Tzu-Chiao Chao, Nicole Hansmeier
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Proteomics 2013 FebOver the last decades, microfabricated bioanalytical platforms have gained enormous interest due to their potential to revolutionize biological analytics. Their popularity is based on several key properties, such as high flexibility of design, low sample consumption, rapid analysis time, and minimization of manual handling steps, which are of interest for proteomics analyses. An ideal totally integrated chip-based microfluidic device could allow rapid automated workflows starting from cell cultivation and ending with MS-based proteome analysis. By reducing or eliminating sample handling and transfer steps and increasing the throughput of analyses these workflows would dramatically improve the reliability, reproducibility, and throughput of proteomic investigations. While these complete devices do not exist for routine use yet, many improvements have been made in the translation of proteomic sample handling and separation steps into microfluidic formats. In this review, we will focus on recent developments and strategies to enable and integrate proteomic workflows into microfluidic devices. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Tzu-Chiao Chao, Nicole Hansmeier. Microfluidic devices for high-throughput proteome analyses. Proteomics. 2013 Feb;13(3-4):467-79
PMID: 23135952
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