Tumour metastasis-associated gene profiling using one-dimensional microfluidic beads array

• Published in: Chinese science bulletin 2007-09, Vol.52 (17), p.2331-2336
• Main Authors: Wen, JianHui, Yang, XiaoHai, Wang, KeMin, Zuo, XinBing, Zhang, He
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 原发性肿瘤; 基因表达; 微射流技术; 肿瘤转移
• ISSN: 1001-6538; 1861-9541
• DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0325-7

Great efforts have been made on the early diagnosis and molecular mechanism research of tumour metastasis in recent years. In this paper, based on the one-dimensional microfluidic beads array, a novel platform for tumour metastasis-associated genes profiling has been developed by depositing nucleic acids functional beads in the microchannel. This platform is sensitive （limit of detection： 0.02 nmol/L） and can perform mRNAs analysis without PCR. Two human colon cancer cell lines （primary and metastatic） from the same patient were used as a model, and transcriptional expression profiling of multiple tumour metastasis-associated genes in these two cell lines was successfully achieved. Furthermore, the results obtained on the beads array were validated by RT-PCR. This novel beads array has advantages of high sensitivity, little sample consumption, short assay time, low cost and high throughput capability. It holds the potential in early diagnosis and mechanism research of tumour metastasis.