An integrated microfluidic system using magnetic beads for virus detection
Introduction
The micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and micromachining techniques have enabled the miniaturization of biomedical and chemical analysis devices. The technologies of fluid-based microsystems have been realized since the advent of micro-total-analysis systems (Tay, 2002). Various fluidic operations in microfluidic systems such as sample preparation, sample injection, manipulation, filtration, reaction, separation, and detection have been successfully demonstrated. Efficient transportation of fluids in these microsystems is critical for miniaturized biomedical systems (Unger et al., 2000, Fu et al., 2002). For molecular diagnosis, the microfluidic system offers many advantages including smaller sample/reagent requirement (<50 μL), shorter time, lower cost, more precision, and the option of disposability (if dealing with infectious agents, this means improved safety). However, biological samples usually contain a mixture of bioactive substances that may interfere with the subsequent DNA/RNA amplification. The purification and enrichment of the extremely low concentration of biosample become crucial in many biomedical assays (Choi et al., 2001, Choi et al., 2002, Grodzinski et al., 2003). These pretreatment steps can increase the detection limit of the sensing system. For example, the nucleic acids are purified by silica gel binding under the chaotropic agent guanidinium thiocyanate for downstream application (Boom et al., 1990). We have miniaturized the reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) system for fast molecular diagnosis utilizing the MEMS technology (Liao et al., 2005a, Liao et al., 2005b). An automatic one-step μRT-PCR system that integrates the sample purification/enrichment devices using superparamagnetic beads into a single chip has also been reported (Lien et al., 2006a). The antibody-conjugated magnetic beads were used to capture the targeted virus. The virus was then subjected to thermolysis, RNA extraction, and RT-PCR on a single chip automatically. In this study, the integrated antibody-conjugated microfluidic system that performs purification, enrichment, and the subsequent RT-PCR was further investigated for RNA virus. The advantages over the traditional RNA extraction kit or manual magnetic bead process are compared and discussed.
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Dengue virus and enterovirus 71
All 4 dengue virus serotype strains (serotype 1/766733A, serotype 2/PL046, serotype 3/739079A, and serotype 4/H-241) were obtained from the Center for Disease Control (Taipei, Taiwan). Unless otherwise specified, the dengue virus serotype 2, strain PL046 was used for most experiments. Viruses were propagated in mosquito C6/36 cells in Eagle's minimal essential medium containing 2% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum at 28 °C for 5 days and quantified by standard plaque assay as previously
An integrated antibody-conjugated microfluidic system for RNA virus detection
We are interested in developing a chip-based RT-PCR system for the amplification of specific nucleic acids and the detection of RNA-based virus. Traditionally, viral samples are incubated with a commercial RNA kit to extract and concentrate the RNA by silica-gel membrane binding. This procedure is labor-intensive and is not amenable to automation. After extraction, the RNA template is loaded onto the reaction chamber of the chip to amplify the RT-PCR. This is therefore a 2-step process. When we
Discussion
To date, miniaturization of the sampling, pretreatment of sample, measurement, and interpretation has been applied to biomedical and chemical analysis devices and systems. Although the microfluidic system offers many advantages of small sample requirement (<50 μL), shorter time, low price, more precision, and disposal, comparing with the large-scale machine, the sample enrichment or purification in the pretreatment procedure is crucially important because of the complexity of composition,
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by grants NSC95-3112-B006-004 and NSC95-2221-E006-012-MY3 from the National Science Council, Taiwan.
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