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.
Research Member
Research Year
2018
Research Journal
Analytical Chemistry
Research Publisher
American Chemical Society
Research Vol
Vol: 90. Issue:21
Research Rank
1
Research_Pages
12512-12518
Research Website
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02338
Research Abstract