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Title: Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology

Abstract

High-throughput screening technologies are widely used for elucidating biological activities. These typically require trade-offs in assay specificity and sensitivity to achieve higher throughput. Microfluidic approaches enable rapid manipulation of small volumes and have found a wide range of applications in biotechnology providing improved control of reaction conditions, faster assays, and reduced reagent consumption. The integration of mass spectrometry with microfluidics has the potential to create high-throughput, sensitivity, and specificity assays. This review introduces the widely-used mass spectrometry ionization techniques that have been successfully integrated with microfluidics approaches such as continuous-flow system, microchip electrophoresis, droplet microfluidics, digital microfluidics, centrifugal microfluidics, and paper microfluidics. In addition, we discuss recent applications of microfluidics integrated with mass spectrometry in single-cell analysis, compound screening, and the study of microorganisms. Lastly, we provide future outlooks towards online coupling, improving the sensitivity and integration of multi-omics into a single platform.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1];  [4]
  1. Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, US Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA
  2. Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  3. Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
  4. Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, US Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1809121
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1826724
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
RSC Chemical Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: RSC Chemical Biology Journal Volume: 2 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2633-0679
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Ha, Noel S., de Raad, Markus, Han, La Zhen, Golini, Amber, Petzold, Christopher J., and Northen, Trent R. Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1039/D1CB00112D.
Ha, Noel S., de Raad, Markus, Han, La Zhen, Golini, Amber, Petzold, Christopher J., & Northen, Trent R. Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CB00112D
Ha, Noel S., de Raad, Markus, Han, La Zhen, Golini, Amber, Petzold, Christopher J., and Northen, Trent R. Thu . "Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CB00112D.
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title = {Faster, better, and cheaper: harnessing microfluidics and mass spectrometry for biotechnology},
author = {Ha, Noel S. and de Raad, Markus and Han, La Zhen and Golini, Amber and Petzold, Christopher J. and Northen, Trent R.},
abstractNote = {High-throughput screening technologies are widely used for elucidating biological activities. These typically require trade-offs in assay specificity and sensitivity to achieve higher throughput. Microfluidic approaches enable rapid manipulation of small volumes and have found a wide range of applications in biotechnology providing improved control of reaction conditions, faster assays, and reduced reagent consumption. The integration of mass spectrometry with microfluidics has the potential to create high-throughput, sensitivity, and specificity assays. This review introduces the widely-used mass spectrometry ionization techniques that have been successfully integrated with microfluidics approaches such as continuous-flow system, microchip electrophoresis, droplet microfluidics, digital microfluidics, centrifugal microfluidics, and paper microfluidics. In addition, we discuss recent applications of microfluidics integrated with mass spectrometry in single-cell analysis, compound screening, and the study of microorganisms. Lastly, we provide future outlooks towards online coupling, improving the sensitivity and integration of multi-omics into a single platform.},
doi = {10.1039/D1CB00112D},
journal = {RSC Chemical Biology},
number = 5,
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place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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