电泳芯片结构和芯片电泳分离操作参数的模拟、优化和实验验证

选择了L-精氨酸和L-苯丙氨酸为分离样品体系,根据电泳实验提出样品基本参数,通过模拟计算考察了进样管道宽度和进样时间对进样方差的贡献;根据分离度与分离长度拟合曲线确定电泳芯片的有效分离长度;对化学发光柱后衍生管道施加的夹流电压进行了模拟优化,得出氨基酸体系分离分析的电泳芯片设计方案和操作参数为:进样管道宽度为分离管道宽度的1/2,简单进样充样时间应大于5 s,分离管道有效分离长度为30 mm,衍生夹流比1.0~1.6。根据模拟优化结果提出了电泳芯片设计方案,采用整体浇注法制作带有柱后衍生反应器的PDMS电泳芯片,按照模拟计算提出的电压操作参数实现了精氨酸和苯丙氨酸样品体系的准确进样、芯片电泳分离和柱后衍生化学发光检测。电泳过程模拟结果和实验结果相结合,考察了柱后衍生对样品谱带展宽的影响,简单进样过程样品泄露引起的谱峰拖尾现象,并讨论了夹流进样法对减小进样方差和抑制样品泄露的贡献。     

阵列式对电极介电电泳芯片及其用于细胞分离富集研究

基于介电电泳原理, 设计并制作了一种新型的能够用于细胞分离和富集的微流控介电电泳芯片. 该芯片由沉积有金电极的石英基片和带有微管道的聚二甲基硅氧烷(PDMS)盖片组成. 通过在管道底部布置间距不同的对电极阵列, 增大了正介电电泳力在管道中的有效作用范围, 能够在降低施加电压的同时, 实现对流动体系中细胞样品的捕获. 在3 V和3 MHz条件下, 该DEP芯片对人血红细胞的捕获效率达到83%; 进一步通过将肝癌细胞捕获在芯片电极上可实现对红细胞和肝癌细胞混合样品的分离, 在5 V和400 kHz条件下对肝癌细胞的捕获效率达到86%.     

微流控分析芯片上生化反应技术研究进展

综述了近几年来在微流控芯片上以检测或动力学研究为目的而进行的各种生物化学反应技术,包括酶反应、免疫反应、酶联免疫反应、PCR反应,含氮氧化物释放反应。对非均相反应的蛋白质在微管道中的固定技术,均相反应的管道设计技术,以及在微流控芯片上集成生化反应的优越性等问题做了详细的讨论。     

芯片毛细管电泳电化学检测

电化学检测以其固有的灵敏度高、选择性可调、便于微型化、低功耗、低成本等特点,已成为芯片毛细管电泳系统中颇具潜力的检测方法。本文综述了近年来芯片毛细管电泳电化学检测技术的研究进展,包括芯片设计、加工、检测系统、检测方法等,并展望其发展方向。     

芯片毛细管电泳及其在生命科学中的应用

芯片毛细管电泳 (Chip CE)技术在近几年已取得了很大的进展。本文着重介绍芯片毛细管区带电泳技术 ,对等电聚焦、等速电泳、自由溶液电泳及胶束电动色谱等其它芯片电泳模式也有所提及。讨论了芯片材料和制作技术、芯片的几何形状、样品的操作和衍生、检测及芯片毛细管电泳技术的应用 ,特别是在核酸和蛋白质的分离分析中的进展     

电泳芯片的制作及其进样与分离

利用微细加工技术研究在玻璃上制作电泳芯片的方法,测试了微管道的伏安特性曲线。在该电泳芯片上进行了注样和分离实验,采用激光诱导荧光法进行检测,利用CCD拍摄了进样和分离的全过程。分析了电泳芯片上施加不同的电压对样品注样的影响,给出了FITC－OH和FITC－Arg分离谱图。     

微流控芯片毛细管电泳在蛋白质分离分析中的应用研究进展

重点介绍了近年来国内外在微流控芯片毛细管电泳法用于蛋白质分离分析方面的研究进展。按照分离模式的不同,综述了各种应用于蛋白质分离的微流控芯片毛细管电泳系统,讨论了抑制芯片中的蛋白吸附的各种方法,并展望了芯片毛细管电泳系统在蛋白质分离领域的发展前景。引用文献47篇。     

芯片国管电泳及其在生命科学中的应用

芯片毛细管电泳（Chip-CE)技术在近几年已取得了很大的进展。本文着重介绍芯片毛细管区带电泳技术，对等电聚焦、等速电泳、自由溶液电泳及胶束电动色谱等其它芯片电泳模式也有所提及。讨论了芯片材料和制作技术、芯片的几何形状、样品的操作和衍生、检测及芯片毛细管电泳技术的应用，特别是在核酸和蛋白质的分离分析中的进展。     

