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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2016

A Low-Noise Transimpedance Amplifier for BLM-Based Ion Channel Recording.

Marco Crescentini, Marco Bennati, Shimul Chandra Saha, Josip Ivica, Maurits de Planque, Hywel Morgan, Marco Tartagni

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Marco CrescentiniDepartment of Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering G. Marconi, University of Bologna, Cesena Campus, Via Venezia 52, IT-47521 Cesena, Italy. marco.crescentini3@unibo.it.
Marco BennatiCenter for Industrial Research (CIRI-ICT), University of Bologna, Via Venezia 52, IT-47521 Cesena, Italy. marco.bennati@unibo.it.
Shimul Chandra SahaDepartment of Electronic and Computer Science & Institute for Life Science, University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ Southampton, UK. shimul.saha@mediwise.co.uk.
Josip IvicaDepartment of Electronic and Computer Science & Institute for Life Science, University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ Southampton, UK. josip.ivica87@gmail.com.
Maurits de PlanqueDepartment of Electronic and Computer Science & Institute for Life Science, University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ Southampton, UK. mdp@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Hywel MorganDepartment of Electronic and Computer Science & Institute for Life Science, University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ Southampton, UK. hm@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Marco TartagniDepartment of Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering G. Marconi, University of Bologna, Cesena Campus, Via Venezia 52, IT-47521 Cesena, Italy. marco.tartagni@unibo.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput screening (HTS) using ion channel recording is a powerful drug discovery technique in pharmacology. Ion channel recording with planar bilayer lipid membranes (BLM) is scalable and has very high sensitivity. A HTS system based on BLM ion channel recording faces three main challenges: (i) design of scalable microfluidic devices; (ii) design of compact ultra-low-noise transimpedance amplifiers able to detect currents in the pA range with bandwidth >10 kHz; (iii) design of compact, robust and scalable systems that integrate these two elements. This paper presents a low-noise transimpedance amplifier with integrated A/D conversion realized in CMOS 0.35 μm technology. The CMOS amplifier acquires currents in the range ±200 pA and ±20 nA, with 100 kHz bandwidth while dissipating 41 mW. An integrated digital offset compensation loop balances any voltage offsets from Ag/AgCl electrodes. The measured open-input input-referred noise current is as low as 4 fA/√Hz at ±200 pA range. The current amplifier is embedded in an integrated platform, together with a microfluidic device, for current recording from ion channels. Gramicidin-A, α-haemolysin and KcsA potassium channels have been used to prove both the platform and the current-to-digital converter.

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Biosensing TechniquesDrug DiscoveryHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansIon ChannelsLab-On-A-Chip DevicesLipid BilayersIon ChannelsLipid Bilayersbilayer lipid membranescurrent sensing circuitelectrophysiologyion channel recordinglow-noise amplifierlow-noise current sensornoisetransimpedance amplifier

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PMID27213382
PMCPMC4883400

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