SOLID-PHASE SURFACE AND SOLUTION MOTION MODE AND MOTION DEVICE
20210341472 · 2021-11-04
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G01N2201/0846
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides modes of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution, and the related motion apparatuses. In an interaction between the solid surface and a target object, the target object is dissolved or dispersed in the solution, and the solid surface and the solution make a relative motion, with the relative motion including a relative movement perpendicular to the solid surface, in order to improve at least one of the following: binding rate, dissociation rate, binding uniformity, binding directionality and binding density of the target object to the solid surface. Compared with the traditional modes of relative motion in which the relative motion is parallel to a sensor surface, the modes of relative motion of the present disclosure can effectively improve the binding efficiency and dissociation efficiency between a ligand and an analyte given the same relative motion velocity between the sensor and the solution.
Claims
1. A mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution, wherein in an interaction between the solid surface and a target object, the target object is dissolved or dispersed in the solution, and the solid surface and the solution make a relative motion, with the relative motion including a relative movement perpendicular to the solid surface, in order to improve at least one of the following: binding rate, dissociation rate, binding uniformity, binding directionality and binding density of the target object to the solid surface.
2. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein in binding and dissociation processes between the solid surface and the target object, the relative motion between the solid surface and the solution includes a unidirectional opposite movement perpendicular to the solid surface, in order to improve at least one of the following: binding rate, dissociation rate, binding uniformity, binding directionality, and binding density of the target object to the solid surface.
3. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein in binding and dissociation processes between the solid surface and the target object, the relative motion between the solid surface and the solution includes reciprocating forward and backward movements perpendicular to the solid surface, in order to improve at least one of the following: binding rate, dissociation rate, binding uniformity, binding directionality, and binding density of the target object to the solid surface.
4. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein the relative motion includes a combination of a relative movement perpendicular to the solid surface and a relative movement parallel to the solid surface.
5. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 4, wherein the relative movement perpendicular to the solid surface and the relative movement parallel to the solid surface are simultaneously made.
6. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 4, wherein the relative movement parallel to the solid surface includes one of the following: a unidirectional movement, a bidirectional reciprocating movement and a rotating movement.
7. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein the relative motion between the solid surface and the solution includes one of following: only the solid surface moves, only the solution moves and both the solid surface and the solution move.
8. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein a velocity of the perpendicular relative movement between the solid surface and the solution is not less than 1/10 of the Brownian motion velocity of the target object in the solution, in order to increase the probability of collision between the solid surface and the target object.
9. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 8, wherein the target object includes analytes in the form of large particles, which are selected from but are not limited to a group consisting of metallic particles, exosome particles, cells, quantum dots and dielectric particles, and a combination thereof.
10. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 1, wherein, for a biomolecular interaction experiment, the solid surface comprises a sensor surface with ligands immobilized thereon, and the target object comprises analytes which are dissolved or dispersed in the solution; a binding and a dissociation between the target object and the solid surface refer to a binding and a dissociation between the analytes and the ligands, respectively.
11. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 10, wherein the sensor comprises a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, wherein the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor.
12. A mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution, wherein in an interaction between the solid surface and a target object, the target object is dissolved or dispersed in the solution, and the solid surface and the solution make a relative motion, with the relative motion including a reciprocating movement parallel to the solid surface other than rotation around a center, in order to improve the binding and dissociation rates between the target object and the solid surface.
13. The mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution according to claim 12, wherein, for a biomolecular interaction experiment, the solid surface comprises a sensor surface with ligands immobilized thereon, and the target object comprises analytes which are dissolved or dispersed in the solution; a binding and a dissociation between the target object and the solid surface refer to a binding and a dissociation between the analytes and the ligands, respectively; the sensor comprises a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, wherein the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor.
14. A motion apparatus for a solid surface and a solution, comprising: a container, which holds a solution, with a target object dissolved or dispersed in the solution; a solid surface, which comprises a sensor surface with ligands immobilized thereon for measuring biomolecular interactions, the sensor being immersed in the solution; and a drive motor, which is connected to the container to make a reciprocating motion of the container, the reciprocating motion including a movement perpendicular to the sensor surface, in order to improve at least one of the following: binding rate, dissociation rate, binding uniformity, binding directionality, and binding density of the target object to the sensor surface.
15. The motion apparatus for a solid surface and a solution according to claim 14, wherein the reciprocating motion of the container driven by the drive motor further comprises a movement parallel to the sensor surface, so that the perpendicular and parallel movements of the container are simultaneously driven.