集成毛细管电泳芯片系统的制作、测试及应用

使用标准光刻和化学湿法腐蚀技术,在玻璃板材上制作了由样样管道和分离管道内构成的集成毛细管网路系统,对影响芯片质量的一些因素进行了讨论,并进行了性能测试和评价。芯片上毛细管道散热良好。使用激光诱导荧光和CCD成像检测系统,以电渗作用为驱动力,对混合样品进行了进样、快速分离（20s以内）和监测,证明了自制集成毛细管电泳芯片及检测系统的可行性。比较了两种注样方式（float和pinched)的不同;证明了在分离时可以优化加电策略,防止拖尾,改善峰形。     

可用于多种生物分析的高性能芯片毛细管电泳系统

本文采用激光诱导荧光的检测方法,搭建出高灵敏度的双通道共聚焦芯片毛细管电泳的检测系统。采用湿法刻蚀玻璃的方法获得了芯片管道的模具,并采用浇铸法在聚二甲基硅氧烷上获得高质量的微管道。将聚二甲基硅氧烷和石英玻璃贴合成为毛细管电泳芯片,该电泳芯片散热性能良好,可重复使用。以Cy5荧光素为样品,经实验证明该系统的检出限为17 pmol/L,并能在高达1 200 V/cm的场强下正常运行(高压电源的最高输出电压为1 200 V/cm),最高理论塔板数超过106N/m,表明该系统具有较高电泳效率。将该系统应用于氨基酸和DNA片段的分离分析,以及生物素标记的DNA与链霉亲合素的相互作用的检测,获得了较好的实验结果,说明该系统能够有效地应用于多种生物分析中。     

High-sensitivity capillary gel electrophoretic analysis of DNA fragments on an electrophoresis microchip using electrokinetic injection with transient isotachophoretic preconcentration

The research adopted a single-channel microchip as the probe, and focused electrokinetic injection combined with transient isotachophoresis preconcentration technique on capillary electrophoresis microchip to improve the analytical sensitivity of DNA fragments. The channel length, channel width and channel depth of the used microchip were 40.5 mm, and 110 and 50 μm, respectively. The separation was detected by CCD (charge-coupled device) (effective LENGTH=25 mm, 260 nm). A 1/100 diluted sample (0.2 mg/l of each DNA fragment) of commercially available stepladder DNA sample could be baseline separated in 120 s with S/N=2–5. Compared with conventional chip gel electrophoresis, the proposed method is ideally suited to improve the sensitivity of DNA analysis by chip electrophoresis.     

超高速平板通道毛细管电泳

超高速平板通道毛细管电泳是９０年代发展的一种秒级分离的新颖技术。应用现代微电子光刻技术将化学反应。进样、分离和检测等组合在数厘米玻片上。实现分离分析的小型化、集成化、一体化和自动化。     

Miniaturized two-dimensional capillary electrophoresis on a microchip for analysis of the tryptic digest of proteins

A two-dimensional capillary electrophoresis platform, combining isoelectric focusing (IEF) and capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), was established on a microchip with the channel width and depth as 100 mum and 40 mum, respectively. With polyacrylamide as permanent coating, EOF in the microchannel, which could impair the separation, was decreased to 3.4x10(-9)m(2).V(-1).s(-1), about 1/10 of that obtained in the uncoated set-up. During the separation, peptides were first focused by IEF in the first dimensional channel, and then directly driven into the perpendicular channel by controlling the applied voltages, and separated by CZE. Effects of various experimental parameters, including the electric field strength, channel length, and injection frequency from the first to the second dimensional separation channel, were studied. Under optimized condition, the digests of BSA and proteins extracted from E. coli were separated, and a peak capacity of 540 was obtained, which was far greater than that obtained by each single dimensional separation. All these results showed the promise of multidimensional separation on a microchip for the high-throughput and high-resolution analysis of complex samples.     

Integration of on-column immobilized enzyme reactor in microchip electrophoresis

A simple method integrating an immobilized enzyme reactor into a microchip electrophoresis device was developed. The enzyme immobilization into a microchip was performed by spotting and drying a drop of dissolved nitrocellulose (NC) on a glass substrate, and adsorbing enzyme on the reconstituted NC membrane. This enzyme-immobilized glass plate was assembled with a polydimethylsiloxane substrate on which the separation channel was fabricated. The advantage of this method is the ability to easily change the position and size of the reactor within the microchip electrophoresis device. A beta-galactosidase reaction was demonstrated with fluorescein di-beta-D-galactopyranoside using this integrated on-column enzyme reactor. A successful electrophoretic separation of its hydrolysis products, i.e., fluorescein mono-beta-D-galactopyranoside (FMG) and fluorescein, was achieved. Enzyme kinetics and inhibition of the beta-galactosidase using FMG and 2-phenylethyl beta-D-thiogalactoside, respectively, were also studied with microchip electrophoresis.     

