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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 6, Pages 1539-1544Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac0480850
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Ibis paper describes a method, which combines optical trapping and microfluidic-based droplet generation, for selectively,and controllably encapsulating a single target cell or subcellular structure, such as a mitochondrion, into a picoliter- or femtoliter-volume aqueous droplet that is surrounded by an immiscible phase. Once the selected cell or organelle is encased within the droplet, it is stably confined in the droplet and cannot be removed. We demonstrate in droplet the rapid laser photolysis of the single cell, which essentially freezes the state that the cell was in at the moment of photolysis and confines the lysate within the small volume of the droplet. Using fluorescein di-beta-D-galactopyranoside, which is a fluorogenic substrate for the intracellular enzyme beta-galactosidase, we also assayed the activity of this enzyme from a single cell following the laser-induced lysis of the cell. Ibis ability to entrap individual selected cells or subcellular organelles should open new possibilities for carrying out single-cell studies and single-organelle measurements.
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