A combinatorial multicomponent plug mixer for systems chemistry

Micro Total Anal Syst. 2008 Oct 12:2008:1904-1906.

Abstract

We report the construction and testing of a combinatorial multicomponent plug mixer (CMPM) chip that generates a large number of mix ratios. The CMPM chip has been designed to study ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) protein-protein/protein-ligand interaction networks. The 4-component chip is capable of 5400 different combinations in a 30 plug cycle. CMPM chips were tested producing fluorescent dye and dihydrofolate reductase NADPH/MX mixtures with plug lengths of 2 mm.