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ArticleACS omega2021

Digital Microfluidics Chips for the Execution and Real-Time Monitoring of Multiple Ribozymatic Cleavage Reactions.

Alen N Davis, Kenza Samlali, Jay B Kapadia, Jonathan Perreault, Steve C C Shih, Nawwaf Kharma

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Article in ACS omega, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alen N DavisDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6025-4526
Kenza SamlaliDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.
Jay B KapadiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.
Jonathan PerreaultCentre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada.
Steve C C ShihDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3540-0808
Nawwaf KharmaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design and performance of two digital microfluidics (DMF) chips capable of executing multiple ribozymatic reactions, with proper controls, in response to short single-stranded DNA inducers. Since the fluorescence output of a reaction is measurable directly from the chip, without the need for gel electrophoresis, a complete experiment involving up to eight reactions (per chip) can be carried out reliably, relatively quickly, and efficiently. The ribozymes can also be used as biosensors of the concentration of oligonucleotide inputs, with high sensitivity, low limits of quantification and of detection, and excellent signal-to-noise ratio. The presented chips are readily usable devices that can be used to automate, speed up, and reduce the costs of ribozymatic reaction experiments.

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PMID34514224
PMCPMC8427639

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