Departmental Papers (CBE)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
October 2008
Abstract
Miniaturizing bioassays to the nanoliter scale for high-throughput screening reduces the consumption of reagents that are expensive or difficult to handle. Through the use of acoustic dispensing technology, nanodroplets containing 10 μM ATP (3 μCi/μL 32P) and reaction buffer in 10% glycerol were positionally dispensed to the surface of glass slides to form 40-nL compartments (100 droplets/slide) for Pim1 (proviral integration site 1) kinase reactions. The reactions were activated by dispensing 4 nL of various levels of a pyridocarbazolo-cyclopentadienyl ruthenium complex Pim1 inhibitor, followed by dispensing 4 nL of a Pim1 kinase and peptide substrate solution to achieve final concentrations of 150 nM enzyme and 10 μM substrate. The microarray was incubated at 30 °C (97% Rh) for 1.5 h. The spots were then blotted to phosphocellulose membranes to capture phosphorylated substrate. With phosphor imaging to quantify the washed membranes, the assay showed that, for doses of inhibitor from 0.75 to 3 μM, Pim1 was increasingly inhibited. Signal-to-background ratios were as high as 165, and average coefficients of variation for the assay were not, vert, ∼20%. Coefficients of variation for dispensing typical working buffers were under 5%. Thus, microarrays assembled by acoustic dispensing are promising as cost-effective tools that can be used in protein assay development.
Keywords
kinase, acoustic dispense, microarray, screening assay, radioactive phosphorus, phosphor storage imaging, phosphocellulose paper
Recommended Citation
Wong, E. Y., & Diamond, S. L. (2008). Enzyme microarrays assembled by acoustic dispensing technology. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/cbe_papers/123
Date Posted: 27 October 2008
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Postprint version. Published in Analytical Biochemistry, Volume 381, Issue 1, October 2008, pages 101-106.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2008.06.024