Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.132, No.8, 2512-2512, 2010
Polyacrylamide Gel Photopatterning Enables Automated Protein Immunoblotting in a Two-Dimensional Microdevice
We demonstrate a two-dimensional microfluidic architecture that integrates polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) with immunoblotting in a fully automated format. This assay is designed to overcome performance limitations of conventional slab-gel immunoblotting, including multiple manual interventions, low-throughput transfer and blotting, and substantial consumption of reagents and sample. To Unify PAGE with blotting in one device, this microfluidic approach makes Use of high-resolution regional photopatterning of multiple polyacrylamide gel elements, and automated electrophoretic transport, A complete native immunoblot of free prostate specific antigen from human seminal fluid is demonstrated in less than 5 min. Further, the characterization of post-PAGE electrophoretic transfer showed high efficiency and minimal sample dispersion.