METHOD FOR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN FREE LIGHT CHAIN DIMERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240418729A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-19

    申请号:US18704616

    申请日:2023-06-16

    Abstract: Some pathological conditions are accompanied by the increase in dimers of free light chains (FLCs) kappa and/or lambda. For instance, high levels of FLC dimers are found in AL amyloidosis, multiple myeloma, and multiple sclerosis. There is thus a need for sensitive methods that could specifically and quantitatively measure the amount of FLC dimers in a sample. The present application relates to a method for detecting and quantifying immunoglobulin FLC dimers in a sample that comprises subjecting the sample to proteolytic digestion under non-reducing conditions and subjecting the digested sample to mass spectrometry analysis to detect immunoglobulin free light chain dimer peptides. The method may be useful for diagnosis and monitoring of diseases characterized by the aberrant production of FLCs, such as plasma cell discrasias. Light-chain deposition disease (LCDD), autoimmune diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and inflammatory conditions.

    Solid State Multiple-functioning Nanostructured Organometallic D-Wave Pi Josephson Junction Toroidal Arrays Superconductive Quantum Interference Devices (SQUID) of Making and Applications Thereto

    公开(公告)号:US20240385137A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-21

    申请号:US18199845

    申请日:2023-05-19

    Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple functioning system for quantum sensing, scalable long time energy storage and quantum computing, as well as providing a dielectric insulator coating method, a solid-state component approach, and a delocalized direct-electron transfer relay in the nanopores “Five-petal Starflower”-like structured membrane to overcome the d-wave Pi JJ ground energy instability, and enables to act as a gate-controlled diode bridge suppressing supercurrent at a low scan rate. The system comprises multiple-layer organo-metallic cross-linked polymers forming various superlattice nanostructured “Five-petal Starflower”-like toroidal nano array membranes based on for sensing Cooper-pair wave transmissions causing intrinsic magnetic flux quantum observed based on a Josephson junction toroidal array, an insulator coating material and method, and a long JJ tunneling in the membranes promoted Cooper-pairs cross the Josephson toroidal junction barriers at zero-bias, and magnifying the quantum conductance. The One-Device-Assembly system enables a pj energy consumption for quantum qubits; or acting as a long-time energy storage device with high energy density; also acted as a quantum sensor sensing the presence of sub-nanogram per mL to 50 μg/mL level collagen that is inversely proportional to the supercurrent at zero bias under a media-free and electrolyte-free condition at room-temperature without an external magnetic field applied.

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