CN120356819B - Digital micro-fluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and online analysis method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and an online analysis method, which belong to the technical field of ion sources and online analysis methods, and are characterized in that an upper cover plate of the digital microfluidic chip is provided with 1mm of micropores, a transfer capillary tube with the outer diameter of 1mm is inserted into the micropores of the upper cover plate of the digital microfluidic chip, a spray capillary tube with the outer diameter of 360 micrometers and the inner diameter of 100 micrometers or 50 micrometers is nested in the transfer capillary tube, a spray electrode is a metal wire and is arranged in the transfer capillary tube, an adaptation structure is printed by a 3D printer, and the digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source is used for fixing the transfer capillary tube, the spray capillary tube and the spray electrode.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to an ion source and an online analysis method, in particular to a digital micro-fluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and an online analysis method, and belongs to the technical field of ion sources and online analysis methods.
Background
The mass spectrometry technology is used as a high-sensitivity, high-precision and high-resolution molecular detection method, has the advantages of small sample consumption, high analysis speed, high specificity, capability of simultaneously separating and identifying and the like, is widely applied to a plurality of industries and scientific research fields such as chemical engineering, biological medicine, life science, clinical medicine, food sanitation, environmental science, material science and the like, becomes a gold standard and mainstream analysis tool for biochemical analysis in the related fields, and plays a vital role in accurate measurement of mass and material structure. However, traditional mass spectrometry typically relies on manual sample preparation, which is inefficient and complex in flow, and difficult to meet on-the-fly analysis requirements. In addition, the sample to be measured is often required to be transferred between different containers for manually preparing the sample, so that the sample is relatively lost and is easy to pollute, and the accuracy of a mass spectrum result is affected.
Based on this, we have devised a new ion source to solve the above-mentioned problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention mainly aims to provide a digital micro-fluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and an online analysis method.
The aim of the invention can be achieved by adopting the following technical scheme:
the digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and the online analysis method comprise a digital microfluidic chip, wherein a 1mm micropore is arranged on an upper cover plate of the digital microfluidic chip;
the outer diameter of the transfer capillary tube is 1mm, and the transfer capillary tube is inserted into a micropore of the upper cover plate of the digital microfluidic chip;
A spray capillary having an outer diameter of 360 microns and an inner diameter of 100 microns or 50 microns, nested within the transfer capillary;
the spray electrode is a metal wire and is arranged in the transfer capillary;
And the adapting structure is printed by a 3D printer and is used for fixing the transfer capillary, the spray capillary and the spray electrode.
Preferably, the digital microfluidic chip is used for mixing, reacting, separating and detecting micro droplets.
Preferably, the transverse distance between the spray capillary and the mass spectrum sample inlet is 3mm, and the longitudinal distance is 2mm.
Preferably, the voltage applied by the spray electrode is 3kV.
The digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source online analysis method comprises the following steps of injecting a sample into a digital microfluidic chip;
driving the liquid drops on the chip to move onto the spray electrode, enabling the liquid drops to enter the transfer capillary by utilizing capillary action, and enabling the liquid drops to be in contact with the spray capillary and the metal electrode;
and applying 3kV voltage to the metal wire of the spray electrode to generate electrospray, and transmitting the ionized sample to a mass spectrometer for analysis.
Preferably, the method further comprises the step of selecting a surfactant at a suitable concentration, wherein the surfactant is poloxamer, and the concentration is 0.05%.
Preferably, the sample is a small molecule standard, a mixed solution or a miltefosine and N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl ester solution with different concentrations.
Preferably, in the analysis process, the method further comprises the step of verifying the system performance, wherein the verification comprises the step of testing the influence of different distances between the spray capillary and the mass spectrum sample inlet on signals and optimizing distance parameters;
Testing the influence of spray capillaries with different inner diameters and different voltages on signals, and optimizing the inner diameters and voltage parameters of the spray capillaries;
testing the repeatability and sensitivity of the system, and evaluating the overall performance of the system.
Preferably, the repeatability test is that 10 experiments are carried out on each group of samples of miltefosine of 40, 80 and 120 mug/mL, and the variation coefficient is less than 8 percent.
Preferably, the sensitivity test is to analyze 1-1000ng/mL miltefosine and N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl ester solution by adopting the system, the linearity of the miltefosine and the N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl ester solution is good, and the detection limit is 1ng/mL;
the shape and size of the adapting structure are designed according to the positions and shapes of the transfer capillary, the spray capillary and the spray electrode;
The materials of the transfer capillary, the spray capillary and the spray electrode are materials which can withstand the experimental environment and do not affect the sample property and the analysis result, such as quartz and stainless steel.
The beneficial technical effects of the invention are as follows:
According to the digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupling ion source and the online analysis method, the digital microfluidic chip can complete a series of operations such as mixing, reacting, separating and detecting of tiny liquid drops on a single platform, and high integration and automation of a sample processing flow are realized. Compared with the traditional complicated process that samples need to be transferred between different containers in manual sample preparation, the technology greatly reduces manual operation steps, remarkably improves analysis efficiency, and simultaneously effectively reduces sample loss and pollution risk caused by manual operation.
