我们感谢飞雨技术，聚醚，聚乙二醇表面活性剂在这项研究中使用的样品，我们感谢微机电资源中心（穆罕默德·碳粉，主任），用于创建的PDMS通道副本硅片模具。

本节中的协议描述了利用，特别是获得实验结果提出的材料和设备。需要注意的是可利用替代化学品和设备供应商。 1。设备制造和软光刻技术标准软光刻技术，21日已在以前的朱庇特的文章特色的数字，22个用于创建聚二甲基硅氧烷（PDMS）粘接到玻璃基板的微网络。除了从主副本SU-8光刻的模具制造，过程可能进行洁净室或洁净罩外;然而，尘埃和微粒仍然应该最小化，以达到一致的结果。 <ol><li>在AutoCAD（Autodesk公司）在图1所示，设计了一个微通道模式。聘请第三方制造商（Fineline影像公司）打印一个高分辨率（50,000 dpi）的反麦拉片或石英的渠道是一个黑暗的背景上透明的透明度面具。 </li><li>创建一个副本成型的硅和SU-8光阻主。简言之，旋转SU-8 2050年（MicroChem）负光阻旋转涂布机，以创造一个干净的7.5厘米或10厘米硅片上的厚厚的一层52微米的制造商建议的转。经过软烤，边珠去除紫外线照射，通过接触口罩，接触后烘，发展，和洪水接触，测量的SU-8层，使用的Dektak轮廓（Veeco公司）的实​​际厚度。磁带准备PDMS的副本成型模具师傅到4“或5”培养皿的底部。 </li><li>混合硅橡胶弹性体弹性体固化剂，在10:1的比例W / W基固化剂（道康宁）的基础上。倒入硅主充分混合的PDMS先导，以创建一个最终层厚度2-3毫米。一个橡胶基地20克，2克固化剂的混合物，是足以应付4“直径表面。 </li><li>放置的肥大ŕ模具和PDMS（Jencons）在真空干燥器的气体固化硅橡胶。使用压力调节器（科尔帕默），缓慢下降超过20分钟-27“汞”汞从0腔表压，以避免过多的泡沫。 -27“汞留在30分钟或直到气泡消失在真空室设备。 </li><li>释放真空，将主模和PDMS为65°C的烘箱中至少四小时（Thermo Scientific的）。该设备可能会留在一夜之间改善固化烤箱。 </li><li>从烤箱取出设备，并允许降温。仔细剪裁的PDMS周围圆形晶圆用一个精确的刀和剥离出的PDMS。 如图1所示，用手术刀切割设备的轮廓。 </li><li>打孔流体端口（每台设备3）在图1所示的三个圆形区域使用活检冲。此设备，使用0.75毫米外径冲（哈里斯）。 </li><li>坚持透明胶带图案的PDMS和剥离面，以消除任何灰尘。为节省成本，但可行的替代传统的氧等离子体仪器，21,22血浆治疗的PDMS和清洁3“×1”玻璃显微镜幻灯片的图案边，使用手持式实验室电晕处理机（电解工艺制品有限公司。）23请注意，此设备应在通风橱或通风良好的地方由于臭氧放电，所有手表和手机应保持至少10英尺的距离。调整最小的火花，达到一个稳定的电晕，电晕放电。慢慢地挥动电极约1/4“以上每面约20秒钟，然后立即把处理后的表面接触，形成了强大的永久债券前返回他们的原生状态的PDMS表面。 </li><li>设备上放置一块金属板，在阴凉烤箱，设定烤箱至120°C，烤一夜之间完成粘接的PDMS在这种高温烘烤，T返回到其原有的疏水状态。24他的玻璃表面的通道也将呈现疏水由于薄的疏水层的玻璃上沉积。另外，疏水涂层，如Aquapel（PPG工业公司）可能会被注入流体用1毫升注射器和针头端口12。谨慎但坚定地注入清除空气流体端口的PDMS没有打破玻璃债券Aquapel 。关闭任何多余Aquapel的边擦，以避免任何可能堵塞后，干燥的渠道存款，积极地重复对所有进口和出口的空气净化。 </li></ol> 2。样品制备<ol><li>根据您所选择的细胞类型的既定程序，准备细胞培养。 8-15微米的颗粒或细胞在这项研究中所使用的特殊设备，应充分订购封装。较小或较大的细胞类型，可能需要改变的重点通道的尺寸，以达到足够的再带够 。对于我本文thod示范结果表明，9.9微米的聚苯乙烯微球（G1000的Thermo Scientific的）被用作细胞的代理人。 </li><li>准备通过温和的混合水粒子或细胞悬液。当使用电池或聚苯乙烯颗粒，浓度控制是必要的（ 见图4），以达到理想的有序封装。使用以前的数据为指导，计算出所需的细胞或粒子浓度的基础上有序的列车间距和微通道尺寸为：一个细胞或颗粒每预期的纵向列车间隔时间聚焦通道截面积。如果股票浓度（1％W / W）是不够的，增加浓度（1.5％W / W）股票样本轻轻离心，除去上清液，和再悬浮旋涡混合，或温和的混合颗粒当使用电池。准备足够的量，占所需收集的数量和运行时间与FLOW调整。 </li><li>两种细胞和聚苯乙烯颗粒有一个特定的重力大于一。