Droplet Actuator Devices and Methods for Immunoassays and Washing
    65.
    发明申请
    Droplet Actuator Devices and Methods for Immunoassays and Washing 有权
    滴液致动器装置和免疫测定和洗涤方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090263834A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-22

    申请号:US12393534

    申请日:2009-02-26

    IPC分类号: G01N33/542

    CPC分类号: G01N33/54333

    摘要: Droplet actuator devices and methods for immunoassays and washing are provided. According to one embodiment, a method of providing a droplet in contact with a surface of a super paramagnetic bead with a reduced concentration of a substance is provided and includes: (a) providing a super paramagnetic bead in contact with a droplet comprising a starting concentration and starting quantity of the substance and having a starting volume; (b) conducting one or more droplet operations to merge a wash droplet with the droplet provided in step (a) to yield a combined droplet; and (c) conducting one or more droplet operations to divide the combined droplet to yield a set of droplets. The set of droplets includes: (i) a droplet in contact with the super paramagnetic bead having a decreased concentration of the substance relative to the starting concentration; and (ii) a droplet which is separated from the super paramagnetic bead.

    摘要翻译: 提供液滴致动器装置和免疫测定和洗涤方法。 根据一个实施方案,提供了一种提供与物质浓度降低的超顺磁珠的表面接触的液滴的方法,包括:(a)提供与包含起始浓度的液滴接触的超顺磁珠 并开始物质的起始体积; (b)进行一个或多个液滴操作以将洗涤液滴与步骤(a)中提供的液滴合并以产生组合液滴; 和(c)进行一个或多个液滴操作以分开组合液滴以产生一组液滴。 一组液滴包括:(i)与超顺磁珠接触的液滴,其物质相对于起始浓度降低; 和(ii)从超顺磁珠分离的液滴。

    Method of conducting a droplet based enzymatic assay
    70.
    发明授权
    Method of conducting a droplet based enzymatic assay 有权
    进行基于液滴的酶法测定的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08440392B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-14

    申请号:US12531844

    申请日:2008-03-23

    IPC分类号: C12Q1/00

    摘要: A method of conducting a droplet-based enzymatic assay is provided. The method generally makes use of a droplet actuator. A droplet comprising an enzyme of interest is provided on the droplet actuator along with a droplet comprising a substrate which is potentially modified in the presence of the enzyme. The method involves executing droplet operations on the droplet actuator to combine the droplets, thereby yielding an assay droplet, and detecting modification of the substrate by the enzyme in the assay droplet on the droplet actuator. The enzyme of interest may, for example, be a potentially mutated or improperly folded enzyme exhibiting altered enzyme activity as compared to a corresponding normal enzyme.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种进行基于液滴的酶测定的方法。 该方法通常使用液滴致动器。 包含感兴趣的酶的液滴与包含底物的液滴一起提供在液滴致动器上,所述液滴在酶的存在下可能被修饰。 该方法涉及对液滴致动器执行液滴操作以组合液滴,从而产生测定液滴,并且通过液滴致动器上的测定液滴中的酶检测底物的修饰。 感兴趣的酶可以是例如与相应的正常酶相比显示改变的酶活性的潜在突变或不正确折叠的酶。