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KMID : 1145520220080020095
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Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
2022 Volume.8 No. 2 p.95 ~ p.101
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Development of Microfluidic Radioimmunoassay Platform for High-throughput Analysis with Reduced Radioactive Waste
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Kim Jin-Hee
Lee So-Young
Lee Seung-Kon
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Abstract
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Microfluidic radioimmunoassay (RIA) platform called μ-RIA spends less reagent and shorter reaction time for the analysis compared to the conventional tube-based radioimmunoassay. This study reported the design of μ-RIA chips optimized for the gamma counter which could measure the small samples of radioactive materials automatically. Compared with the previous study, the μ-RIA chips developed in this study were designed to be compatible with conventional RIA test tubes. And, the automatic gamma counter could detect radioactivity from the 125I labeled anti-PSA attached to the chips. Effects of the multi-layer microchannels and two-phase flow in the μ-RIA chips were investigated in this study. The measured radioactivity from the 125I labeled anti-PSA was linearly proportional to the number of stacked chips, representing that the radioactivity in μ-RIA platform could be amplified by designing the chips with multi-layers. In addition, we designed μ-RIA chip to generate liquid-gas plug flow inside the microfluidic channel. The plug flow can promote binding of the biomolecules onto the microfluidic channel surface with recirculation in the liquid phase. The ratio of liquid slug and air slug length was 1 : 1 when the 125I labeled anti-PSA and the air were injected at 1 and 35 μL/min, respectively, exhibiting 1.6 times higher biomolecule attachment compared to the microfluidic chip without the air injection. This experimental result indicated that the biomolecular reaction was improved by generating liquid-gas slugs inside the microfluidic channel. In this study, we presented a novel μ-RIA chips that is compatible with the conventional gamma counter with automated sampler. Therefore, high-throughput radioimmunoassay can be carried out by the automatic measurement of radioactivity with reduced radiowaste generation. We expect the μ-RIA platform can successfully replace conventional tube-based radioimmunoassay in the future.
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KEYWORD
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Microfluidics, Radioimmunoassay, Microfluidic immunoassay, Micro-RIA, Gamma counter
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