title: Dendrimeric coating of glass slides for sensitive DNA microarrays analysis.
abstract: Successful use and reliability of microarray technology is highly dependent on several factors, including surface chemistry parameters and accessibility of cDNA targets to the DNA probes fixed onto the surface. Here, we show that functionalisation of glass slides with homemade dendrimers allow production of more sensitive and reliable DNA microarrays. The dendrimers are nanometric structures of size-controlled diameter with aldehyde function at their periphery. Covalent attachment of these spherical reactive chemical structures on amino-silanised glass slides generates a reactive approximately 100 A layer onto which amino-modified DNA probes are covalently bound. This new grafting chemistry leads to the formation of uniform and homogenous spots. More over, probe concentration before spotting could be reduced from 0.2 to 0.02 mg/ml with PCR products and from 20 to 5 micro M with 70mer oligonucleotides without affecting signal intensities after hybridisation with Cy3- and Cy5-labelled targets. More interestingly, while the binding capacity of captured probes on dendrimer-activated glass surface (named dendrislides) is roughly similar to other functionalised glass slides from commercial sources, detection sensitivity was 2-fold higher than with other available DNA microarrays. This detection limit was estimated to 0.1 pM of cDNA targets. Altogether, these features make dendrimer-activated slides ideal for manufacturing cost-effective DNA arrays applicable for gene expression and detection of mutations.
authors.affiliation: Transcriptome-Biochips Platform of Genopole Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre de Bioingénierie Gilbert Durand UMR-CNRS 5504, UMR-INRA 792, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, F-31077 Toulouse cedex 04, France.
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Le Berre
authors.forename: Emmanuelle
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Trévisiol
authors.forename: Adilia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dagkessamanskaia
authors.forename: Serguei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sokol
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Caminade
authors.forename: Jean Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Majoral
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meunier
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: François
mesh_terms: D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011437:Propylamines; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012821:Silanes / Q000737:chemistry; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D011108:Polymers; D011437:Propylamines; D012821:Silanes; D010758:Phosphorus; C477625:amino-propyl-triethoxysilane