Study on the separation of amino acids in modified poly(dimethylsiloxane) microchips |
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Authors: | Yan Xiao Xiao-Dong Yu Kai Wang Jing-Juan Xu Jun Huang Hong-Yuan Chen |
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Institution: | aThe Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China |
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Abstract: | A mixture of five amino acids including arginine, histidine, phenylalanine, serine and glutamic acid was successfully separated in microchip capillary electrophoresis and detected with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detector. These amino acids were labeled with 5-(4, 6-dichloro-s-triazin-2-ylamino) fluorescein (DTAF). The analyses were performed on two kinds of modified poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microchips. One kind of chip was simply treated with oxygen plasma (OP-chip), and the other was further modified by coating double layers of non-ionic polymer poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) after plasma oxidization (PVA-chip). The derivatization condition of amino acids by DTAF was optimized. The properties of the two modified PDMS microchips were studied and separation conditions, such as the buffer pH, buffer concentration and separation voltage, were also optimized. The column efficiencies of the two microchips were in the range of 193,000–1,370,000 plates/m. The DTAF-labeled amino acids were sufficiently separated within 50 s and 90 s in 2.5 cm channels on OP-chip and PVA-chip, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Modified PDMS microchips DTAF Amino acids Poly(vinyl alcohol) |
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