title: Optimization of printing buffer for protein microarrays based on aldehyde-modified glass slides.
abstract: It is of great importance to efficiently immobilize probes onto a substrate with good spot quality for fabrication of protein microarrays. Printing buffers play an essential role in the fabrication process for the microarrays. In this work, antigen (Ag)/antibody (Ab) microarrays were fabricated on 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) modified glass slides through glutaraldehyde (GA), a bis-aldehyde homobifunctional cross-linker. Different types of buffers such as triton X-100 and glycerol and their effects on the protein immobilization were investigated for improving the quality of microspots and the immobilization efficiency on the aldehyde-activated APTES silanized slides. In addition, the performance of the optimized printing buffer was characterized with fabricated Ag/Ab microarrays. The results indicated that the optimized printing buffer, 0.01 M PBS with additional 0.003% triton X-100 and 10% glycerol could effectively eliminate non-homogeneous morphology of the microspots and significantly improve the signal intensities. The results provide an improved approach to construct high performance Ag/Ab microarrays.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Center for Advanced Bionanosystems Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
authors.forename: Yingshuai
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chang Ming
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000737:chemistry*; D002021:Buffers; D007118:Immunoassay; D040081:Protein Array Analysis
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D002021:Buffers