Detection of EGFR gene with a droplet digital PCR chip integrating a double-layer glass reservoir

Autor: Haojun Yuan, Wanlei Gao, Jiawen Yin, Kai Chen, Ying Mu, Qinghui Jin, Chunping Jia, Hui Cong, Jiancheng Yu, Jianlong Zhao
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Analytical biochemistry. 656
ISSN: 1096-0309
Popis: The lack of reliable and practical method for detecting rare hot mutation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for lung cancer has remained a challenge for general clinical application due to excess wild type DNA in clinical samples. In this study, we developed a droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) platform, integrating a PDMS chip and double-layer glass reservoir. The duplex T-junction droplet generators in PDMS chip can produce about one million uniform droplets of 4.187 pL within ∼10 min, which were then stored in the glass reservoir. The double-layer glass reservoir can protect droplets from evaporation and breaking, solving the problem of instability during thermal-cycling. The quantitative capabilities of the ddPCR chip were evaluated by testing EGFR exon gene 21, with a good linear correlation in the wide range of 10
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