Sam:LabNotes/Microbione/2009-2-12

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Test of Microwell Slide Washing and Microbeads Loading

Objective

  • Clean and sterilize the slides before beads loading.
  • Load the bead on slides and evaluting the slide quality, bead arrangement under microscope.


Reagents

  • 1N HCL (diluted from 12N to 1N)
  • Acetone
  • Ethanol (200-proof)
  • 1X PBS


Procedures

  • Prepare several cleaned tip-box caps by following wash: 100% EtOH rinse + di-H2O rinse, repeat once.
  • Fill up the wash reagents into the caps. Label the box accordingly.
  • Soak the slides in differnt reagents and gentle aggitation. Rinse the slide twice with diH2O in between. Time the soakig time and observe the change of slide.


Results

  • The slide can not resist to either Acetone or Ethonal soaking. The array piece peared off by itself after 30 sec-40 sec of soaking.
  • The slide can resist to 1N HCL soaking (> 1 min) without noticeable change of property.


Revised washing steps

  • 1N HCL, 1 min -> 1st di-H2O, 1 min ->, 2nd di-H2O -> 1X PBS, 1 min -> dry up in hume hood, 5 - 10 min.
    • The 1N KOH wasn't used neutrolize 1N HCL sicne the KOH residue may remian and interfere the downsteam applification such PCR reaction.



Microbead loading

Prodedures

  • Start from the diluted and immobilized bead (with FITC labeled probes). Concentration: 1 mg/200 uL.
    • The original bead info (Invitrogen): Dynabead M-280
    • 10 mg (6-7 x 10^8 beads) -> 1 mg = 6-7 x 10^7 beads


  • Resuspend by repeat pipetting using p200 pipettor.
  • Dilute in 1/200 ratio with nuclease-free H2O
    • Take 1 uL resuspension into a fresh 1.5 mL tube with 199 uL Nuclease-free H2O. Mix gently by repeat pipetting (p200).
    • The new bead conc. will be 6 x 10^7 bead / 200 (uL) x 1/200 = 1500 bead /uL


  • Leave the slide on Magnetic bord. Transfer 10 uL, 20 uL, 40 uL on microwell arrays.
    • The bead drop can barely cover the entire array area except using 20 ~ 40 uL of total volume.


  • Air day the slide on hume hood for until the diluent is fully evaporated

Microscope images

  • The structure microwell and microbead were characterized using Zessis A1-mode flourescent microscope with 10X objective


FIG. 1: Black and white image (10X objective)


FIG. 2: Color image in green (10X objective)