Low-volume multiplexed proteolytic activity assay and inhibitor analysis through a pico-injector array
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Ng, Ee Xien; Jing, Tengyang; Chen, Chia-Hung; Miller, Miles Aaron; Lauffenburger, Douglas A
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Secreted active proteases, from families of enzymes such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinases), participate in diverse pathological processes. To simultaneously measure multiple specific protease activities, a series of parallel enzyme reactions combined with a series of inhibitor analyses for proteolytic activity matrix analysis (PrAMA) are essential but limited due to the sample quantity requirements and the complexity of performing multiple reactions. To address these issues, we developed a pico-injector array to generate 72 different reactions in picoliter-volume droplets by controlling the sequence of combinational injections, which allowed simultaneous recording of a wide range of multiple enzyme reactions and measurement of inhibitor effects using small sample volumes (~10 μL). Multiple MMP activities were simultaneously determined by 9 different substrates and 2 inhibitors using injections from a pico-injector array. Due to the advantages of inhibitor analysis, the MMP/ADAM activities of MDA-MB-231, a breast cancer cell line, were characterized with high MMP-2, MMP-3 and ADAM-10 activity. This platform could be customized for a wide range of applications that also require multiple reactions with inhibitor analysis to enhance the sensitivity by encapsulating different chemical sensors. This journal is
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2014-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of BiologyJournal
Lab on a Chip
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Ng, Ee Xien, et al. “Low-Volume Multiplexed Proteolytic Activity Assay and Inhibitor Analysis through a Pico-Injector Array.” Lab on a Chip, vol. 15, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1153–59. © 2015 The Royal Society of Chemistry
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1473-0197
1473-0189