
immunoassay, and infrared radiation can be used for fast washing. After the introduction of the substrate, the mixture
heating and temperature control[52,53]. The immunoreaction was delivered to record CL signals. The supporting-resolution
could be finished within 90 s because of the dual acceleration strategy used glass tubes and PMs as supports for antibodies
by the improved mass transport and enhanced reaction immobilization and automatically separated different analytes
kinetics. by a simple wash and magnetic capture step. This novel
automated support-resolution strategy and flow-through CL
3.2 Multiplexed detection of chemiluminescent multiplex immunoassay system indicated a promising
immunoassay practicability in automated rapid screen and clinical diagnosis.
Owing to their large surface areas and easy handling as
Multianalyte immunosensing system possesses the suspension and capture by magnet[5760], the magnetic particles
advantages of high throughput, short time, little consumption
and low cost[54], which is the goal of immunoassay, and is also
the hotspot of recent research. Multiple immunoassay
detection has two models: simultaneous detection and
sequential detection. Simultaneous detection usually combines
zone-resolved strategy and CCD equipment to detect all the
components in a single assay run. Sequential detection
provides a simple way to detect samples one by one in a
period. In recent years, with the development of multichannel
electrochemical workstation, multiarray piezoelectric sensor
and parallel photodiode array, electrochemical and optical
sensor arrays have been widely designed in multiplexed
detection. Multiplexed detection has experienced rapid
development since the main problems of sequential flow
injection analysis were resolved.
Ju et al[12] proposed a flow-through multianalyte CL Fig.2 Dually accelerated immunoreaction by infrared heating and
immunosensing system with substrate zone-resolved passive mixing[51]
technique, which could detect carcinoma antigen 125 (CA 125) Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society
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