16. The motion apparatus for a solid surface and a solution according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the drive motor comprises a voice coil motor.
17. The motion apparatus for a solid surface and a solution according to claim 14, wherein the container comprises a microtitre plate or a centrifuge tube.
18. The motion apparatus for a solid surface and a solution according to claim 14, wherein the sensor comprises a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor.
19. The motion apparatus fora solid surface and a solution according to claim 15, wherein the drive motor comprises a voice coil motor.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS
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TABLE-US-00001 10 Light source 11 Directional coupler 12 Optical fiber 13 Sample solution 14 Sensor on optical fiber end-facet 15 Spectrometer 16 Analyte 21 Container 22 Drive motor
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0041] The embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present disclosure according to contents disclosed by the specification. The present disclosure may also be implemented or applied through other different specific implementation modes. Various modifications or changes may be made to all details in the specification based on different points of view and applications without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure.
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[0045] It should be noted that the relative motion between the solid surface and the solution includes one of following: only the solid surface moves, only the solution moves and both the solid surface and the solution move. The above-mentioned “only the solid surface moves” means that the solution does not move but the solid surface moves. The above-mentioned “only the solution moves” means that the solid surface does not move but the solution moves.
[0046] In this embodiment, for a biomolecular interaction sensing experiment, the solid surface includes a sensor surface with ligands immobilized thereon; the target object includes analytes which are dissolved or dispersed in the solution; and a binding and a dissociation between the target object and the solid surface refer to a binding and a dissociation between the analytes and the ligands, respectively. The sensor includes a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor. It should be noted that although this embodiment focuses on label-free biomolecular interaction experiments, the present disclosure has the same effect on labeled biomolecular interaction experiments. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited to the examples listed herein. It should be noted that the above-mentioned “approximately perpendicular” includes substantially perpendicular or deviating from perpendicular by a certain angular range. For example, the angular range of the deviation may be between −2° and +2°, but is not limited to the angular range listed here.
[0047] The target object includes analytes in the form of large particles, and the analytes in the form of large particles may include one or more of metallic particles, exosome particles, cells, quantum dots and dielectric particles. Further, the velocity of the perpendicular relative movement between the solid surface (such as ligands on a sensor surface) and the solution is no less than 1/10 of the Brownian motion velocity of the target object in the solution, so as to increase the probability of collision between the solid surface and the target object (such as the analytes). Furthermore, when the velocity of the perpendicular relative movement between the sensor and the sample solution reaches or exceeds the Brownian motion velocity of the analyte, such a motion mode will increase the probability of ligand-analyte collision even more significantly. For the measurement of analyte particles with large masses and low Brownian motion velocities, such as metallic particles, exosome particles, cells, quantum dots and dielectric particles, the present disclosure can remarkably increase the velocity of relative movement between the analyte and the ligand. Of course, during the practical application, different velocities of the perpendicular relative movement may be selected according to different target objects (for example, target objects with different particle sizes), and the present disclosure is not limited to the examples listed herein.
[0048] This embodiment further provides a second mode of relative motion between a solid surface and a solution. In an interaction between the solid surface and a target object, the target object is dissolved or dispersed in the solution, and the solid surface and the solution make a relative motion, with the relative motion including a reciprocating movement parallel to the solid surface which is different from rotation around a center, in order to improve the binding and dissociation rates between the target object and the solid surface. The above-mentioned “rotation around a center” refers to such a movement in which, if we connect two arbitrary points on the solid surface to form a line segment a, and connect two arbitrary points in the solution to form a line segment b, the angle between line segments a and b changes, instead of having line segments a and b move relatively to each other with a constant angle between them.
[0049] For a biomolecular interaction sensing experiment, the solid surface includes a sensor surface with ligands immobilized thereon, the target object includes analytes which are dissolved or dispersed in the solution, and a binding and a dissociation between the target object and the solid surface refer to a binding and a dissociation between the analytes and the ligands, respectively. The sensor includes a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor. In this embodiment, the sensor and sample solution conduct a reciprocating relative movement parallel to the sensor surface, which is different from rotation around a center. This mode of motion can also significantly improve the ligand-analyte binding efficiency compared to when there is no movement. In addition, the relative motion velocity under this motion mode does not vary with the spatial offset of the sensor from the center of the sample solution, so that the consistency between different testing results shall be improved compared with the rotating-around-a-center relative motion mode.
