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Tahereh Khajvand's paper has been accepted by Lab Chip

2021-11-10 18:50:00

Multiplexed protein secretion analysis of single cells is important to understand the heterogeneity of cellular functions and processes in healthy and disease states. However, current single-cell platforms, such as microwell, microchamber, or droplet-based assays, suffers from the low single-cell occupancy, waste of reagents, limited sensitivity, or inability to perform necessary operations, etc. To overcome these drawbacks, we present an integrated droplet microfluidic device that interfaces with spatially patterned antibody barcodes for multiplexed single-cell secretome analysis. The trapping array of 100 picoliter-sized isolation chambers could achieve >80% single-cell capture efficiency with >90% viability. The single-cell analysis microchip was validated by the detection of four-plexed cytokines, including IL-8, MCP-1, MIP-1b, and TNF-a /IL-10, from unstimulated and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated individual human macrophages. We also successfully applied the platform to profile protein secretions of human tumor cell lines and primary/metastatic cancer cells dissociated from cancer patients to observe the secretion heterogeneity among cells. This unique microfluidic platform enables multiplexed secretion assay for static droplet microfluidics and provides a reliable and straightforward workflow for protein secretion assays based on a low number of single-cells in a short incubation time (~4h), and could have widespread applications for studying secretion-mediated cellular heterogeneity.