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Ward CL, Cornejo MA, Peli Thanthri SH, Linz TH. A review of electrophoretic separations in temperature-responsive Pluronic thermal gels. Anal Chim Acta 2023; 1276:341613. [PMID: 37573098 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2023.341613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/14/2023]
Abstract
Gel electrophoresis is a ubiquitous bioanalytical technique used in research laboratories to validate protein and nucleic acid samples. Polyacrylamide and agarose have been the gold standard gel materials for decades, but an alternative class of polymer has emerged with potentially superior performance. Pluronic thermal gels are water-soluble polymers that possess the unique ability to undergo a change in viscosity in response to changing temperature. Thermal gels can reversibly convert between low-viscosity liquids and high-viscosity solid gels using temperature as an adjustable parameter. The properties of thermal gels provide unmatched flexibility as a dynamic separations matrix to measure analytes ranging from small molecules to cells. This review article describes the physical and chemical properties of Pluronic thermal gels to provide a fundamental overview of polymer behavior. The performance of thermal gels is then reviewed to highlight their applications as a gel matrix for electrokinetic separations in capillary, microfluidic, and slab gel formats. The use of dynamic temperature-responsive gels in bioanalytical separations is an underexplored area of research but one that holds exciting potential to achieve performance unattainable with conventional static polymers.
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- Cassandra L Ward
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Lumigen Instrument Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Peli Thanthri SH, Linz TH. Controlling the separation of native proteins with temperature in thermal gel transient isotachophoresis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022:10.1007/s00216-022-04331-w. [PMID: 36151350 PMCID: PMC10033466 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-04331-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) is a ubiquitous technique used in biochemical research laboratories to characterize protein samples. Despite its popularity, PAGE is relatively slow and provides limited separation resolution, especially for native proteins. This report describes the development of a microfluidic thermal gel transient isotachophoresis (TG-tITP) method to rapidly separate native proteins with high resolution. Thermal gels were employed as a separations matrix because of their unique ability to change viscosity in response to temperature. Proteins were added into thermal gel and loaded into a microfluidic device. Electrolyte optimization was conducted to achieve robust tITP to isotachophoretically preconcentrate proteins and then electrophoretically separate them. Electropherograms were collected through both time and distance to enable both small and large proteins to be measured within a single analysis. The effects of temperature were evaluated and found to exhibit a pronounced effect on the separation. Temperature gradients were then employed to alter thermal gel viscosity over time to maximize separation resolution between proteins. The results herein demonstrate how gradient TG-tITP achieves rapid, high-performance separations of native proteins. This analysis provided a wide mass range (6-464 kDa) with two-fold higher resolution than native PAGE while requiring 15,000-fold less protein loading and providing five-fold faster analysis times.
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, 5101 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA.
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De Jong CAG, Risley J, Lee AK, Zhao SS, Chen DDY. Separation of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins Using Capillary Gel Electrophoresis and Capillary Isoelectric Focusing. Methods Mol Biol 2016; 1466:137-149. [PMID: 27473487 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-4014-1_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Detailed step-by-step methods for protein separation techniques based on capillary electrophoresis (CE) are described in this chapter. Focus is placed on two techniques, capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE) and capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF). CGE is essentially gel electrophoresis, performed in a capillary, where a hydrogel is used as a sieving matrix to separate proteins or peptides based on size. cIEF separates proteins or peptides based on their isoelectric point (pI), the pH at which the protein or peptide bears no charges. Detailed protocols and steps (including capillary preparation, sample preparation, CE separation conditions, and detection) for both CGE and cIEF presented so that readers can follow the described methods in their own labs.
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- Caitlyn A G De Jong
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1.
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Recent applications of microchip electrophoresis to biomedical analysis. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2015; 113:72-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2015.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Revised: 02/28/2015] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chung M, Kim D, Herr AE. Polymer sieving matrices in microanalytical electrophoresis. Analyst 2014; 139:5635-54. [DOI: 10.1039/c4an01179a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Sieradzka E, Witt K, Milnerowicz H. The application of capillary electrophoresis techniques in toxicological analysis. Biomed Chromatogr 2014; 28:1507-13. [PMID: 24828301 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.3234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) comprises a group of techniques used to separate chemical mixtures. Analytical separation is based on different electrophoretic mobilities, thereby allowing qualitative and quantitative evaluations to be made. The application of CE in medical science, especially in toxicological studies, is developing rapidly because of the short time required for analysis and its high sensitivity, selectivity and ability to determine substances of an acidic, alkaline and neutral character. This review focuses on the possibility of applying CE in toxicological analysis. Advances in different CE analyses and detection techniques connected with this method are described.
