Rotating Rod Renewable Microcolumns for Automated, Solid-Phase DNA Hybridization
- BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
- ASSOC WESTERN UNIVERSITY
- OFFICE OF FELLOWSHIP PROG
The development of a new temperature-controlled renewable microcolumn flow cell for solid-phase nucleic acid analysis in a sequential injection system is described. The flow cell includes a stepper motor-driven rotating rod with the working end cut to a 45 degree angle. In one position, the end of the rod prevents passage of microbeads while allowing fluid flow; rotation of the rod by 180 degrees release the beads. This system was used to rapidly test many hybridization and elution protocols to examine the temperature and solution conditions required for sequence specific nucleic acid hybridization. Target nucleic acids labeled with a near-infrared fluorescent dye were detected immediately post-column using a flow-through fluorescence detector, with a detection limit of 40 pM dye concentration at a flow rate of 5 mu l/s. Temperature control of the column and the presence of Triton X-100 surfactant were critical for specific hybridization. Perfusion of the column with complementary oligonucleotide (200 mu l, 10nM) resulted in hybridization with 8% of the DNA binding sites on the microbeads with a solution residence time of less than a second and a total sample perfusion time of 40 seconds. The use of the renewable column system for detection of an unlabeled PCR product in a sandwich assay was also demonstrated.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 15001361
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-32763; KJ0200000; TRN: US200404%%92
- Journal Information:
- Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 72, Issue 17; Other Information: PBD: 1 Dec 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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