Ou Junjie, Glawdel Tomasz, Samy Razim, Wang Shuwen, Liu Zhen, Ren Carolyn L, Pawliszyn Janusz
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
Anal Chem. 2008 Oct 1;80(19):7401-7. doi: 10.1021/ac8010928. Epub 2008 Aug 29.
A poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic chip-based cartridge is developed and reported here for protein analysis using isoelectic focusing (IEF)-whole-channel imaging detection (WCID) technology. In this design, commercial dialysis membranes are integrated to separate electrolytes and samples and to reduce undesired pressure-driven flow. Fused-silica capillaries are also incorporated in this design for sample injection and channel surface preconditioning. This structure is equivalent to that of a commercial fused-silica capillary-based cartridge for adapting to an IEF analyzer (iCE280 analyzer) to perform IEF-WCID. The successful integration of dialysis membranes into a microfluidic chip significantly improves IEF repeatability by eliminating undesired pressure-driven hydrodynamics and also makes sample injection much easier than that using the first-generation chip as reported recently. In this study, two microfluidic chips with a 100-microm-high, 100-microm-wide and a 200-microm-high, 50-microm-wide microchannel, respectively, were applied for qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins. The mixture containing six pI markers with a pH range of 3-10 was successfully separated using IEF-WCID. The pH gradient exhibited a good linearity by plotting the pI value versus peak position, and the correlation coefficient reached 0.9994 and 0.9995 separately for the two chips. The separation of more complicated human hemoglobin control sample containing HbA, HbF, HbS, and HbC was also achieved. Additionally, for the quantitative analysis, a good linearity of IEF peak value versus myoglobin concentration in the range of 20-100 microg/mL was obtained.
本文报道了一种基于聚二甲基硅氧烷微流控芯片的试剂盒,用于采用等电聚焦(IEF)-全通道成像检测(WCID)技术进行蛋白质分析。在该设计中,集成了商用透析膜以分离电解质和样品,并减少不必要的压力驱动流。还在该设计中纳入了熔融石英毛细管用于样品注入和通道表面预处理。这种结构等同于商用基于熔融石英毛细管的试剂盒,以适配IEF分析仪(iCE280分析仪)来进行IEF-WCID。将透析膜成功集成到微流控芯片中,通过消除不必要的压力驱动流体动力学显著提高了IEF的重复性,并且使样品注入比最近报道的第一代芯片更容易。在本研究中,分别应用了两种微流控芯片,其微通道高度为100微米、宽度为100微米,以及高度为200微米、宽度为50微米,用于蛋白质的定性和定量分析。使用IEF-WCID成功分离了包含六个pH范围为3 - 10的等电点标记物的混合物。通过绘制等电点值与峰位置的关系图,pH梯度呈现出良好的线性,两种芯片的相关系数分别达到0.9994和0.9995。还实现了对包含HbA、HbF、HbS和HbC的更复杂的人血红蛋白对照样品的分离。此外,对于定量分析,在20 - 100微克/毫升范围内获得了IEF峰值与肌红蛋白浓度的良好线性关系。