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ArticleElectrophoresis2018

A microfluidic chip with a staircase pH gradient generator, a packed column and a fraction collector for chromatofocusing of proteins.

Hoon Suk Rho, Alexander Thomas Hanke, Marcel Ottens, Han J G E Gardeniers

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Article in Electrophoresis, 2018. 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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Hoon Suk RhoMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5345-3965
Alexander Thomas HankeBioProcess Engineering group, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Marcel OttensBioProcess Engineering group, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Han J G E GardeniersMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0581-2668

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A microfluidic device for pH gradient chromatofocusing is presented, which performs creation of a micro-column, pH gradient generation, and fraction collection in a single device. Using a sieve micro-valve, anion exchange particles were packed into a microchannel in order to realize a solid-phase absorption column. To fractionate proteins according to their isoelectric points, elution buffer solutions with a stepwise pH gradient were prepared in 16 parallel mixing reactors and flowed through the micro-column, wherein a protein mixture was previously loaded. The volume of the column is only 20 nL, hence it allows extremely low sample consumption and fast analysis compared with a conventional system. We demonstrated separation of two proteins, albumin-fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugate (FITC-BSA) and R-Phycoerythrin (R-PE), by using a microcolumn of commercial charged polymeric particles (Source 15Q). The microfluidic device can be used as a rapid diagnostic tool to analyse crude mixtures of proteins or nucleic acids and determine adsorption/desorption characteristics of various biochemical products, which can be helpful for scientific fundamental understanding as well as instrumental in various industrial applications, especially in early stage screening and process development.

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ChromatographyHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIsoelectric PointMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesPhycoerythrinProteinsSerum Albumin, BovinePhycoerythrinProteinsSerum Albumin, BovineMicrofluidicspH gradient chromatofocusingProtein separation

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PMID29345313
PMCPMC5947739

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