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Publications and source records attributed to Masaya Miyazaki.
A novel and facile method for the preparation of an enzyme-immobilized microreactor has been developed in which enzymes are immobilized as an enzyme-polymer membrane formed on the inner wall of the microchannel by a cross-linking polymerization method; the resulting microreactor shows excellent reaction performance and stability against denaturating agents.
Microfluidic systems enable superior control of fluidics. We have developed a novel size-separation method utilizing secondary flow within a microchannel. Using confocal fluorescence microscopy and computer simulation, we confirmed that separation occurred as a result of specific molecular localization in the curving part of the microchannel. Maximum separation efficiency was achieved by optimizing microchannel design and flow rate for individual separation targets. In addition, more effective separation was achieved by use of plural microchannel curves. This method was used for sequence-selective DNA sensing. Double-stranded DNA formed by hybridization between target DNA and a complementary probe had different elution profiles from those of the single-stranded non-complementary sequence. Moreover, the response depends on the length of the DNA molecules. This method does not require immobilization of either probe or target DNA, because all reactions occurred in the solution phase. Such features may reduce experimental error and the difference between data from different operators.
We have developed a microfluidic system for polymerization of amino acid N-carboxyanhydride and compared the properties of the products with those obtained by batchwise system under various experimental conditions. It was found that the microreactor produced polymers with narrower molecular weight distribution compared with polymers obtained by the batchwise system. Also, the molecular mass of the polymer produced using the microreactor was simply governed by the flow (pumping) rate. These results indicated that the microreactor could be a model for synthesis of amino acid polymer with highly controllable average molecular weight and molecular weight distribution.
We developed a simple immobilisation method for His-tagged enzymes on a microchannel surface. It facilitates immobilisation of protein molecule on microchannel surface through Ni-complex, using crude or purified protein solutions. By this method, we could immobilize proteins on microcapillary constantly. This method might be useful for further development of microreactor with reversibly immobilized enzymes.
Conformational control of macromolecules is useful for efficient chemical and biochemical reactions. This article reports a direct observation method for macromolecules, such as long-strand DNA, in microchannel flow as well as a simple method for stretching DNA strands by microfluidics. Stretching and orientation of DNA molecules by control of flow within a microchannel was observed by optical microscopy. This DNA stretching is explained by coil-stretch transition of polymer molecules. This technique is useful for creating chemical reactions with macromolecules. It offers high selectivity and efficiency that are impossible to achieve in bulk solution. We also demonstrate that our microfluidic stretching method can accomplish efficient hybridization of long-strand DNA. This method will be useful for direct hybridization assay of long-strand DNA.
We used a microreactor for CdSe nanocrystal preparation and explored the effects of experimental conditions on the properties of the products. The particle growth kinetics and photoluminescence properties of the nanocrystals showed identical trends to previous reports, indicating the efficiency of the current method for analysis of rapid nanocrystal synthesis as well as industrial production of CdSe nanocrystals.
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ZnS-coated CdSe composite particles have been continuously synthesized in a microfluidic reactor. By using this system, CdSe particles and a ZnS coating can be produced in sequence, and the particle size and layer thickness can be directly adjusted by the residence time. It demonstrated that the continuous synthesis in the microreactor was a simple and efficient way to prepare composite particles with different structures and determine the optimized experimental conditions.
On-site detection methods for DNA have been demanded in the pathophysiology field. Such analysis requires a simple and accurate method, rather than high-throughput. This report describes a novel microfluidic analysis method and its application for simple sequence-selective DNA detection. The method uses a microchannel device with a serpentine structure. Sequence-specific binding of probe DNA can be detected at one side of the microchannel. This method is capable of sequence-specific detection of DNA with high accuracy. Single base mutations can also be analyzed. Combination of laminar stream and laminar secondary flow in the microchannel enable specific detection of probe-bound DNA.
By using silica layers bound to the surface of the inner wall of the microchannel via a self-assembly technique which relies on capillary forces to organize the colloids, TiO2 particles were attached to the inner surface of a microcapillary. The reduction rate of methylene blue increased by more than 150 times in the SiO2/TiO2 modified micro-space compared to that in a batch system.
We developed a novel preparation method of nanostructure on the microchannel surface formed by sol-gel like simple treatment with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, which is suitable for a highly efficient enzyme-immobilized microchannel reactor.
Formylpeptide receptors are well-characterized receptors which participate in host defense responses of neutrophils. We designed and synthesized chemotactic peptide analog with p-benzoylphenylalanine (Bpa) and biotin to probe structural and mechanistic aspects of peptide-receptor interaction. These peptides possess biological activities which were dependent upon spacer residue length of and Bpa position. The covalent photoaffinity label was detected by Streptavidine-blot, which was inhibited by the parent peptide.
A micro-reactor was utilized for continuous and controlled CdSe nanocrystal preparation. Effects of reaction conditions on optical properties of the nanocrystals were investigated; in this current system, rapid and exact temperature control of the micro-reactor was beneficial for controlling particle diameter and reproducible preparation of particles; additional effort was made towards narrower particle-size distributions.
A stable interface between two insoluble currents in a microchannel reactor has been obtained by selecting the solvents and adjusting the flow rate; titania particles with a size of less than 10 nm could be prepared continuously on this interface; this new method shows great advantage for the control and measurement of particle sizes.