These data establish that tumor and cfDNA methylation can be used to identify small cell lung cancer (SCLC) subtypes and might guide precision SCLC therapy... cfDNA was extracted using the Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency Cell-Free DNA Isolation Kit."
Heeke S., Gay C.M., Estecio M.R. et al. Cancer Cell 2024, 42(2):225-237.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2024.01.001
Our integrative model detects early-stage cancers, including those of pancreatic origin, with high sensitivity that is comparable to that of late-stage detection... (Methods section) cfDNA was extracted from 0.4 mL plasma ... and eluted in a final volume of 22 μL, using an Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit."
Bae M., Kim G., Lee T.R. et al. Nat Commun 2023, 14(1):2017. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37768-3
Exploratory biomarker analyses showed decreased circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in patients with prolonged overall survival... cfDNA was extracted from the entire plasma volume of a single draw using the Apostle MiniMax cfDNA Isolation kit."
Palmer C.D., Rappaport A.R., Davis M.J. et al. Nat Med 2022, 28(8):1619-1629. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01937-6
The model detected four of the five hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases in the cohort, showing 80% sensitivity and 94% specificity. These findings demonstrate that the MCP technology has potential for the discovery and validation of multiomics biomarkers for the noninvasive detection of cancer. This study also provides a comprehensive database of genetic and epigenetic alterations in the cfDNA of a large cohort of HCC cases and high-risk non-HCC individuals." "cfDNA was extracted from the plasma samples using the Apostle MiniMax cfDNA isolation kit."
Wang P., Song Q., Ren J. et al. Sci Transl Med 2022, 14(672):eabp8704. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abp8704
In this study, we administered a recombinant bicistronic adeno-associated virus (AAV8) vector coding for both the light and heavy chains of the potent broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody VRC07 (AAV8-VRC07) to eight adults living with HIV... Plasma AAV8-VRC07 plasmid DNA was measured by extracting DNA from plasma... DNA was extracted from serum using an Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit, following the manufacturer’s protocol with slight modification."
Casazza J.P., Cale E.M., Narpala S. et al. Nat Med 2022, 28(5):1022-1030. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01762-x
This data suggests that liquid biopsy combining analysis of cfRNA with cfDNA is practical and may provide helpful information in predicting genomic abnormalities, diagnosis of neoplasms and evaluating both the tumor biology and the host response... We used Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfRNA/cfDNA isolation kit and followed the recommended protocol. After extraction, half of the cfDNA was treated with DNase to obtain cfRNA and the other half was used for DNA studies."
Albitar M., Zhang H., Charifa A.et al. Heliyon 2023, 9(5):e16261. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16261
The methylation-specific quantitative PCR (mqMSP) assay is cost-effective and easily implementable for routine clinical monitoring of colorectal cancer recurrence, which can lead to better patient management after surgery... Plasma DNA extraction was performed using 2 to 5 mL of plasma with the Apostle MiniMax High-Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit, according to the product manual."
Jin S., Zhu D., Shao F. et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021, 118(5):e2017421118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2017421118
Most notably, the Apostle particles outperformed all others, achieving almost 2-fold higher recovery yields than the particles supplied in the X kit."
Stark A., Pisanic T.R., Herman J.G. et al. SLAS Technology 2022, 27(3):172-179. doi: 10.1016/j.slast.2021.12.002
We used single-molecule sequencing-based (SMS-based) noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) to screen for common fetal aneuploidies in 477 pregnant women... Compared with NGS, SMS (without PCR) had less GC bias, a better distinction between T21 or T18 and euploidies, and better diagnostic performance... cfDNA was extracted from 0.6 mL of maternal plasma using Apostle MiniMax High-Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions."
Qian Y., Liu Y., Yan Y. et al. Lab Invest 2023, 103(4):100043. doi: 10.1016/j.labinv.2022.100043
H3K36me3 cfChIP-seq demonstrated increased enrichment of mutated alleles compared to normal alleles in plasma from patients with known somatic cancer mutations... Findings here expand the utility of cfDNA in liquid biopsies to characterize treatment resistance, cancer subtyping, and disease progression... Both the input as well as the cfChIP samples were purified using Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit according to manufacturer’s instructions."
Maansson C.T., Meldgaard P., Stougaard M. et al. Mol Oncol 2023, 17(5):722-736. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.13394
Plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from 2821 myeloid or lymphoid neoplasm patients were collected. cfDNA was sequenced using a 275 gene panel... This data shows that liquid biopsy using targeted NGS is reliable in detecting chromosomal structural abnormalities in myeloid neoplasms... Overall, this study supports the use of liquid biopsy for early diagnosis and monitoring of patients with myeloid neoplasms... We extracted cfDNA from 2821 peripheral blood samples using the Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit."
Ip A., Della Pia A., Kim G.Y.G. et al. Front Oncol 2022, 14:12:923809. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.923809
Elucidating the relationship between these pathways and the increased circulating mitochondrial DNA observed here will provide further insight into the cell-damaging effects of prolonged inhalation of e-cigarette aerosols... For measurement of in vivo plasma mtDNA/nDNA ratio, mice plasma was first subjected to cell-free DNA (cfDNA) extraction using Apostle MiniMax cfDNA extraction kit."
Peng G., Xi Y., Bellini C. et al. Am J Cancer Res 2022, 12(8):3679–3692
As a proof-of-concept, we developed a 222-plex Ultra-dPCR assay and demonstrated its potential use as a rapid, low-cost screening assay for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for as low as 4% trisomy fraction samples with high precision, accuracy, and reproducibility... Cell-free plasma DNA was isolated using the Apostle MiniMax kit according to the manufacturer’s protocol with an elution volume of 60 μL."
Shum E.Y., Lai J.H., Li S.. et al. Anal Chem 2022, 94(51):17868-17876. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03649/p>
Our study confirmed that SD regions are preferred biomarkers for aneuploidy detection and in particular SD-based digital PCR could find potential use for NIPT of trisomy... The cfDNA was isolated from 1 mL of each plasma sample by the Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit."
Jin S., Ye Q., Hong Y. et al. Clin Chem Lab Med 2020, 59(1):91-99. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2020-0300
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