虽然没有在这个协议表明，持续多少分钟到几个小时的秩序的长期实验，浮力匹配的解决方案，通过添加溶质，如氯化钙颗粒或细胞OptiPrep（Sigma-Aldrich公司）。 </li><li>准备10毫升样品的连续氟碳油相混合氟碳油FC-40（3M）和聚醚-聚乙二醇嵌段共聚物表面活性剂（2.5％W / W）25（飞雨）在15 mL离心管。另外，轻矿物油，（交汇处过程化学品），可以利用ABIL-EM 90表面活性剂（2.5％W / W）（赢创高施米特公司）。 </li></ol> 3。实验装置<ol><li>倒置光学显微镜（Axio上观察，蔡司）和高速摄影机（幻影V310，视觉研究）的电源。重点和检查和杂物堵塞的渠道，或通过手动移动设备使用电动显微镜阶段。当液体流经一些小碎片可能会被推。对于大型的碎片或明显的木屐，选择另一个设备上的通道，在重点通道的碎片可以订购质量显着降低。请注意，木屐通常可以根据流量按上述钝镊子受灾地区的PDMS表面上牢固删除。 </li><li>切水入口的长度为（0.01“ID/0.03”外径，聚乙烯）PVC管材，进油口，和乳液插座。为了尽量减少死体积，减少刚够油管，以达到从注射器泵在显微镜阶段。切断油管两端45°角，以方便插入到流体港口。 </li><li>使用镊子，按适应管在第1步砸出流体端口结束，然后按各自的水和油口管（无粘合剂必要）的自由端放入两个30号钝尖不锈钢注射器针头（SmallParts） 。放入废物ŕ的出口管eservoir。该管稍后将搬进一家集水库。 </li><li>移动设备和连接管显微镜的阶段，调整，集中在设备的使用提供客观的喷嘴（20倍，本实验所用）。调整ķhler照明和其他显微镜设置为最佳录音。 </li><li>混合水相和油相的解决方案，准备在第2步3毫升注射器（BD），填补了1毫升注射器（BD）。请注意，任何体积的注射器，可使用取决于所需的运行时间和最小化任何搏动，应慎重选择。倾斜注射器垂直轻弹气泡移动到注射器插座。慢慢压低柱塞足以推动注射器尖端的空气。拿着注射器垂直，连接到步骤3.3的设备已经连接到各自的注射器针头的注射器。压下柱塞强行通过注射器针头死体积的空气，直到流体是p通过油管设备几乎ushed。牢固安装注射器，注射器泵（NEXUS 3000 Chemyx）和从事柱塞块。第二注射器重复的连接，并安装到第二个注射泵。 </li><li>每个注射泵的权力和程序，使用泵制造商的协议。设置初始流量为 Q 油 = 50μL/分钟和 Q AQ = 5μL/分钟，分别为油相和水相中。启动泵。 </li><li>等待每个流体进入设备填补渠道，推动了其余的死气。这可能需要几分钟。如果有大量的空气入口管，临时增加每个流量，直到空气被驱逐。不增加流量率如此之高，发生大的压力的通道，可能会导致硅橡胶，玻璃债券失败。 </li><li>使用初始流速，观察滴在喷嘴形成（结果显示在这里：20X magnificatioN，帧频21005 FPS，曝光3微秒）。减少相机领域的观点只喷嘴，以最大限度地提高帧速率和减少内存需求，如果可能的话。捕获样本的影片，并确认采样率是足够的，以避免走样。 </li><li>为了避免喷射（ 见图2），开始与低水的流速。慢慢增加水的流速，观察颗粒订货，只要流量的增加水溶液通道。 </li><li>如果颗粒物浓度太低提供相对较少的“失踪”的粒子和样品不匹配浮力的火车，身体倾斜，向注射泵的注射器出口提供的粒子向注射器出口的逐步解决。这种方法被证明在视频协议。定期注射器沿其轴线旋转，也可减少不受欢迎的沉淀。 </li><li>一旦发生足够的顺序，调整油流量调整代频率和滴的大小。可以计算平均下降量，利用水的流速由下拉代视频捕捉测量频率划分。反复调整两个流率，以达到预期的包封率和降量。 </li><li>一旦稳定有序封装证实，从废物水库出口油管移动到一个集合水库或送入另一个随后的测试设备。 </li><li>确定集合时间，根据所需数量的飞沫和计算的发电频率。 </li><li>记录包含0，1，2，...，N粒子使用或吸取样品收集乳液检查或者降代视频结果量化效率下降的一小部分。 </li></ol> 4。代表结果结果，提出了实现同时控制单粒子和控制的双粒子封装（ 图3）。通过削减FC-40在半油流率，单粒子封装成为两粒子封装。相反，我们可以增加水的流速，更迅速地提供颗粒的喷嘴，但我们也将增加喷射水流的风险。在图3的直方图提出该两宗案件的每一滴水颗粒小数，随着泊松统计的比较。零颗粒，偶尔滴，主要是由于“失踪”在有序的列车颗粒，而那里有从局部高颗粒浓度和颗粒有时朝两个垂直聚焦位置迁移的结果比预期的更封装颗粒的案件。请注意没有利用浮力匹配，如在第2节所述。相反，注射泵，身体倾斜，允许向注射器出口的粒子沉降，导致高浓度的运行过程中的颗粒。 <p类=的“jove_content”&gt;说明需要适当的颗粒和细胞浓度的实验运行， 如图4所示。没有充分的顺序，颗粒秩序的本地化团体和封装，但很多滴，无颗粒。直方图显示所需的颗粒封装包封率下降。 <img alt="图1" src="/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096fig1.jpg" /> 图1。封装设备。 a）整体设备入口，出口和长期订购通道。设备高度为52μm和订购的通道宽度为27微米。 B）水和油入口有大的杂物过滤器订购通道宽度放大的进油口秩序的差距。三）扩大喷嘴视图显示等通道宽度由22微米的喷嘴，突然扩展到更宽的61微米通道收缩水和油的渠道，其次为27微米。请注意，这里显示设备的尺寸已经验证，使用后微细1轮廓，从面具的标称尺寸略有不同。订购通道和喷嘴的真实形象可在网上作为<a href="http://www.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096fig1supplement.jpg" target="_blank">参考图1</a> 。 <a href="http://www.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096_mask.dwg" target="_blank">AutoCAD的掩码文件</a>也被列入网上这个手稿的补充。 <img alt="图2" src="/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096fig2.jpg" /> 图2。一个滴水喷射过渡使用更广泛的设备（高80μm宽×22微米）的迟滞。一）常数的FC-40流量（问油 = 45μL/分钟），采用水溶液流量 Q AQ = 8μL/ min的稳步下降的形成发生在10 kHz。由于水的流速缓慢上升到10＆MU;升/分钟，水流体流喷射触发。 b）当流量返回到8μL/ min的喷射持续。注意稳步下降形成简要暂停水流量泵（1秒的停顿是典型的），可以重新建立。 <img alt="图3" src="/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096fig3.jpg" /> 图3。单粒子和双封装。掉落的形成与每下降一个细胞（）Q 油 = 60μL/分钟，问AQ = 9μL/分钟）下降了6.1 kHz的生成率，平均降幅大小24.4 PL，和ðK = 79.5％，P K = n个样本大小为83.7％（λ= 0.95）D = 517滴和N P = 491颗粒。 二）与两个细胞下降形成一种单细胞的采集效率每一滴水，实现简单的FC-40 流量 Q 石油减少30μ升/分钟。较大（39.8 PL）下降3.8千赫的速度形成两个细胞的采集效率ðķ= 71.5％，P K = 79.5％（λ= 1.80）为n 的样本大小= 383滴和 n P = 689粒子。CD）两个直方图比较下降封装颗粒效率D的定购单和双粒子与泊松统计（随机封装）封装ķ。请注意，这两种情况下，完全有序，交替颗粒在流动方向的粒子间距约17-18微米。补充视频显示单粒子和双封装可在网上<a href="http://www.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096movie3a.avi" target="_blank">点击这里查看补充电影3A</a> <a href="http://www.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096movie3b.avi" target="_blank">点击这里查看补充电影3B</a> 。 图4。浓度的包封率有很大影响。A）随着浓度的降低，充分顺序不会发生，因此，“洞”在列车的出现，留下一些下降少于预期颗粒。 二）直方图显示的效率下降（ ðķ= 55.9％，P K = 70.9％，为两粒子的封装，由于较低的λ值= 1.57那里有几乎同样多的单粒子下降，因为有双粒子滴）。这个数字结果从 Q 油 = 30μL/ min的和 Q AQ = 9μL/ min的相同流量条件下， 图3b。一位代表补充视频可在网上<a href="http://www.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/4096/4096movie4.avi" target="_blank">点击这里查看补充电影4</a> 。