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- Ewelina Sieradzka
- Department of Biomedical and Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
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Shekhar S, Mukherjee M, Sen AK. Synthesis and Characterization of Thermoresponsive Terpolymer for Protein Separation. INT J POLYM MATER PO 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00914037.2013.853668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Durney BC, Lounsbury JA, Poe BL, Landers JP, Holland LA. A thermally responsive phospholipid pseudogel: tunable DNA sieving with capillary electrophoresis. Anal Chem 2013; 85:6617-25. [PMID: 23750918 DOI: 10.1021/ac303745g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In an aqueous solution the phospholipids dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1,2-dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC) self-assemble to form thermo-responsive non-Newtonian fluids (i.e., pseudogels) in which small temperature changes of 5-6 °C decrease viscosity dramatically. This characteristic is useful for sieving-based electrophoretic separations (e.g., of DNA), as the high viscosity of linear sieving additives, such as linear polyacrylamide or polyethylene oxide, hinders the introduction and replacement of the sieving agent in microscale channels. Advantages of utilizing phospholipid pseudogels for sieving are the ease with which they are introduced into the separation channel and the potential to implement gradient separations. Capillary electrophoresis separations of DNA are achieved with separation efficiencies ranging from 400,000 to 7,000,000 theoretical plates in a 25 μm i.d. fused silica capillary. Assessment of the phospholipid pseudogel with a Ferguson plot yields an apparent pore size of ~31 nm. Under isothermal conditions, Ogston sieving is achieved for DNA fragments smaller than 500 base pairs, whereas reptation-based transport occurs for DNA fragments larger than 500 base pairs. Nearly single base resolution of short tandem repeats relevant to human identification is accomplished with 30 min separations using traditional capillary electrophoresis instrumentation. Applications that do not require single base resolution are completed with faster separation times. This is demonstrated for a multiplex assay of biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms relevant to warfarin sensitivity. The thermo-responsive pseudogel preparation described here provides a new innovation to sieving-based capillary separations.
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- Brandon C Durney
- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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Al-Ghobashy MA, Williams MAK, Laible G, Harding DRK. CZE with On-line Micellar Sample Stacking for Determination of Protein Concentration of Biopharmaceuticals. Chromatographia 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10337-011-2003-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Krízek T, Coufal P, Tesarová E, Sobotníková J, Bosáková Z. Pluronic F-127 as the buffer additive in capillary entangled polymer electrophoresis: some fundamental aspects. J Sep Sci 2010; 33:2458-64. [PMID: 20645387 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201000132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Polymeric macromolecules of well-designed structures and specific properties open promising directions in the capillary entangled polymer electrophoresis. Pluronic F-127, as a thermoassociating polymer, possesses some unique properties that can be utilized in capillary entangled polymer electrophoresis of amino acids, peptides and proteins. In this study, we studied properties of Pluronic F-127 polymer as an additive to BGE for the separation of peptides and proteins. The influence of the thermoassociation on separation selectivity was studied. The addition of Pluronic caused severe instabilities of the electrical current and the signal of the UV detector. This study reveals remarkable positive effect of a low pressure applied to the inlet buffer vial during the analysis, which apparently stabilizes the electrical current and the detector signal. The effect of hydrodynamic flow induced by the pressure applied on the separation efficiency was studied and the significance of this effect was discussed. Pluronic F-127, as a representative of synthetic macromolecules, was compared with dextran, as a representative of natural polymers, in terms of separation power, selectivity and repeatability of migration times.
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- Tomás Krízek
- Faculty of Science, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Al-Ghobashy MA, Williams MAK, Harding DRK. Factors Affecting the Performance of Capillary Isoelectric Focusing in Dynamically Coated Capillaries Using Polyethylene Oxide Polymer. ANAL LETT 2008. [DOI: 10.1080/00032710802162319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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