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Electrical lysis and RNA extraction from single cells fixed by dithiobis (succinimidyl propionate)

مؤلف البحث
Sangamithirai Subramanian Parimalam,
Yusuke Oguchi,
Mahmoud N. Abdelmoez,
Arata Tsuchida,
Yuka Ozaki,
Ryuji Yokokawa,
Ryuji Yokokawa,
Hidetoshi Kotera, and
Hirofumi Shintaku
المشارك في البحث
سنة البحث
2018
مجلة البحث
Analytical Chemistry
الناشر
American Chemical Society
عدد البحث
Vol: 90. Issue:21
تصنيف البحث
1
صفحات البحث
12512-12518
موقع البحث
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02338
ملخص البحث

We present a microfluidic method for electrical lysis and RNA extraction from single fixed cells leveraging reversible cross-linker dithiobis(succinimidyl propionate) (DSP). Our microfluidic system captures a single DSP-fixed cell at a hydrodynamic trap, reverse-cross-links the DSP molecules on a chip with dithiothreitol, lyses the plasma membrane via electrical field, and extracts cytoplasmic RNA with isotachophoresis-aided nucleic acids extraction. All of the on-chip processes complete in less than 5 min. We demonstrated the method using K562 leukemia cells and benchmarked the performance of RNA extraction with reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction. We also demonstrated the integration of our method with single-cell RNA sequencing.