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乙脑是在这个手稿中使用的技术为基础的待批专利的发明者。

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high throughput single-cell and multiple-cell micro-encapsulation

Microfluidic encapsulation methods have been previously utilized to capture cells in picoliter-scale aqueous, monodisperse drops, providing confinement from a bulk fluid environment with applications in high throughput screening, cytometry, and mass spectrometry. We describe a method to not only encapsulate single cells, but to repeatedly capture a set number of cells (here we demonstrate one- and two-cell encapsulation) to study both isolation and the interactions between cells in groups of controlled sizes. By combining drop generation techniques with cell and particle ordering, we demonstrate controlled encapsulation of cell-sized particles for efficient, continuous encapsulation. Using an aqueous particle suspension and immiscible fluorocarbon oil, we generate aqueous drops in oil with a flow focusing nozzle. The aqueous flow rate is sufficiently high to create ordering of particles which reach the nozzle at integer multiple frequencies of the drop generation frequency, encapsulating a controlled number of cells in each drop. For representative results, 9.9 &mu;m polystyrene particles are used as cell surrogates. This study shows a single-particle encapsulation efficiency Pk=1 of 83.7% and a double-particle encapsulation efficiency Pk=2 of 79.5% as compared to their respective Poisson efficiencies of 39.3% and 33.3%, respectively. The effect of consistent cell and particle concentration is demonstrated to be of major importance for efficient encapsulation, and dripping to jetting transitions are also addressed. 
Introduction 
Continuous media aqueous cell suspensions share a common fluid environment which allows cells to interact in parallel and also homogenizes the effects of specific cells in measurements from the media. High-throughput encapsulation of cells into picoliter-scale drops confines the samples to protect drops from cross-contamination, enable a measure of cellular diversity within samples, prevent dilution of reagents and expressed biomarkers, and amplify signals from bioreactor products. Drops also provide the ability to re-merge drops into larger aqueous samples or with other drops for intercellular signaling studies.1,2 The reduction in dilution implies stronger detection signals for higher accuracy measurements as well as the ability to reduce potentially costly sample and reagent volumes.3 Encapsulation of cells in drops has been utilized to improve detection of protein expression,4 antibodies,5,6 enzymes,7 and metabolic activity8 for high throughput screening, and could be used to improve high throughput cytometry.9 Additional studies present applications in bio-electrospraying of cell containing drops for mass spectrometry10 and targeted surface cell coatings.11 Some applications, however, have been limited by the lack of ability to control the number of cells encapsulated in drops. Here we present a method of ordered encapsulation12 which increases the demonstrated encapsulation efficiencies for one and two cells and may be extrapolated for encapsulation of a larger number of cells.
To achieve monodisperse drop generation, microfluidic "flow focusing" enables the creation of controllable-size drops of one fluid (an aqueous cell mixture) within another (a continuous oil phase) by using a nozzle at which the streams converge.13 For a given nozzle geometry, the drop generation frequency f and drop size can be altered by adjusting oil and aqueous flow rates Qoil and Qaq. As the flow rates increase, the flows may transition from drop generation to unstable jetting of aqueous fluid from the nozzle.14 
When the aqueous solution contains suspended particles, particles become encapsulated and isolated from one another at the nozzle. For drop generation using a randomly distributed aqueous cell suspension, the average fraction of drops Dk containing k cells is dictated by Poisson statistics, where Dk = &lambda;k exp(-&lambda;)/(k!) and &lambda; is the average number of cells per drop. The fraction of cells which end up in the "correctly" encapsulated drops is calculated using Pk = (k x Dk)/&Sigma;(k' x Dk'). The subtle difference between the two metrics is that Dk relates to the utilization of aqueous fluid and the amount of drop sorting that must be completed following encapsulation, and Pk relates to the utilization of the cell sample. As an example, one could use a dilute cell suspension (low &lambda;) to encapsulate drops where most drops containing cells would contain just one cell. While the efficiency metric Pk would be high, the majority of drops would be empty (low Dk), thus requiring a sorting mechanism to remove empty drops, also reducing throughput.15
Combining drop generation with inertial ordering provides the ability to encapsulate drops with more predictable numbers of cells per drop and higher throughputs than random encapsulation. Inertial focusing was first discovered by Segre and Silberberg16 and refers to the tendency of finite-sized particles to migrate to lateral equilibrium positions in channel flow. Inertial ordering refers to the tendency of the particles and cells to passively organize into equally spaced, staggered, constant velocity trains. Both focusing and ordering require sufficiently high flow rates (high Reynolds number) and particle sizes (high Particle Reynolds number).17,18 Here, the Reynolds number Re =uDh/&nu; and particle Reynolds number Rep =Re(a/Dh)2, where u is a characteristic flow velocity, Dh [=2wh/(w+h)] is the hydraulic diameter, &nu; is the kinematic viscosity, a is the particle diameter, w is the channel width, and h is the channel height. Empirically, the length required to achieve fully ordered trains decreases as Re and Rep increase. Note that the high Re and Rep requirements (for this study on the order of 5 and 0.5, respectively) may conflict with the need to keep aqueous flow rates low to avoid jetting at the drop generation nozzle. Additionally, high flow rates lead to higher shear stresses on cells, which are not addressed in this protocol. The previous ordered encapsulation study demonstrated that over 90% of singly encapsulated HL60 cells under similar flow conditions to those in this study maintained cell membrane integrity.12 However, the effect of the magnitude and time scales of shear stresses will need to be carefully considered when extrapolating to different cell types and flow parameters. The overlapping of the cell ordering, drop generation, and cell viability aqueous flow rate constraints provides an ideal operational regime for controlled encapsulation of single and multiple cells.
Because very few studies address inter-particle train spacing,19,20 determining the spacing is most easily done empirically and will depend on channel geometry, flow rate, particle size, and particle concentration. Nonetheless, the equal lateral spacing between trains implies that cells arrive at predictable, consistent time intervals. When drop generation occurs at the same rate at which ordered cells arrive at the nozzle, the cells become encapsulated within the drop in a controlled manner. This technique has been utilized to encapsulate single cells with throughputs on the order of 15 kHz,12 a significant improvement over previous studies reporting encapsulation rates on the order of 60-160 Hz.4,15 In the controlled encapsulation work, over 80% of drops contained one and only one cell, a significant efficiency improvement over Poisson (random) statistics, which predicts less than 40% efficiency on average.12
In previous controlled encapsulation work,12 the average number of particles per drop &lambda; was tuned to provide single-cell encapsulation. We hypothesize that through tuning of flow rates, we can efficiently encapsulate any number of cells per drop when &lambda; is equal or close to the number of desired cells per drop. While single-cell encapsulation is valuable in determining individual cell responses from stimuli, multiple-cell encapsulation provides information relating to the interaction of controlled numbers and types of cells. Here we present a protocol, representative results using polystyrene microspheres, and discussion for controlled encapsulation of multiple cells using a passive inertial ordering channel and drop generation nozzle.

