Microfluidic conductimetric bioreactor.
A microfluidic conductimetric bioreactor has been developed. Enzyme was immobilized in the microfluidic channel on poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface via covalent binding method. The detection unit consisted of two gold electrodes and a laboratory-built conductimetric transducer to monitor the increase in the conductivity of the solution due to the change of the charges generated by the enzyme-substrate catalytic reaction. Urea-urease was used as a representative analyte-enzyme system. Under optimum conditions urea could be determined with a detection limit of 0.09 mM and linearity in the range of 0.1-10 mM (r=0.9944). The immobilized urease on the microchannel chip provided good stability (>30 days of operation time) and good repeatability with an R.S.D. lower than 2.3%. Good agreement was obtained when urea concentrations of human serum samples determined by the microfluidic flow injection conductimetric bioreactor system were compared to those obtained using the Berthelot reaction (P<0.05). After prolong use the immobilized enzyme could be removed from the PDMS microchannel chip enabling new active enzyme to be immobilized and the chip to be reused.
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Warakorn
W
Biophysics Research Unit of Biosensors and Biocurrents, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
Loyprasert
Suchera
S
Thammakhet
Chongdee
C
Thavarungkul
Panote
P
Tuantranont
Adisorn
A
Asawatreratanakul
Punnee
P
Limsakul
Chusak
C
Wongkittisuksa
Booncharoen
B
Kanatharana
Proespichaya
P
D019149:Bioreactors; D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014508:Urea / Q000097:blood*; D014510:Urease / Q000737:chemistry*
D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized; D014508:Urea; D014510:Urease