Simultaneous isolation and preconcentration of exosomes by ion concentration polarization method and apparatus

US10983035B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• University of Notre Dame du Lac · US

Inventors

• Steven Marczak · Notre Dame, US
• Zeinab Ramshani · Notre Dame, US
• Reginald Hill · Chicago, US
• David B. Go · South Bend, US
• Hsueh-Chia Chang · Granger, US
• Satyajyoti Senapati · Jamkhed, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 20, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2001/4088
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Exosomes carry microRNA biomarkers, occur in higher abundance in cancerous patients than in healthy ones, and because they are present in most biofluids, including blood and urine, can be obtained non-invasively. Standard laboratory techniques to isolate exosomes are expensive, time-consuming, provide poor purity, and recover on the order of 25% of the available exosomes. We present a new microfluidic technique to simultaneously isolate exosomes and preconcentrate them by electrophoresis using a high transverse local electric field generated by ion-depleting ion-selective membrane. We use pressure-driven flow to deliver an exosome sample to a microfluidic chip such that the transverse electric field forces them out of the cross flow and into an agarose gel which filters out unwanted cellular debris while the ion-selective membrane concentrates the exosomes through an enrichment effect. We efficiently isolated exosomes from 1×PBS buffer, cell culture media and blood serum. Using flow rates from 150 μL/hr to 200 μL/hr and field strengths of 100 V/cm, we consistently captured between 60% to 80% of exosomes from buffer, cell culture media, and blood serum as confirmed by both fluoresce…