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High Throughput Single-cell and Multiple-cell Micro-encapsulation

结合单分散细胞和颗粒的惯性顺序降代，我们描述了一种方法封装在一个单一千赫率下降所需的细胞或颗粒数。我们证明效率两次超过无序封装的单粒子和双滴。

高吞吐量的单细胞和多细胞微胶囊

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18.5K 次观看.  Vanderbilt University. 结合单分散细胞和颗粒的惯性顺序降代，我们描述了一种方法封装在一个单一千赫率下降所需的细胞或颗粒数。我们证明效率两次超过无序封装的单粒子和双滴。

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Polymer Microarrays for High Throughput Discovery of Biomaterials

The discovery of novel biomaterials that are optimized for a specific biological application is readily achieved using polymer microarrays, which allows a combinatorial library of materials to be screened in a parallel, high throughput format1. Herein is described the formation and characterization of a polymer microarray using an on-chip photopolymerization technique 2. This involves mixing monomers at varied ratios to produce a library of monomer solutions, transferring the solution to a glass slide format using a robotic printing device and curing with UV irradiation. This format is readily amenable to many biological assays, including stem cell attachment and proliferation, cell sorting and low bacterial adhesion, allowing the ready identification of 'hit' materials that fulfill a specific biological criterion3-5. Furthermore, the use of high throughput surface characterization (HTSC) allows the biological performance to be correlated with physio-chemical properties, hence elucidating the biological-material interaction6. HTSC makes use of water contact angle (WCA) measurements, atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). In particular, ToF-SIMS provides a chemically rich analysis of the sample that can be used to correlate the cell response with a molecular moiety. In some cases, the biological performance can be predicted from the ToF-SIMS spectra, demonstrating the chemical dependence of a biological-material interaction, and informing the development of hit materials5,3.

A description of the formation of a polymer microarray using an on-chip photopolymerization technique. The high throughput surface characterization using atomic force microscopy, water contact angle measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and a cell attachment assay is also described.

聚合物芯片高通量发现的生物材料

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High-throughput Protein Expression Generator Using a Microfluidic Platform

Rapidly increasing fields, such as systems biology, require the development and implementation of new technologies, enabling high-throughput and high-fidelity measurements of large systems. Microfluidics promises to fulfill many of these requirements, such as performing high-throughput screening experiments on-chip, encompassing biochemical, biophysical, and cell-based assays1. Since the early days of microfluidics devices, this field has drastically evolved, leading to the development of microfluidic large-scale integration2,3. This technology allows for the integration of thousands of micromechanical valves on a single device with a postage-sized footprint (Figure 1). We have developed a high-throughput microfluidic platform for generating in vitro expression of protein arrays (Figure 2) named PING (Protein Interaction Network Generator). These arrays can serve as a template for many experiments such as protein-protein 4, protein-RNA5 or protein-DNA6 interactions.
The device consist of thousands of reaction chambers, which are individually programmed using a microarrayer. Aligning of these printed microarrays to microfluidics devices programs each chamber with a single spot eliminating potential contamination or cross-reactivity Moreover, generating microarrays using standard microarray spotting techniques is also very modular, allowing for the arraying of proteins7, DNA8, small molecules, and even colloidal suspensions. The potential impact of microfluidics on biological sciences is significant. A number of microfluidics based assays have already provided novel insights into the structure and function of biological systems, and the field of microfluidics will continue to impact biology.

