期刊
BIOMICROFLUIDICS
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871935
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资金
- 973 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2012CB933303, 2011CB707505]
- National Science Foundation of China [61271161, 61271162, 81101645]
- CAS Scientific Research Equipment Development Program [YZ201143]
- Shanghai Municipal Commission for Science and Technology [12nm0503702]
This paper presents a low-cost, power-free, and easy-to-use spotter system for fabrication of microarrays. The spotter system uses embedded dispensing microchannels combined with a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane containing regular arrays of well-defined thru-holes to produce precise, uniform DNA or protein microarrays for disease diagnosis or drug screening. Powered by pre-evacuation of its PDMS substrate, the spotter system does not require any additional components or external equipment for its operation, which can potentially allow low-cost, high-quality microarray fabrication by minimally trained individuals. Polyvinylpyrrolidone was used to modify the PDMS surface to prevent protein adsorption by the microchannels. Experimental results indicate that the PDMS spotter shows excellent printing performance for immobilizing proteins. The measured coefficient of variation (CV) of the diameter of 48 spots was 2.63% and that of the intensity within one array was 2.87%. Concentration gradient experiments revealed the superiority of the immobilization density of the PDMS spotter over the conventional pin-printing method. Overall, this low-cost, power-free, and easy-to-use spotting system provides an attractive new method to fabricate microarrays. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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