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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 79, Issue 22, Pages 8699-8704Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac071235x
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A digital microfluidic system based on electrowetting has been developed to facilitate the investigation of pre-steadystate reaction kinetics using rapid quenching and matrixassisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). The device consists of individually addressable electrodes arranged to allow the combination of liquid droplets at well-defined time intervals and an integrated, electrohydrodynamically driven mixer. The device combines two droplets to initiate a reaction, then, with precise timing, combines a third droplet to quench the reaction, and finally combines a fourth droplet to form a matrix. Improvements to throughput when compared to traditional laboratory-scale methods, and previous MALDI-TOF MS digital microfluidic systems, were made. The device was tested against a model protein tyrosine phosphatase system; and results agreed well with published data. The system therefore allows for the analysis of reaction kinetics that were previously too rapid to analyze using MALDI-TOF MS.
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