We present a microfluidic approach for the expression of protein arrays. The device consists of thousands of reaction chambers controlled by micro-mechanical valves. The microfluidic device is mated to a microarray-printed gene library. These genes are then transcribed and translated on-chip, resulting in a protein array ready for experimental use.

利用微流控平台的高通量蛋白质表达发生器

Rapidly increasing fields, such as systems biology, require the development and implementation of new technologies, enabling high-throughput and ...

Combinatorial Synthesis of and High-throughput Protein Release from Polymer Film and Nanoparticle Libraries

Polyanhydrides are a class of biomaterials with excellent biocompatibility and drug delivery capabilities. While they have been studied extensively with conventional one-sample-at-a-time synthesis techniques, a more recent high-throughput approach has been developed enabling the synthesis and testing of large libraries of polyanhydrides1. This will facilitate more efficient optimization and design process of these biomaterials for drug and vaccine delivery applications. The method in this work describes the combinatorial synthesis of biodegradable polyanhydride film and nanoparticle libraries and the high-throughput detection of protein release from these libraries. In this robotically operated method (Figure 1), linear actuators and syringe pumps are controlled by LabVIEW, which enables a hands-free automated protocol, eliminating user error. Furthermore, this method enables the rapid fabrication of micro-scale polymer libraries, reducing the batch size while resulting in the creation of multivariant polymer systems. This combinatorial approach to polymer synthesis facilitates the synthesis of up to 15 different polymers in an equivalent amount of time it would take to synthesize one polymer conventionally. In addition, the combinatorial polymer library can be fabricated into blank or protein-loaded geometries including films or nanoparticles upon dissolution of the polymer library in a solvent and precipitation into a non-solvent (for nanoparticles) or by vacuum drying (for films). Upon loading a fluorochrome-conjugated protein into the polymer libraries, protein release kinetics can be assessed at high-throughput using a fluorescence-based detection method (Figures 2 and 3) as described previously1. This combinatorial platform has been validated with conventional methods2 and the polyanhydride film and nanoparticle libraries have been characterized with 1H NMR and FTIR. The libraries have been screened for protein release kinetics, stability and antigenicity; in vitro cellular toxicity, cytokine production, surface marker expression, adhesion, proliferation and differentiation; and in vivo biodistribution and mucoadhesion1-11. The combinatorial method developed herein enables high-throughput polymer synthesis and fabrication of protein-loaded nanoparticle and film libraries, which can, in turn, be screened in vitro and in vivo for optimization of biomaterial performance.

This method describes the combinatorial synthesis of biodegradable polyanhydride film and nanoparticle libraries and the high-throughput detection of protein release from these libraries.

组合合成和高通量的蛋白质释放的聚合物薄膜和纳米粒子库

Polyanhydrides are a class of biomaterials with excellent biocompatibility and drug delivery capabilities. While they have been studied extensively with ...

High-throughput Synthesis of Carbohydrates and Functionalization of Polyanhydride Nanoparticles

Transdisciplinary approaches involving areas such as material design, nanotechnology, chemistry, and immunology have to be utilized to rationally design efficacious vaccines carriers. Nanoparticle-based platforms can prolong the persistence of vaccine antigens, which could improve vaccine immunogenicity1. Several biodegradable polymers have been studied as vaccine delivery vehicles1; in particular, polyanhydride particles have demonstrated the ability to provide sustained release of stable protein antigens and to activate antigen presenting cells and modulate immune responses2-12.
The molecular design of these vaccine carriers needs to integrate the rational selection of polymer properties as well as the incorporation of appropriate targeting agents. High throughput automated fabrication of targeting ligands and functionalized particles is a powerful tool that will enhance the ability to study a wide range of properties and will lead to the design of reproducible vaccine delivery devices.
The addition of targeting ligands capable of being recognized by specific receptors on immune cells has been shown to modulate and tailor immune responses10,11,13 C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) are pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that recognize carbohydrates present on the surface of pathogens. The stimulation of immune cells via CLRs allows for enhanced internalization of antigen and subsequent presentation for further T cell activation14,15. Therefore, carbohydrate molecules play an important role in the study of immune responses; however, the use of these biomolecules often suffers from the lack of availability of structurally well-defined and pure carbohydrates. An automation platform based on iterative solution-phase reactions can enable rapid and controlled synthesis of these synthetically challenging molecules using significantly lower building block quantities than traditional solid-phase methods16,17.
Herein we report a protocol for the automated solution-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides such as mannose-based targeting ligands with fluorous solid-phase extraction for intermediate purification. After development of automated methods to make the carbohydrate-based targeting agent, we describe methods for their attachment on the surface of polyanhydride nanoparticles employing an automated robotic set up operated by LabVIEW as previously described10. Surface functionalization with carbohydrates has shown efficacy in targeting CLRs10,11 and increasing the throughput of the fabrication method to unearth the complexities associated with a multi-parametric system will be of great value (Figure 1a).

