Zeolite nanoparticle modified microchip reactor for efficient protein digestion

Lab Chip. 2006 Apr;6(4):534-9. doi: 10.1039/b517590a. Epub 2006 Feb 28.

Abstract

An enzymatic microreactor has been fabricated based on the poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) microchchip surface-modified with zeolite nanoparticles. By introducing the silanol functional groups, the surface of PMMA microchannel has been successfully modified with silicalite-1 nanoparticle for the first time due to its large external surface area and high dispersibility in solutions. Trypsin can be stably immobilized in the microchannel to form a bioreactor using silica sol-gel matrix. The immobilization of enzyme can be realized with a stable gel network through a silicon-oxygen-silicon bridge via tethering to those silanol groups, which has been investigated by scanning electron microscopy and microchip capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection. The maximum proteolytic rate constant of the immobilized trypsin is measured to be about 6.6 mM s(-1). Using matrix assisted laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, the proposed microreactor provides an efficient digestion of cytochrome c and bovine serum albumin at a fast flow rate of 4.0 microL min(-1), which affords a very short reaction time of less than 5 s.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Cytochromes c / analysis
  • Cytochromes c / chemistry
  • Electrophoresis, Microchip
  • Enzymes, Immobilized / chemistry
  • Kinetics
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Polymethyl Methacrylate / chemistry
  • Protein Array Analysis / methods*
  • Proteins / analysis
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine / analysis
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine / chemistry
  • Silanes / chemistry
  • Silicates / chemistry
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Trypsin / chemistry
  • Zeolites / chemistry*

Substances

  • Enzymes, Immobilized
  • Proteins
  • Silanes
  • Silicates
  • silanol
  • Zeolites
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine
  • Cytochromes c
  • Polymethyl Methacrylate
  • Trypsin