TY - GEN
T1 - Bacteria manipulation using dielectrophoresis for efficient screening
AU - Kano, T.
AU - Inaba, T.
AU - Miki, N.
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - In this paper we demonstrate a microfluidic device that immobilizes microbes into microporous carrier using positive dielectrophoresis (DEP). This device can characterize bacteria, while precisely controlling the reaction conditions and the number of bacteria involved in the biochemical reaction, and can effectively screen them to efficiently produce useful chemicals by fermentation, such as organic acids, antibiotic drugs, and foods. We chose microbes belonging to Corynebacterium group as samples. First, as preparing for using the microfluidic device, we experimentally deduced effective DEP frequency of 10 MHz, when live C. glutamicum was preferably driven to the areas with stronger electric fields. Second, we characterized the microfluidic device and found that the device could immobilize microbes into micro pores and evaluate the production capacity of a single bacrerium. As the demonstration, we used the developed device to characterize microbes under various environments and evaluate biological activity.
AB - In this paper we demonstrate a microfluidic device that immobilizes microbes into microporous carrier using positive dielectrophoresis (DEP). This device can characterize bacteria, while precisely controlling the reaction conditions and the number of bacteria involved in the biochemical reaction, and can effectively screen them to efficiently produce useful chemicals by fermentation, such as organic acids, antibiotic drugs, and foods. We chose microbes belonging to Corynebacterium group as samples. First, as preparing for using the microfluidic device, we experimentally deduced effective DEP frequency of 10 MHz, when live C. glutamicum was preferably driven to the areas with stronger electric fields. Second, we characterized the microfluidic device and found that the device could immobilize microbes into micro pores and evaluate the production capacity of a single bacrerium. As the demonstration, we used the developed device to characterize microbes under various environments and evaluate biological activity.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386197
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872334035
SN - 9781467317375
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 3247
EP - 3252
BT - 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012
T2 - 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
Y2 - 7 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -