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tion in the relative peak intensity for lower concentrations can<br />

be caused by reorientation of NAADP molecules with respect<br />

to the gold nanoparticles’ surfaces in the SERS sensor. 31,32 The<br />

correlation between the SERS spectra of cells treated with<br />

acetylcholine and that of pure NAADP was conducted using<br />

principal component analysis (PCA). 33 Principal component analysis<br />

is a technique which minimizes the dimensionality of the<br />

analyzed data array and permits assessment of the degree of<br />

correlation between large data sets. It is one of the most widely<br />

used methods in chemometrics, and it has been demonstrated to<br />

be efficient for analyzing SERS data. 34-36<br />

According to the PCA results (Figure 5b), the control data<br />

acquired on untreated cells form a cluster which is denoted as<br />

“A”, away from the data of the treated cells, denoted as “B”. This<br />

confirms that the SERS sensor employed here distinguishes<br />

between the cells producing different amounts of NAADP.<br />

Furthermore, there is a clear correlation between the SERS<br />

spectra of the treated cells and that of the aqueous solution of<br />

100 µM NAADP. This concentration is within the range of the<br />

expected induced NAADP concentration increase, according to<br />

the protocol that was used in this work. While this concentration<br />

(32) Barhoumi, A.; Zhang, D. M.; Halas, N. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130,<br />

14040–14041.<br />

(33) Jolliffe, I. T. Principal Component Analysis, 2nd ed.; Springer: New York,<br />

2002.<br />

(34) Eliasson, C.; Loren, A.; Engelbrektsson, J.; Josefson, M.; Abrahamsson, J.;<br />

Abrahamsson, K. Spectrochim. Acta, Part A 2005, 61, 755–760.<br />

(35) Pearman, W. F.; Fountain, A. W. Appl. Spectrosc. 2006, 60, 356–365.<br />

(36) Hedegaard, M.; Krafft, C.; Ditzel, H. J.; Johansen, L. E.; Hassing, S.; Popp,<br />

J. R. Anal. Chem. 2010, 82, 2797–2802.<br />

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is higher than the one which can be detected with enzymatic and<br />

radioreceptor binding assays, there is a significant advantage of<br />

time efficiency and accessibility of the SERS-based method.<br />

CONCLUSION<br />

Label-free NAADP detection and quantification in cell extracts<br />

is enabled by SERS, which permits the rapid detection of NAADP<br />

with a 100 µM concentration without any special sample purification<br />

or labeling. Importantly, this concentration does not represent<br />

a limit for SERS sensing of second calcium messengers. We were<br />

able to successfully detect 10 nM concentrations of NAADP in<br />

aqueous solution, which is on the order of basal levels of NAADP<br />

in cells, suggesting that intracellular SERS detection of the calcium<br />

messengers is possible.<br />

ACKNOWLEDGMENT<br />

This work was supported by a W. M. Keck Foundation grant<br />

to establish the W. M. Keck Institute for Attofluidic Nanotube-<br />

Based Probes at Drexel University, by the Pennsylvania Nanotechnology<br />

Institute (NTI) through Ben Franklin Technology<br />

Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and by NIH Grants HL<br />

90804 and HL 90804-01A2S1 to E.B. Raman spectroscopy analysis<br />

and scanning electron microscopy were conducted at the Centralized<br />

Research Facilities (CRF) at Drexel University.<br />

Received for review March 2, 2010. Accepted July 2, 2010.<br />

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