In this article, a high throughput method is presented for the synthesis of oligosaccharides and their attachment to the surface of polyanhydride nanoparticles for further use in targeting specific receptors on antigen presenting cells.

碳水化合物和聚酸酐纳米粒子功能化的高通量合成

Transdisciplinary approaches involving areas such as material design, nanotechnology, chemistry, and immunology have to be utilized to rationally design ...

High Throughput Microfluidic Rapid and Low Cost Prototyping Packaging Methods

In this work, 3 different packaging and assembly techniques are presented. They can be classified into two categories: one-time use and reusable packaging techniques.
The one-time use packaging technique employs UV-based and temperature curing epoxies to connect microtubes to access holes, wire-bonding for integrated circuit connections, and silver epoxy for electrical connections. This method is based on a robust assembly technique that can support relatively high pressure close to 1 psi and does not need any support to strengthen the microfluidic architecture.
Reusable packaging techniques consist of PDMS-based microtube interconnectors and anisotropic adhesive films for electrical connections. These devices are more sensitive and fragile. Consequently, Plexiglas support is added to the microfluidic structure to improve the electrical contact when anisotropic adhesive films are used, and also to strengthen the microfluidic architecture. In addition, a micromanipulator is needed to maintain tubes while using a thin PDMS layer to connect them to the access holes. Different PDMS layer thicknesses, ranging from 0.45-3 mm, are tested to compare the best adherence versus injection rates. Applied injection rates are varied from 50-300 &#956;l/hr for 0.45-3 mm PDMS layers, respectively. These techniques are mainly applicable for low-pressure applications. However, they can be extended for high-pressure ones through plasma-oxygen process to permanently seal the PDMS to glass substrates. The main advantage of this technique, besides the fact that it is reusable, consists of keeping the device observable when the microchannel length is very short (in the range of 3 mm or lower).

In this article we describe different techniques for microfluidic rapid prototyping platforms. The proposed techniques are based on ultraviolet (UV) sensitive and temperature curing epoxies, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based tubing, wire-bonding, and anisotropic adhesive films. The assembling procedures presented are developed for both one-time use devices as well as reusable microfluidic systems.

In this work, 3 different packaging and assembly techniques are presented. They can be classified into two categories: one-time use and reusable packaging ...

Using Tomoauto: A Protocol for High-throughput Automated Cryo-electron Tomography

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a powerful three-dimensional (3-D) imaging technique for visualizing macromolecular complexes in their native context at a molecular level. The technique involves initially preserving the sample in its native state by rapidly freezing the specimen in vitreous ice, then collecting a series of micrographs from different angles at high magnification, and finally computationally reconstructing a 3-D density map. The frozen-hydrated specimen is extremely sensitive to the electron beam and so micrographs are collected at very low electron doses to limit the radiation damage. As a result, the raw cryo-tomogram has a very low signal to noise ratio characterized by an intrinsically noisy image. To better visualize subjects of interest, conventional imaging analysis and sub-tomogram averaging in which sub-tomograms of the subject are extracted from the initial tomogram and aligned and averaged are utilized to improve both contrast and resolution. Large datasets of tilt-series are essential to understanding and resolving the complexes at different states, conditions, or mutations as well as obtaining a large enough collection of sub-tomograms for averaging and classification. Collecting and processing this data can be a major obstacle preventing further analysis. Here we describe a high-throughput cryo-ET protocol based on a computer-controlled 300kV cryo-electron microscope, a direct detection device (DDD) camera and a highly effective, semi-automated image-processing pipeline software wrapper library tomoauto developed in-house. This protocol has been effectively utilized to visualize the intact type III secretion system (T3SS) in Shigella flexneri minicells. It can be applicable to any project suitable for cryo-ET.

We present a protocol on how to utilize high-throughput cryo-electron tomography to determine high resolution in situ structures of molecular machines. The protocol permits large amounts of data to be processed, avoids common bottlenecks and reduces resource downtime, allowing the user to focus on important biological questions.

使用Tomoauto：一个协议，用于高通量自动化低温电子断层扫描

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a powerful three-dimensional (3-D) imaging technique for visualizing macromolecular complexes in their native ...

A Microfluidic Platform for High-throughput Single-cell Isolation and Culture

Studying the heterogeneity of single cells is crucial for many biological questions, but is technically difficult. Thus, there is a need for a simple, yet high-throughput, method to perform single-cell culture experiments. Here, we report a microfluidic chip-based strategy for high-efficiency single-cell isolation (~77%) and demonstrate its capability of performing long-term single-cell culture (up to 7 d) and cellular heterogeneity analysis using clonogenic assay. These applications were demonstrated with KT98 mouse neural stem cells, and A549 and MDA-MB-435 human cancer cells. High single-cell isolation efficiency and long-term culture capability are achieved by using different sizes of microwells on the top and bottom of the microfluidic channel. The small microwell array is designed for precisely isolating single-cells, and the large microwell array is used for single-cell clonal culture in the microfluidic chip. This microfluidic platform constitutes an attractive approach for single-cell culture applications, due to its flexibility of adjustable cell culture spaces for different culture strategies, without decreasing isolation efficiency.

