Guetschow Erik D, Steyer Daniel J, Kennedy Robert T
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , 930 N. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.
Anal Chem. 2014 Oct 21;86(20):10373-9. doi: 10.1021/ac502758h. Epub 2014 Oct 2.
High-throughput screening (HTS) using multiwell plates and fluorescence plate readers is a powerful tool for drug discovery and evaluation by allowing tens of thousands of assays to be completed in 1 day. Although this method has been successful, electrophoresis-based methods for screening are also of interest to avoid difficulties associated fluorescence assays such as requirements to engineer fluorogenic reactions and false positives. We have developed a method using droplet microfluidics to couple multiwell plate-based assays to microchip electrophoresis (MCE) to screen enzyme modulators. Samples contained in multiwell plates are reformatted in to plugs with a sample volume of 8 nL segmented by an immiscible oil. The segmented flow sample streams are coupled to a hybrid polydimethylsiloxane-glass microfluidic device capable of selectively extracting the aqueous samples from the droplet stream and rapidly analyzing by MCE with laser-induced fluorescence detection. This system was demonstrated by screening a test library of 140 compounds against using protein kinase A. For each sample in the screen, two droplets are generated, allowing approximately 6 MCE injections per sample. Using a 1 s separation at 2000 V/cm, we are able to analyze 96 samples in 12 min. Separation resolution between the internal standard, substrate, and product is 1.2 and average separation efficiency is 16,000 plates/s using real samples. Twenty-five compounds were identified as modulators during primary screening and verified using dose-response curves.
使用多孔板和荧光酶标仪的高通量筛选(HTS)是药物发现和评估的有力工具,它能在一天内完成数万次检测。尽管这种方法很成功,但基于电泳的筛选方法也备受关注,以避免与荧光检测相关的困难,比如需要设计荧光反应以及假阳性问题。我们开发了一种利用液滴微流控技术将基于多孔板的检测与微芯片电泳(MCE)相结合的方法来筛选酶调节剂。多孔板中包含的样品被重新格式化为体积为8 nL的样品塞,由不混溶的油分隔。分段流动的样品流与一种混合聚二甲基硅氧烷-玻璃微流控装置相连,该装置能够从液滴流中选择性地提取水性样品,并通过带有激光诱导荧光检测的MCE进行快速分析。通过针对蛋白激酶A筛选140种化合物的测试文库证明了该系统。对于筛选中的每个样品,会产生两个液滴,每个样品大约允许进行6次MCE进样。在2000 V/cm的电场下进行1 s的分离,我们能够在12分钟内分析96个样品。使用实际样品时,内标、底物和产物之间的分离分辨率为1.2,平均分离效率为16,000板/秒。在初次筛选过程中鉴定出25种化合物为调节剂,并使用剂量反应曲线进行了验证。