By optimizing the surfactant (poloxamer, concentration 0.05%), the interference on the mass spectrum signal is avoided under the premise of ensuring the normal driving of the liquid drops. Experiments show that the driving rate of the liquid drops under the concentration is equivalent to that of the liquid drops under the concentration of 0.1%, and the accuracy of subsequent mass spectrometry can be ensured.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and system for online coupling of digital microfluidic and mass spectrometry according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a graph of the lateral and longitudinal distances of an optimized spray capillary from a mass spectrometry sample inlet for a preferred embodiment of a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and online analysis method according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a graph of optimized spray capillary inner diameter and spray voltage for a preferred embodiment of a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and online analysis method according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the effect of PF68 of different concentrations on the movement speed of droplets in digital microfluidic according to a preferred embodiment of the digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and online analysis method of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a graph of the effect of PF68 of 0.05% on mass spectrometry signal for a preferred embodiment of a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and an online analysis method according to the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a diagram comparing a preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention with the Nano-ESI method for an online coupled ion source and online analysis method of digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry;
FIG. 7 is a diagram of a reproducibility analysis of a preferred embodiment of a digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and online analysis method according to the present invention;
Fig. 8 is a graph of detection performance analysis of a preferred embodiment of the digital microfluidic-mass spectrometry online coupled ion source and online analysis method according to the present invention.
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In order to make the technical solution of the present invention more clear and obvious to those skilled in the art, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples and drawings, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.
Firstly, a 1mm micropore is punched on an upper cover plate of a digital microfluidic chip, then a capillary tube with the outer diameter of 1mm is inserted to be used as a transfer capillary tube, a capillary tube with the outer diameter of 360 micrometers and the inner diameter of 100 (50) micrometers is nested in the transfer capillary tube to be used as a spray capillary tube, a metal wire is used as a spray electrode, and a 3D printer is used for printing an adapting structure to fix the ion source. The structure is shown in fig. 1. Then verifying the influence of different distances between the spray capillary and a mass spectrum sample inlet, different inner diameters of the spray capillary and different voltages on signals, and then verifying the overall performance of the system by using a plurality of small molecular standards (miltefosine, N-benzoyl-L-ethyl arginine and the like);
Experiment one spray capillary and mass spectrum sample inlet different distance to influence the signal;
we used 100ug/mL miltefosine as standard, injected 4 uL standard into the chip, then driven the liquid drop to move to the spray electrode, because of capillary action, the liquid drop will enter the transfer capillary and contact with the spray capillary and the metal electrode, at this time, by applying 3kV voltage to the metal wire to generate electrospray, the distance between the spray capillary and the mass spectrum sample inlet is optimized according to the signal size. As shown in FIG. 2, the signal intensity is maximum and the ionization effect is best when the transverse and longitudinal distances between the spray capillary and the mass spectrum sample inlet are 3 mm and 2mm respectively. The subsequent experiments all employ this set of distance parameters;
experimental two spray capillary inner diameter and voltage size influence on signal;
similar to experiment I, we still used miltefosine as a standard, and evaluated the effect of spray capillaries with outer diameters of 360um, inner diameters of 100, 75 and 50um, and voltage levels (2-4 kV) on the signal, and the results were shown in FIG. 3, with the highest intensity at an inner diameter of 100 um and a spray voltage level of 3 kV.
The interference of the surfactant on the mass spectrum signal is explored in the third experiment;
Since digital microfluidic driving droplet movement requires a certain concentration of surfactant, and the sensitivity of mass spectrum is extremely high, it is necessary to explore different concentrations of surfactant, and because poloxamer is a non-ionic surfactant, it has small interference to the mass spectrum signal, we first tested the effect of different concentrations (0.0125, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1%) of surfactant on droplet driving, as shown in fig. 4, when the surfactant concentration is 0.05%, the droplet driving rate is far higher than the first two groups, and is equivalent to the result of 0.1%, and fig. 5 shows that 0.05% of surfactant does not interfere much with the mass spectrum signal, so that 0.05% of poloxamer can support normal driving of droplet, but does not interfere with the mass spectrum signal, and the subsequent experiments also use the parameter.
Performing online coupling system evaluation of experimental four-digit microfluidic and mass spectrum;
After optimization of experimental conditions, we tested the performance of the system. Firstly, the reserpine and other mixed solutions are injected into a chip, then the chip is driven to a spraying position for online mass spectrometry, and then the same sample is analyzed by using Nano-ESI, as shown in figure 6, the mass spectrograms of the reserpine and the sample are similar, so that the effect of the reserpine and the sample is equivalent to that of the Nano-ESI. Then we use miltefosine of 40, 80 and 120ug/mL to conduct repeatability test, and each group of samples is subjected to 10 experiments, and the results are shown in figure 7, and the variation coefficients are all less than 8%, which shows that the system has good repeatability. Finally, the sensitivity of the system is evaluated by respectively using miltefosine and N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl ester, and in an experiment, the system is adopted to analyze N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl ester solutions, imatinib and miltefosine with different concentrations (1-1000 ng/mL). At least 3 replicates were run per measurement. The average ionic strength during MS analysis was recorded. As shown in fig. 8, the linearity of the two is good (r2= 0.975,0.976,0.988), the detection limit is 1ng/mL, and the insertion is the corresponding tandem mass spectrum.
The above description is merely a further embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will be able to apply equivalents and modifications according to the technical solution and the concept of the present invention within the scope of the present invention disclosed in the present invention.
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