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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2021

Permeation Studies across Symmetric and Asymmetric Membranes in Microdroplet Arrays.

Simon Bachler, Marion Ort, Stefanie D Krämer, Petra S Dittrich

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Simon BachlerDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Marion OrtDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Stefanie D KrämerInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0426-4340
Petra S DittrichDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5359-8403

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the permeation of molecules across lipid membranes on an open microfluidic platform. An array of droplet pairs was created by spotting aqueous droplets, dispersed in a lipid oil solution, onto a plate with cavities surrounded by a hydrophobic substrate. Droplets in two adjacent cavities come in contact and form an artificial lipid bilayer, called a droplet interface bilayer (DIB). The method allows for monitoring permeation of fluorescently tagged compounds from a donor droplet to an acceptor droplet. A mathematical model was applied to describe the kinetics and determine the permeation coefficient. We also demonstrate that permeation kinetics can be followed over a series of droplets, all connected via DIBs. Moreover, by changing the lipid oil composition after spotting donor droplets, we were able to create asymmetric membranes that we used to mimic the asymmetry of the cellular plasma membrane. Finally, we developed a protocol to separate and extract the droplets for label-free analysis of permeating compounds by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Our versatile platform has the potential to become a new tool for the screening of drug membrane permeability in the future.

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Lipid BilayersWaterCell MembraneHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsMembranesLipid BilayersWater

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PMID33721989
PMCPMC8014892

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