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Direct production of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip

Direct production of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip
Direct production of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip
Microfluidic systems hold great potential for the study of live microscopic cultures of cells, tissue samples, and small organisms. Integration of hyperpolarization would enable quantitative studies of metabolism in such volume limited systems by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. We demonstrate, for the first time, the integrated generation and detection of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip. The metabolite [1-13C]fumarate is produced in a nuclear hyperpolarized form by (i) introducing para-enriched hydrogen into the solution by diffusion through a polymer membrane, (ii) reaction with a substrate in the presence of a ruthenium-based catalyst, and (iii) conversion of the singlet-polarized reaction product into a magnetized form by the application of a radiofrequency pulse sequence, all on the same microfluidic chip. The microfluidic device delivers a continuous flow of hyperpolarized material at the 2.5 μL/min scale, with a polarization level of 4%. We demonstrate two methods for mitigating singlet–triplet mixing effects which otherwise reduce the achieved polarization level.
0003-2700
3260-3267
Barker, Sylwia, Joanna
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Hale, William G
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Ripka, Barbara H
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Eills, James
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Barker, Sylwia, Joanna, Dagys, Laurynas, Hale, William G, Ripka, Barbara H, Eills, James, Sharma, Manvendra, Levitt, Malcolm H. and Utz, Marcel (2022) Direct production of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip. Analytical Chemistry, 94 (7), 3260-3267. (doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05030).

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Microfluidic systems hold great potential for the study of live microscopic cultures of cells, tissue samples, and small organisms. Integration of hyperpolarization would enable quantitative studies of metabolism in such volume limited systems by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. We demonstrate, for the first time, the integrated generation and detection of a hyperpolarized metabolite on a microfluidic chip. The metabolite [1-13C]fumarate is produced in a nuclear hyperpolarized form by (i) introducing para-enriched hydrogen into the solution by diffusion through a polymer membrane, (ii) reaction with a substrate in the presence of a ruthenium-based catalyst, and (iii) conversion of the singlet-polarized reaction product into a magnetized form by the application of a radiofrequency pulse sequence, all on the same microfluidic chip. The microfluidic device delivers a continuous flow of hyperpolarized material at the 2.5 μL/min scale, with a polarization level of 4%. We demonstrate two methods for mitigating singlet–triplet mixing effects which otherwise reduce the achieved polarization level.

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Accepted/In Press date: 24 January 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 February 2022
Published date: 22 February 2022
Additional Information: The authors are indebted to Dr. Christian Bengs and Dr. Giuseppe Pileio for help with the SpinDynamica simulations, as well as for insightful discussions about the results and theory. This work has been supported by an EPSRC iCASE studentship EP/R513325/1 to SJB, co-funded by Bruker UK Ltd., as well as by the EU H2020 FETOpen Project TISuMR (Grant number 737043). This project has also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 766402, as well as ERC project 786707-FunMagResBeacons, and EPSRC grants EP/P009980/1 and EP/V055593/1.

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Local EPrints ID: 454568
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/454568
ISSN: 0003-2700
PURE UUID: bef14c9e-fe1b-46cb-9a9b-08901ce6ff83
ORCID for Sylwia, Joanna Barker: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7867-5938
ORCID for Malcolm H. Levitt: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9878-1180
ORCID for Marcel Utz: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2274-9672

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Date deposited: 16 Feb 2022 17:37
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 07:06

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Author: Sylwia, Joanna Barker ORCID iD
Author: Laurynas Dagys
Author: William G Hale
Author: Barbara H Ripka
Author: James Eills
Author: Manvendra Sharma
Author: Marcel Utz ORCID iD

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