[0050] In an exemplary embodiment, a sensing apparatus is shown in
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[0055] 4) the microtitre plate and the optical fiber having the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor on the end-facet do not have a relative motion with respect to each other.
[0056] In this embodiment, two label-free biomolecular interaction experiments are used as examples to compare the experimental effects of the above motion modes. The experiments include 1) PPB-SA molecular interaction experiment; 2) BPA-hIgG molecular interaction experiment. Details are as follows:
[0057] 1) PPB-SA Molecular Interaction Experiment:
[0058] The buffer solution used in this experiment is 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (HEPES). The ligand on the sensor surface of the optical fiber end-facet SPR sensor is (poly-L-lysine)-(polyethylene glycol)-biotin (PPB) molecule. The sample solution (analyte solution) is streptavidin (SA) molecules in a HEPES solvent, with a concentration of 1 μg/mL.
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[0060] 2) BPA-hIgG Molecular Interaction Experiment:
[0061] The buffer solution used in this experiment is 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (HEPES). The ligand on the sensor surface of the optical fiber end-facet SPR sensor is biotinylated protein A (BPA) molecule. The sample solution (analyte solution) is human immunoglobulin G (hIgG) molecules in a HEPES solvent.
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[0064] In this embodiment, the reciprocating motion of the container 21 driven by the drive motor 22 further includes a movement parallel to the surface of the sensor 14. The drive motor 22 drives the container 21 to move in directions perpendicular to the surface of the sensor 14 and in directions parallel to the surface of the sensor 14 at the same time.
[0065] As an example, the drive motor includes a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor drives a motion in a certain mode by using the interaction force between the magnetic poles of permanent magnets and/or electric current coils. It can realize linear motions and pendulum motions with finite angles. Compared with traditional linear motors, the voice coil motors have better high-frequency responses for driving high-speed reciprocating motions.
[0066] As an example, the container includes a microtitre plate or a centrifuge tube.
[0067] As an example, the sensor includes a sensor at an optical fiber end-facet or a sensor at an optical cable end-facet, the end-facet is approximately perpendicular to a lightwave propagation direction in a part of optical fiber or optical cable adjacent to the sensor, and the choice of sensor at an optical fiber end-facet includes a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor and the choice of sensor at an optical cable end-facet includes a bio-layer interferometry sensor.
[0068] As described above, the modes of relative motion between a solid sensor surface and a sample solution and the related motion apparatuses of the present disclosure have the following beneficial effects:
[0069] 1) The present disclosure provides a mode of relative motion in which the relative motion between the sensor surface and the solution is perpendicular to the solid surface. Compared with the traditional modes of relative motion in which the relative motion is parallel to a sensor surface, the mode of relative motion of the present disclosure can effectively improve the binding efficiency and dissociation efficiency between a ligand and an analyte given the same relative motion velocity between the sensor and the sample solution.
[0070] 2) The perpendicular motion mode of the present disclosure will not cause significant nonuniformity of the flow rate of the sample solution, and it will effectively improve the binding uniformity, binding directionality and binding density of the analyte to the ligand.
[0071] 3) The present disclosure can effectively improve the detection sensitivity for biomolecular interactions, and therefore shows promises for a broad range of applications in biosensing.
[0072] 4) When the velocity of the perpendicular relative movement between the sensor and the sample solution is no less than 1/10 of the Brownian motion velocity of the analyte, such modes of relative motion will significantly increase the probability of ligand-analyte collision. For the measurement of analyte particles with large masses and low Brownian motion velocities, such as metallic particles, exosome particles, cells, quantum dots and dielectric particles, the present disclosure can remarkably increase the velocity of relative movement between the analyte and the ligand.
[0073] 5) In the present disclosure, the sensor and sample solution conduct a reciprocating relative movement parallel to the sensor surface, which is different from rotation around a center. This mode of motion can also significantly improve the ligand-analyte binding efficiency compared to when there is no movement. In addition, the relative motion velocity under this motion mode does not vary with the spatial offset of the sensor from the center of the sample solution, so that the consistency between different testing results shall be improved compared with the rotating-around-a-center relative motion mode.
[0074] Therefore, the present disclosure effectively overcomes various shortcomings in the traditional technology and has high industrial utilization value.
[0075] The above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles of the disclosure and its effects, and are not intended to limit the disclosure. Modifications or variations of the above-described embodiments may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Therefore, all equivalent modifications or changes made by those who have common knowledge in the art without departing from the spirit and technical concept disclosed by the present disclosure shall be still covered by the claims of the present disclosure.