A Digital PCR System Based on the Thermal Cycled Chip with Multi Helix Winding Capillary

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2020 Oct 21

PMID 33082428

Authors

Bin Li

Yuanming Li

Yangyang Jiang

Andreas Manz

Wenming Wu

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Abstract

This paper presents a digital PCR system based on a novel thermal cycled chip, which wraps microchannels on a trapezoidal structure made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) in a multi-helix manner for the first time. It is found that compared to the single helix chip commonly used in previous reports, this kind of novel multi-helix chip can make the surface temperature in the renaturation zone more uniform, and even in the case of rapid fluid flow, it can improve the efficiency of the polymerase chain reaction. What's more, the winding method of multi helix (such as double helix, six helix and eight helix) can obtain better temperature uniformity than the winding of odd helix (such as single helix and three helix). As a proof of concept, the temperature-optimized double-helical chip structure is applied to continuous-flow digital PCR and there is no need to add any surfactant to both the oil phase and reagent. In addition, we successfully analyzed the fluorescence signal of continuous-flow digital PCR by using CMOS camera. Finally, this method is applied for the absolute quantification of the clinical serum sample infected by HBV. The accuracy of the test results has been confirmed by commercial instruments.

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