Polymerizations of Nε‐trifluoroacetyl‐L ‐lysine N‐carboxyanhydride initiated by hexylamine were performed in N,N‐dimethylformamide with different monomer to initiator ratios and at different temperatures. Poly(Nε‐trifluoroacetyl‐L ‐lysine) samples were characterized by size exclusion chromatography coupled with multi‐angle laser light detection (SEC‐MALLS) and capillary electrophoresis (CE). If SEC‐MALLS analysis emphasizes the double distribution in molecular weight, nonaqueous CE (NACE) brings additional quantitative information on the oligomeric distribution and on the distribution according to polymer functionality (end‐groups). At room temperature, two termination reactions were clearly identified for these polymerizations. The suppression of these side reactions is reported upon decreasing the reaction temperature to 0 °C. A strong reduction of the bimodal aspect of the molecular weight distribution was obtained with the addition of urea to the polymerization medium. The possibility of a living and controlled polymerization at 0 °C with urea was demonstrated and illustrated by the synthesis of two block copolypeptides.
Improvements in the fabrication, sample handling and electrical addressing of capillary array electrophoresis (CAE) chips have permitted the development of high density, high-throughput devices capable of analyzing 48 samples in about 20 minutes. The fabrication of high density capillary arrays on 10 cm diameter substrates required the characterization of glasses that yield high quality etches and the development of improved sacrificial etch masks. Using these improved fabrication techniques, high-quality, deep channel etches are routinely obtained. Methods for bonding large area substrates and for drilling arrays of 100 or more access holes have also been developed. For easier sample introduction, we use an array of sample wells fabricated from an elastomeric sheet. The practicality of these technologies is demonstrated through the analysis of 12 DNA samples in parallel on a microfabricated CAE chip, the development of methods for injecting multiple samples onto a single capillary without cross contamination, and the operation of a microfabricated array of 12 capillaries with 4 sample injections per capillary that can analyze 48 samples. 相似文献
An immunofluorescence capillary electrophoresis technique is described for the detection of chloramphenicol where the analyte was allowed to compete with a chloramphenicolfluorescein conjugate for binding to polyclonal anti‐chloramphenicol antibody. The bound and unbound forms of the chloramphenicol‐fluorescein conjugate were then analyzed by capillary zone electrophoresis with laser‐induced fluorescence detection, which permitted direct quantitation of the extent of immunocomplex formation. The amount of unbound conjugate in the reaction mixture was proportional to the quantity of chloramphenicol in the sample. Using this assay, it was possible to detect concentrations as low as 0.1–0.5 ng ml‐1 of chloramphenicol in a standard buffer and at least 01 ng ml‐1 of chloramphenicol in milk after extraction with ethyl acetate using a simple protocol. This highly sensitive procedure was rapid, requiring less than 30min to complete. The immunofluorescence capillary electrophoresis system should be similarly applicable to the assay of a wide variety of analytes. 相似文献
The generation of the draft human genome sequence has created new possibilities for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of human disease. One consequence of these new possibilities is an increasing need for methods and technology that can be used for high-throughput screening for mutations in large DNA sample materials. In recent years, a number of mutation screening methods have emerged that are based on the analysis of sequence-dependent changes in the conformation of single- and double-stranded DNA using capillary electrophoresis. Common features of these methods are high sensitivity and reproducibility as well as the possibility for automation and massive parallelization. Thus, at present they are among the most attractive technologies for high-throughput mutation screening. This review describes the recent advances in capillary electrophoresis-based single strand conformation polymorphism (CE-SSCP) for detection of unknown mutations, and assesses its practical usability for high-throughput mutation screening based on the available literature. In addition, future prospects are outlined in light of the recent advances in microchip-based capillary electrophoresis. 相似文献
This paper presents a novel microfluidic capillary electrophoresis (CE) device featuring a double-T-form injection system
and an expansion chamber located at the inlet of the separation channel. This study addresses the principal material transport
mechanisms depending on parameters such as the expansion ratio, the expansion length, the fluid flow. Its design utilizes
a double-L injection technique and combines the expansion chamber to minimize the sample leakage effect and to deliver a high-quality
sample plug into the separation channel so that the detection performance of the device is enhanced. Experimental and numerical
testing of the proposed microfluidic device that integrates an expansion chamber located at the inlet of the separation channel
confirms its ability to increase the separation efficiency by improving the sample plug shape and orientation. The novel microfluidic
capillary electrophoresis device presented in this paper has demonstrated a sound potential for future use in high-quality,
high-throughput chemical analysis applications and throughout the micro-total-analysis systems field. 相似文献
We have developed a sequence-specific internal DNA size standard for the accurate determination of the number of CAG repeats in the Huntington disease (HD) gene by cloning key fragments (between 15 and 64 CAG repeats) of the HD gene. These fragments, pooled to produce a sequence-specific DNA ladder, enabled us to observe the true number of CAG repeats directly, with no need for calculations. Comparison of the calculated numbers of CAG repeats in the HD gene using this sequence-specific DNA standard with a commercially available standard (GENESCAN-500 TAMRA) showed that the latter underestimated the number of CAG repeats by three when analyzed by capillary electrophoresis on the ABI 310 Genetic Analyzer (POP4 polymer). In contrast, the use of the same standard overestimated the number of CAG repeats by one when the samples were analyzed by denaturing polyacrylamide electrophoresis on ABI 377 DNA Sequencer (6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel). This suggests that our sequence-specific standard provides greater accuracy for the determination of the true number of CAG repeats in the HD gene than commercially available standards. The sequence-specific standard can be radioactively labeled and successfully replace conventional DNA size standards when analyzing polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified HD alleles by denaturing polyacrylamide electrophoresis. 相似文献