Microfluidic chip for nucleic acid extraction and PCR detection and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to a micro-fluidic chip for nucleic acid extraction and PCR detection and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of micro-fluidic chip analysis.
Background
The microfluidic chip technology (Microfluidics) integrates basic operation units of sample preparation, reaction, separation, detection and the like in the processes of biological, chemical and medical analysis on a micron-scale chip by taking a micro-pipeline network as a structural characteristic, and automatically completes the whole analysis process. Due to its great potential in the fields of biology, chemistry, medicine and the like, the method has been developed into a new research field crossing the disciplines of biology, chemistry, medicine, fluid, electronics, materials, machinery and the like. The existing micro-fluidic chip is mostly composed of a plurality of layers or an upper layer and a lower layer, and the chip is made of materials such as monocrystalline silicon, glass, quartz, high molecular polymers and the like.
The automatic sample changing of the conventional microfluidic chip adopts an array type multi-liquid-groove sample disc, introduces a sample into a sample inlet hole of a chip channel through a probe, and controls a sample introduction probe to be inserted into a specified sample liquid groove for sample introduction by adopting an X-Y-Z three-dimensional robot. The capillary is coupled with the chip, the capillary which is vertical to the chip and is communicated with the channel absorbs liquid and samples, and is combined with the array type sample disk, and the control also adopts a three-dimensional manipulator. The common characteristic is that the sample changing operation can be realized only by the probe or the sample plate moving in three dimensions, and the defects are that the three-dimensional control mechanism is complicated, the volume is large, the cost is high, the sample changing speed is slow, the analysis flux is low, the PCR amplification detection can not be completed by the integration of nucleic acid extraction and purification and PCR amplification, and can be completed only by separation, and the operation is inconvenient.
Disclosure of Invention
Technical problem to be solved
In order to solve the above problems in the prior art, the present invention provides a microfluidic chip for nucleic acid extraction and PCR detection, which realizes that nucleic acid extraction and purification and PCR amplification detection can be completed in the same chip.
(II) technical scheme
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the main technical scheme that:
a micro-fluidic chip for extracting nucleic acid and detecting PCR comprises a nucleic acid extraction reaction bin, a purification reaction bin and a PCR reaction bin, wherein the front ends of the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin and the purification reaction bin are respectively connected with a liquid inlet bin with two branches, the rear ends of the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin and the purification reaction bin are communicated with a liquid taking bin, the front end of the PCR reaction bin is communicated with a liquid inlet bin with three branches, and the rear end of the PCR reaction bin is communicated with a liquid taking bin.
In the microfluidic chip, preferably, the nucleic acid extraction reaction chamber and the purification reaction chamber are made into one chip, the PCR reaction chamber is arranged on another chip, and one or more PCR reaction chambers are provided.
In the microfluidic chip as described above, preferably, the volumes of the chambers of the nucleic acid extraction reaction chamber, the purification reaction chamber and the PCR reaction chamber are 5-10 μ L.
In the microfluidic chip, preferably, the nucleic acid extraction reaction chamber, the purification reaction chamber and the PCR reaction chamber are cylindrical chambers or square chambers.
A method for using a microfluidic chip for extracting nucleic acid and detecting PCR (polymerase chain reaction) comprises the steps that cells are cracked outside the chip to obtain cracked sample liquid, the cracked sample liquid enters a liquid inlet bin through a capillary, the cracked sample liquid in the liquid inlet bin is added into a nucleic acid extraction reaction bin with pre-embedded magnetic beads for magnetic bead adsorption, and after adsorption, the sample liquid is washed by a buffer or pure water under the condition that the magnetic beads are fixed by an external magnetic field; if the elution of nucleic acid is needed, adding an eluent, moving a washing liquid containing magnetic beads and nucleic acid into a liquid inlet bin communicated with a purification reaction bin through a capillary, and adding the eluent into the purification reaction bin through a liquid inlet bin of the other branch for elution; if the magnetic beads adsorbing the nucleic acid are directly conveyed to a PCR reaction bin without elution, the nucleic acid is conveyed to a liquid inlet bin of the PCR reaction bin through a liquid taking bin after the nucleic acid is eluted, the nucleic acid enters the PCR reaction bin, PCR reaction liquid and enzyme are added into the liquid inlet bins of the other two branches communicated with the PCR reaction bin, PCR reaction is carried out in the PCR reaction bin, and a PCR amplification product is moved out through the liquid taking bin of the PCR reaction bin after the reaction.
In the above method, preferably, the nucleic acid extraction reaction chamber further contains a nucleic acid adsorption solution under a high-salt and low-pH solution, and the eluent contained in the purification reaction chamber is a low-salt and high-pH solution to elute the nucleic acid into the solution.
Wherein the high-salt low-pH solution is 4-8 mol of guanidine hydrochloride solution, and the pH value is 5.0-5.5; the low salt high pH solution was 0.1mM Tris, pH 8.0.
Using the method described above, preferably, the aspiration and aspiration of all solutions is controlled by a MFCS type pressure-driven microfluidic control system.
