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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2011

Enhancing protease activity assay in droplet-based microfluidics using a biomolecule concentrator.

Chia-Hung Chen, Aniruddh Sarkar, Yong-Ak Song, Miles A Miller, Sung Jae Kim, Linda G Griffith, Douglas A Lauffenburger, Jongyoon Han

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Droplet microfluidics for high-sensitivity and high-throughput detection and screening of disease biomarkers.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology · 2018
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  8. Functional profiling of circulating tumor cells with an integrated vortex capture and single-cell protease activity assay.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Chia-Hung ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 36-841, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Aniruddh Sarkar
Yong-Ak Song
Miles A Miller
Sung Jae Kim
Linda G Griffith
Douglas A Lauffenburger
Jongyoon Han

Funding

Systems Biology of Cell Decision ProcessesP50GM068762 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2003 to 2012
$32.3M
Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
Perfused 3D Tissue Surrogates for Complex Cell-Cell Communication SystemsR01EB010246 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRIFFITH, LINDA G · 2009 to 2013
$3.3M
Computational Modeling of Cell Migration in 3D MatricesR01GM081336 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2008 to 2011
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54-CA112967NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB010246NIBIB NIH HHS R01-EB010246NIGMS NIH HHS GM68762NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068762NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081336NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM081336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce an integrated microfluidic device consisting of a biomolecule concentrator and a microdroplet generator, which enhances the limited sensitivity of low-abundance enzyme assays by concentrating biomolecules before encapsulating them into droplet microreactors. We used this platform to detect ultralow levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) from diluted cellular supernatant and showed that it significantly (~10-fold) reduced the time required to complete the assay and the sample volume used.

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedFibroblastsMatrix MetalloproteinasesMiceMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicrofluidicsSensitivity and SpecificityMatrix Metalloproteinases

Identifiers

PMID21671557
PMCPMC3165005

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