Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 491-497Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am900884b
Keywords
DNA microarray; DNA synthesis; COC; synthetic biology; microfluidics; DNA origami
Funding
- Beckman Young Investigator Award
- Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
- National Science Foundation
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [1246799] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Thermoplastic materials such as cyclic-olefin copolymers (COC) provide a versatile and cost-effective alternative to the traditional glass or silicon substrate for rapid prototyping and industrial scale fabrication of microdevices. To extend the utility of COC as an effective microarray substrate, we developed a new method that enabled for the first time in situ synthesis of DNA oligonucleotide microarrays on the COC substrate. To achieve high-quality DNA synthesis, a SiO2 thin film array was prepatterned on the inert and hydrophobic COC surface using RF sputtering technique. The subsequent in situ DNA synthesis was confined to the surface of the prepatterned hydrophilic SiO2 thin film features by precision delivery of the phosphoramidite chemistry using an inkjet DNA synthesizer. The in Situ SiO2-COC DNA microarray demonstrated superior quality and stability in hybridization assays and thermal cycling reactions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that pools of high-quality mixed-oligos could be cleaved off the SiO2-COC microarrays and used directly for construction of DNA origami nanostructures. it is believed that this method will not only enable synthesis of high-quality and low-cost COC DNA microarrays but also provide a basis for further development of integrated microfluidics microarrays for a broad range of bioanalytical and biofabrication applications.
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