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ArticleScientific reports2016

Multiplexed Affinity-Based Separation of Proteins and Cells Using Inertial Microfluidics.

Aniruddh Sarkar, Han Wei Hou, Alison E Mahan, Jongyoon Han, Galit Alter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. 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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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aniruddh SarkarRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Han Wei HouDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Alison E MahanRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Jongyoon HanDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Galit AlterRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Isolation of low abundance proteins or rare cells from complex mixtures, such as blood, is required for many diagnostic, therapeutic and research applications. Current affinity-based protein or cell separation methods use binary 'bind-elute' separations and are inefficient when applied to the isolation of multiple low-abundance proteins or cell types. We present a method for rapid and multiplexed, yet inexpensive, affinity-based isolation of both proteins and cells, using a size-coded mixture of multiple affinity-capture microbeads and an inertial microfluidic particle sorter device. In a single binding step, different targets-cells or proteins-bind to beads of different sizes, which are then sorted by flowing them through a spiral microfluidic channel. This technique performs continuous-flow, high throughput affinity-separation of milligram-scale protein samples or millions of cells in minutes after binding. We demonstrate the simultaneous isolation of multiple antibodies from serum and multiple cell types from peripheral blood mononuclear cells or whole blood. We use the technique to isolate low abundance antibodies specific to different HIV antigens and rare HIV-specific cells from blood obtained from HIV+ patients.

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Antibodies, ViralCell SeparationHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicrofluidicsAntibodies, Viral

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PMID27026280
PMCPMC4812309
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