TY - JOUR
T1 - Microfluidic device for the discrimination of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA oligomers using electrochemically actuated alkaline dehybridization
AU - Zhang, Huaibin
AU - Mitrovski, Svetlana M.
AU - Nuzzo, Ralph G.
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - This work describes an integrated microfluidic (μ-fl) device that can be used to effect separations that discriminate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) based on kinetic differences in the lability of perfectly matched (PM) and mismatched (MM) DNA duplexes during alkaline dehybridization. For this purpose a 21-base single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) probe sequence was immobilized on agarose-coated magnetic beads, that in turn can be localized within the channels of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic device using an embedded magnetic separator. The PM and MM ssDNA targets were hybridized with the probe to form a mixture of PM and MM DNA duplexes using standard protocols, and the hydroxide ions necessary for mediating the dehybridization were generated electrochemically in situ by performing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) using O2 that passively permeates the device at a Pt working electrode (Pt-WE) embedded within the microfluidic channel system. The alkaline DNA dehybridization process was followed using fluorescence microscopy. The results of this study show that the two duplexes exhibit different kinetics of dehybridization, rate profiles that can be manipulated as a function of both the amount of the hydroxide ions generated and the mass-transfer characteristics of their transport within the device. This system is shown to function as a durable platform for effecting hybridization/dehybridization cycles using a nonthermal, electrochemical actuation mechanism, one that may enable new designs for lab-on-a-chip devices used in DNA analysis.
AB - This work describes an integrated microfluidic (μ-fl) device that can be used to effect separations that discriminate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) based on kinetic differences in the lability of perfectly matched (PM) and mismatched (MM) DNA duplexes during alkaline dehybridization. For this purpose a 21-base single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) probe sequence was immobilized on agarose-coated magnetic beads, that in turn can be localized within the channels of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic device using an embedded magnetic separator. The PM and MM ssDNA targets were hybridized with the probe to form a mixture of PM and MM DNA duplexes using standard protocols, and the hydroxide ions necessary for mediating the dehybridization were generated electrochemically in situ by performing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) using O2 that passively permeates the device at a Pt working electrode (Pt-WE) embedded within the microfluidic channel system. The alkaline DNA dehybridization process was followed using fluorescence microscopy. The results of this study show that the two duplexes exhibit different kinetics of dehybridization, rate profiles that can be manipulated as a function of both the amount of the hydroxide ions generated and the mass-transfer characteristics of their transport within the device. This system is shown to function as a durable platform for effecting hybridization/dehybridization cycles using a nonthermal, electrochemical actuation mechanism, one that may enable new designs for lab-on-a-chip devices used in DNA analysis.
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U2 - 10.1021/ac701660x
DO - 10.1021/ac701660x
M3 - Article
C2 - 17973402
AN - SCOPUS:36849033441
SN - 0003-2700
VL - 79
SP - 9014
EP - 9021
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
IS - 23
ER -