Here, we present a protocol for isolating and culturing single cells with a microfluidic platform, which utilizes a new microwell design concept to allow for high-efficiency single cell isolation and long-term clonal culture.

高通量单细胞的分离和文化的微流体平台

Studying the heterogeneity of single cells is crucial for many biological questions, but is technically difficult. Thus, there is a need for a simple, yet ...

High-throughput Identification of Bacteria Repellent Polymers for Medical Devices

Medical devices are often associated with hospital-acquired infections, which place enormous strain on patients and the healthcare system as well as contributing to antimicrobial resistance. One possible avenue for the reduction of device-associated infections is the identification of bacteria-repellent polymer coatings for these devices, which would prevent bacterial binding at the initial attachment step. A method for the identification of such repellent polymers, based on the parallel screening of hundreds of polymers using a microarray, is described here. This high-throughput method resulted in the identification of a range of promising polymers that resisted binding of various clinically relevant bacterial species individually and also as multi-species communities. One polymer, PA13 (poly(methylmethacrylate-co-dimethylacrylamide)), demonstrated significant reduction in attachment of a number of hospital isolates when coated onto two commercially available central venous catheters. The method described could be applied to identify polymers for a wide range of applications in which modification of bacterial attachment is important.

A high-throughput microarray method for the identification of polymers which reduce bacterial surface binding on medical devices is described.

医疗器械细菌高通量鉴定驱蚊聚合物

Medical devices are often associated with hospital-acquired infections, which place enormous strain on patients and the healthcare system as well as ...

3D Microtissues for Injectable Regenerative Therapy and High-throughput Drug Screening

To upgrade traditional 2D cell culture to 3D cell culture, we have integrated microfabrication with cryogelation technology to produce macroporous microscale cryogels (microcryogels), which can be loaded with a variety of cell types to form 3D microtissues. Herein, we present the protocol to fabricate versatile 3D microtissues and their applications in regenerative therapy and drug screening. Size and shape-controllable microcryogels can be fabricated on an array chip, which can be harvested off-chip as individual cell-loaded carriers for injectable regenerative therapy or be further assembled on-chip into 3D microtissue arrays for high-throughput drug screening. Due to the high elastic nature of these microscale cryogels, the 3D microtissues exhibit great injectability for minimally invasive cell therapy by protecting cells from mechanical shear force during injection. This ensures enhanced cell survival and therapeutic effect in the mouse limb ischemia model. Meanwhile, assembly of 3D microtissue arrays in a standard 384-multi-well format facilitates the use of common laboratory facilities and equipment, enabling high-throughput drug screening on this versatile 3D cell culture platform.

This protocol describes the fabrication of elastic 3D macroporous microcryogels by integrating microfabrication with cryogelation technology. Upon loading with cells, 3D microtissues are generated, which can be readily injected in vivo to facilitate regenerative therapy or assembled into arrays for in vitro high-throughput drug screening.

3D Microtissues 用于可注射再生疗法和高通量药物筛选

To upgrade traditional 2D cell culture to 3D cell culture, we have integrated microfabrication with cryogelation technology to produce macroporous ...

An Ultrahigh-throughput Microfluidic Platform for Single-cell Genome Sequencing

Sequencing technologies have undergone a paradigm shift from bulk to single-cell resolution in response to an evolving understanding of the role of cellular heterogeneity in biological systems. However, single-cell sequencing of large populations has been hampered by limitations in processing genomes for sequencing. In this paper, we describe a method for single-cell genome sequencing (SiC-seq) which uses droplet microfluidics to isolate, amplify, and barcode the genomes of single cells. Cell encapsulation in microgels allows the compartmentalized purification and tagmentation of DNA, while a microfluidic merger efficiently pairs each genome with a unique single-cell oligonucleotide barcode, allowing &gt;50,000 single cells to be sequenced per run. The sequencing data is demultiplexed by barcode, generating groups of reads originating from single cells. As a high-throughput and low-bias method of single-cell sequencing, SiC-seq will enable a broader range of genomic studies targeted at diverse cell populations.

Single-cell sequencing reveals genotypic heterogeneity in biological systems, but current technologies lack the throughput necessary for the deep profiling of community composition and function. Here, we describe a microfluidic workflow for sequencing &gt;50,000 single-cell genomes from diverse cell populations.

单细胞基因组测序的超高通量微流控平台

Sequencing technologies have undergone a paradigm shift from bulk to single-cell resolution in response to an evolving understanding of the role of ...