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Jiaheng Cui¹, Chenyao Feng², Xulan Chen³

¹School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States.

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This study introduces a novel superspectra framework for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to improve quantitative protein analysis. By combining signals from diverse surfaces, researchers achieved more accurate protein quantification, overcoming adsorption challenges.

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Area of Science:

Analytical Chemistry
Spectroscopy
Biomolecular Analysis

Background:

Quantitative protein analysis using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is hindered by inconsistent protein adsorption on plasmonic surfaces.
Developing robust SERS methods is crucial for accurate protein quantification in various biological and chemical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and validate a superspectra-guided SERS framework for enhanced quantitative protein analysis.
To investigate the impact of different surface chemistries and spectral combinations on quantification accuracy.
To establish design principles for effective superspectra construction in SERS.

Main Methods:

Functionalization of silver nanorod (AgNR) substrates with cysteamine (CM), cysteine (CN), 6-mercapto-1-hexanol (MCH), and unmodified AgNRs (B) to create diverse interaction environments.
Construction of superspectra by concatenating SERS signals from various combinations of these functionalized surfaces.
Evaluation of superspectra performance using support vector regression (SVR) and random forest regression (RFR) for quantitative analysis of bovine serum albumin (BSA).

Main Results:

Selective superspectra construction is critical; single-surface spectra lack diversity, and including all surfaces can decrease accuracy due to non-informative features.
Superspectra derived from complementary surface chemistries, specifically the CM&CN pair or B&CM&CN triplet, significantly improved quantitative prediction accuracy.
Random forest regression (RFR) demonstrated superior performance over SVR in integrating chemically heterogeneous spectral data.

Conclusions:

The study establishes design principles for constructing effective superspectra for protein SERS analysis.
Complementarity in analyte-surface interactions is key to achieving accurate and scalable protein quantification using SERS.
The developed framework offers a promising approach to overcome limitations in SERS-based protein quantification.