An easily replaceable and regenerable protease microreactor with metal-ion chelated adsorption of enzyme has been fabricated on chip. Magnetic microspheres with small size (approximately 200 nm in diameter) and strong magnetism were synthesized and were modified with tetraethyl orthosilicate. The metal chelating agent of iminodiacetic acid was then reacted with glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane before its immobilization onto the surface of magnetic silica microspheres (MS microspheres). The metal ion of copper and enzyme were subsequently adsorbed onto the surface. The prepared MS microspheres were then locally packed into the microchannel by the application of a strong magnetic field using a magnet to form an on-chip enzymatic microreactor. Capability of the proteolytic microreactor was demonstrated by cytochrome c and bovine serum albumin as model proteins. The digestion products were characterized using MALDI-TOF/TOF MS with sequence coverage of 77% and 21% observed, respectively. This microreactor was also applied to the analysis of one RPLC fraction of rat liver extract. After a database search, 23 unique peptides corresponding to 7 proteins were identified when one RPLC fraction of rat liver extract was digested by the microreactor. This opens a route for its future application in top-down proteomic analysis.
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