Frontal analysis on a microchip

Conventional microchip applications involving capillary electrophoresis (CE) typically inject a sample along one channel and use an intersection of two channels to define the sample plug--the portion of sample to be analysed along a second channel. In contrast to this method of zone separation, frontal analysis proceeds by injecting sample continuously into a single channel or column. Frontal analysis is more common in macroscopic procedures but there are benefits in sensitivity and device density to its application to electrophoresis on microchips. This work compares conventional microchip zone analysis with frontal analysis in the separation of PCR products. Although we detect on the order of 5000 fluorophores with a compact instrument using the zone separation CE method, we found a several-fold increase in the effective signal-to-noise ratio by using a frontal analysis method. By removing the need for additional channels and reservoirs the frontal method would allow device densities to be significantly increased, potentially improving the cost-effectiveness of microchip analyses in applications such as medical diagnostics.     

Sensitivity enhancing injection from a sample reservoir and channel interface in microchip electrophoresis

The stacking of a cationic analyte (i.e., rhodamine B) at the interface between a sample reservoir and channel in a microchip electrophoresis device is described for the first time. Stacking at negative polarity was by micelle to solvent stacking where the dye was prepared in a micellar solution (5 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate in 25 mM phosphoric acid, pH 2.5) and the channel was filled with high methanol content background solution (70% methanol in 50 mM phosphoric acid, pH 2.5). The injection of the stacked dye into the channel was by simple reversal of the voltage polarity with the sample solution and background solution at the anodic and cathodic reservoirs of the straight channel, respectively. The enrichment of rhodamine B at the interface and injection of the stacked dye into the channel was clearly visualized using an inverted fluorescence microscope. A notable sensitivity enhancement factor of up to 150 was achieved after 2 min at 1 kV of micelle to solvent stacking. The proposed technique will be useful as a concentration step for analyte mixtures in simple and classical cross‐channel microchip electrophoresis devices or for the controlled delivery of enriched reagents or analytes as narrow plugs in advanced microchip electrophoresis devices.     

Ultrafast diagnosis of the genetic-related disorders using the combined technologies of multiplex PCR and multichannel microchip electrophoresis.

For the diagnosis of unexplained male infertility a multiplex PCR for 6 markers, which are well-known as candidate genes for studying male infertility and located on the human Y-chromosome, has been designed. The multiplex PCR products have been separated on a 12 channel microchip electrophoresis system, which can analyze different samples simultaneously. By combining the technologies of multiplex PCR with multichannel microchip electrophoresis, the number of the DNA markers that can be screened simultaneously is increased to be 72 marker (12 x 6) in a single run while the electrophoresis analysis time is reduced to be only 180 s.     

Capillary electrophoresis microchip coupled with on-line chemiluminescence detection

In the present work, chemiluminescence detection was integrated with capillary electrophoresis microchip. The microchip was designed on the principle of flow-injection chemiluminescence system and capillary electrophoresis. It has three main channels, five reservoirs and a detection cell. As model samples, dopamine and catechol were separated and detected using a permanganate chemiluminescent system on the prepared microchip. The samples were electrokinetically injected into the double-T cross section, separated in the separation channel, and then oxidized by chemiluminescent reagent delivered by a home-made micropump to produce light in the detection cell. The electroosmotic flow could be smoothly coupled with the micropump flow. The detection limits for dopamine and catechol were 20.0 and 10.0 μM, respectively. Successful separation and detection of dopamine and catechol demonstrated the distinct advantages of integration of chemiluminescent detection on a microchip for rapid and sensitive analysis.     

Study of a novel sample injection method (floating electrokinetic supercharging) for high-performance microchip electrophoresis of DNA fragments

Aiming to achieve high-performance analysis of DNA fragments using microchip electrophoresis, we developed a novel sample injection method, which was given the name of floating electrokinetic supercharging (FEKS). In the method, electrokinetic injection (EKI) and ITP preconcentration of samples was performed in a separation channel, connecting two reservoir ports (P3 and P4) on a cross-geometry microchip. At these two stages, side channels, crossing the separation channel, and their ports (P1 and P2) were electrically floated. After the ITP-stacked zones passed the cross-part, they were eluted for detection by using leading ions from P1 and P2 that enabled electrophoresis mode changing rapidly from ITP to zone electrophoresis (ZE). Possible sample leakage at the cross-part toward P1 and P2 was studied in detail on the basis of computer simulation using a CFD-ACE+ software and real experiments, through which it was validated that the analyte recovery to the separation channel was almost complete. The FEKS method successfully contributed to higher resolution and shorter analysis time of DNA fragments on the cross-microchip owing to more rapid switching from ITP status to ZE separation in comparison with our previous EKS procedure realized on a single-channel microchip. Without any degradation of resolution, the achieved LODs were on average ten times better than using conventional pinched injection.