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2014 ; 24
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Gas-Assisted Annular Microsprayer for Sample Preparation for Time-Resolved
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Lu Z
; Barnard D
; Shaikh TR
; Meng X
; Mannella CA
; Yassin A
; Agrawal R
; Wagenknecht T
; Lu TM
J Micromech Microeng
2014[Nov]; 24
(11
): 115001
PMID25530679
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Time-resolved cryo electron microscopy (TRCEM) has emerged as a powerful
technique for transient structural characterization of isolated biomacromolecular
complexes in their native state within the time scale of seconds to milliseconds.
For TRCEM sample preparation, microfluidic device [9] has been demonstrated to be
a promising approach to facilitate TRCEM biological sample preparation. It is
capable of achieving rapidly aqueous sample mixing, controlled reaction
incubation, and sample deposition on electron microscopy (EM) grids for rapid
freezing. One of the critical challenges is to transfer samples to cryo-EM grids
from the microfluidic device. By using microspraying method, the generated
droplet size needs to be controlled to facilitate the thin ice film formation on
the grid surface for efficient data collection, while not too thin to be dried
out before freezing, i.e., optimized mean droplet size needs to be achieved. In
this work, we developed a novel monolithic three dimensional (3D) annular
gas-assisted microfluidic sprayer using 3D MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System)
fabrication techniques. The microsprayer demonstrated dense and consistent
microsprays with average droplet size between 6-9 ?m, which fulfilled the above
droplet size requirement for TRCEM sample preparation. With droplet density of
around 12-18 per grid window (window size is 58×58 ?m), and the data collectible
thin ice region of >50% total wetted area, we collected ~800-1000 high quality
CCD micrographs in a 6-8 hour period of continuous effort. This level of output
is comparable to what were routinely achieved using cryo-grids prepared by
conventional blotting and manual data collection. In this case, weeks of data
collection process with the previous device [9] has shortened to a day or two.
And hundreds of microliter of valuable sample consumption can be reduced to only
a small fraction.