(III) advantageous effects
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the microfluidic chip for extracting nucleic acid and detecting PCR provided by the invention effectively combines the steps of extracting nucleic acid, the purification process and the PCR amplification reaction, realizes full-sealed operation, avoids secondary pollution, and ensures the reliability, the reality and the effectiveness of the experimental result.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a preferred microfluidic chip provided in the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of another preferred operation process of the microfluidic chip provided by the present invention.
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1: a nucleic acid extraction reaction bin;
2: a purification reaction bin;
3: and (3) a PCR reaction bin.
Detailed Description
For the purpose of better explaining the present invention and to facilitate understanding, the present invention will be described in detail by way of specific embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example 1
The utility model provides a micro-fluidic chip for extracting nucleic acid and PCR detect, including nucleic acid extraction reaction storehouse, purification reaction storehouse and PCR reaction storehouse, these three reaction storehouse can design on same chip, as shown in figure 1, nucleic acid extraction reaction storehouse 1 and purification reaction storehouse 2 all connect the feed liquor storehouse that has two branches in its front end, it is buffer effect when being used for solution to get into to enter the liquid storehouse with capillary connection, the rear end communicates a liquid taking storehouse, it is connected with capillary and draws out the solution in the reaction storehouse through the imbibition pump, PCR reaction storehouse front end communicates a three branch and gets the liquid storehouse, three branch's feed liquor storehouses can get into three kinds of reaction solutions respectively, PCR reaction storehouse rear end communicates a liquid taking storehouse. The nucleic acid extraction reaction bin 1 is a reaction liquid for adding magnetic bead method to extract nucleic acid, namely a reaction chamber which is used for adsorbing nucleic acid under the environment of high salt and low pH value after the surface of magnetic bead is treated by silicon, the purification reaction bin 2 is a reaction chamber which is used for eluting nucleic acid under the environment of low salt and high pH value, and the PCR reaction bin is a reaction chamber for carrying out PCR amplification. The material of the chip is high temperature resistant material, because the PCR reaction has a thermal cycle process, 35-40 cycles are possible, and the temperature gradient of each cycle is between 50-95 ℃. The PCR reaction chip also has a requirement on light transmittance because a fluorescent signal of the PCR reaction is collected. PMMA or other high polymer materials (e.g., PDMS, epoxy or PU resins) may be used.
The volume of the chambers of the nucleic acid extraction reaction chamber, the purification reaction chamber and the PCR reaction chamber is set to be 5 muL or 10 muL, the shape of the reaction chamber and the field of view for collecting the fluorescence signal have certain requirements, the specific position of the reaction chamber is designed according to the corresponding light path during design, the shape of the reaction chamber can be set to be a square chamber, and the size of the reaction chamber enables the volume of the reaction chamber to be 10 muL.
Example 2
The microfluidic chip of the embodiment is arranged on two chips for extracting nucleic acid and PCR detection, wherein one chip is provided with a nucleic acid extraction reaction bin and a purification reaction bin, and the other chip is provided with one or more PCR reaction bins. Other settings are required by the embodiment.
The reaction flow of the microfluidic chip of this example is specifically as follows: firstly, cells are cracked outside a chip to obtain cracked sample liquid, a sample injection pump is used for controlling the cracked sample liquid to enter a liquid inlet bin communicated with a nucleic acid extraction reaction bin through a capillary under the control of an MFCS type pressure-driven microfluidic control system, pre-embedded magnetic beads are added into the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin in advance, the cracked sample liquid in the liquid inlet bin is added into the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin with the pre-embedded magnetic beads for magnetic bead adsorption, after adsorption, a buffer or pure water is added into the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin through another liquid inlet bin, and the magnetic beads are washed under the condition that the magnetic beads are fixed by an external magnetic field. If the elution of nucleic acid and the elution of the nucleic acid are needed, the washing liquid containing the magnetic beads and the nucleic acid is moved into a liquid inlet bin communicated with a purification reaction bin through a capillary, and the elution is added into the purification reaction bin through a liquid inlet bin of the other branch for elution. If elution is not needed, the magnetic beads adsorbing the nucleic acid are directly conveyed to a PCR reaction bin. After nucleic acid is eluted, the nucleic acid is conveyed to a liquid inlet bin of a PCR reaction bin through a liquid taking bin and enters the PCR reaction bin, PCR reaction liquid such as PCR Buffer solution and enzyme is respectively added into the liquid inlet bins of the other two branches communicated with the PCR reaction bin, PCR amplification reaction is carried out in the PCR reaction bin, and after the reaction, a PCR amplification product is moved out through the liquid taking bin of the PCR reaction bin.
Before adding the cracked sample liquid into the nucleic acid extraction reaction bin, adding a high-salt low-pH solution (4-8 mol guanidine hydrochloride solution) in advance, wherein the pH value is 5.0-5.5, the nucleic acid is adsorbed on magnetic beads, adding an eluent into the purification reaction bin in advance, wherein the eluent is a low-salt high-pH solution and can adopt 0.1mM Tris, the pH value is 8.0, the eluent is used for eluting the nucleic acid, and the nucleic acid can enter the solution.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention in other forms, and any person skilled in the art can change or modify the technical content disclosed above into an equivalent embodiment with equivalent changes. However, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification of the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the present invention are within the protection scope of the technical solution of the present invention.