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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 80, Issue 16, Pages 6351-6357Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac8007626
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [EB003827] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK073901] Funding Source: Medline
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The microarray format is being used extensively for combinatorial screening of cellular interactions with proteins, small molecules, or biomaterials. The utility of microarray-based cell cultivation approaches may be enhanced further by incorporating biosensing elements alongside the cell-adhesive ligands to enable local detection of secreted cellular products. The concept of combining cells and sensing elements in the same microarray is demonstrated in the present paper with hepatocytes serving as a model cellular system. Robotic microarraying was employed to print arrays of 300-mu m-diameter collagen (1) spots alongside the antibody (Ab) spots specific to liver proteins: albumin and alpha 1-antittypsin (alpha 1-AT). Protein microarrays were printed onto poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel-coated glass slides, thus eliminating nonspecific adsorption of cells or proteins. When incubated with printed microarrays, hepatocytes became localized on collagen (1) domains but did not attach on Ab spots or elsewhere on hydrogel-coated glass substrates. Liver-specific proteins secreted by hepatocytes were captured on Ab domains in the immediate vicinity of the cells, detected with a sandwich immunofluorescent assay and quantified using a microarray scanner. Importantly, hepatic albumin and alpha 1-AT production detected in the microarray was comparable to enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay measurements of these proteins. In the future, the juxtaposition of sensing Ab regions with cell arrays will be particularly useful for the detection of local appearance or loss of phenotype of cells interacting with the printed components of the cellular microenvironment.
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