Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 105, Issue 6, Pages 1078-1093Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22635
Keywords
magnetic cell separation; magnetic nanoparticles; MACS; magnetophoretic mobility; non-specific binding; nanoparticle uptake
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- National Science Foundation [BES-0124897]
- National Cancer Institute [R01 CA62349, R01 CA97391-01A1]
- State of Ohio Third Frontier Program [ODOD 26140000: TECH 07-001]
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The maturation of magnetic cell separation technology places increasing demands on magnetic cell separation performance. While a number of factors can cause sub-optimal performance, one of the major challenges can be non-specific binding of magnetic nano-or micro-particles to non-targeted cells. Depending on the type of separation, this non-specific binding can have a negative effect on the final purity, the recovery of the targeted cells, or both. In this work, we quantitatively demonstrate that nonspecific binding of magnetic nanoparticles can impart a magnetization to cells such that these cells can be retained in a separation column and thus negatively impact the purity of the final product and the recovery of the desired cells. Through experimental data and theoretical arguments, we demonstrate that the number of MACS magnetic particles needed to impart a magnetization that is sufficient to cause non-targeted cells to be retained in the column to be on the order of 500-1,000 nanoparticles. This number of non-specifically bound particles was demonstrated experimentally with an instrument, cell tracking velocimeter, CTV, and it is demonstrated that the sensitivity of the CTV instrument for Fe atoms contained in magnetic nanoparticles on the order of 1 x 10(-15) g/mL of Fe. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2010; 105: 1078-1093. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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