Pipette鈥揝urface Interaction: Current Enhancement and Intrinsic Force

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• 作者：Richard W. Clarke ; Alexander Zhukov ; Owen Richards ; Nicholas Johnson ; Victor Ostanin ; David Klenerman
• 刊名：The Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：January 9, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：135
• 期：1
• 页码：322-329
• 全文大小：384K
• 年卷期：v.135,no.1(January 9, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

There is an intrinsic repulsion between glass and cell surfaces that allows noninvasive scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM) of cells and which must be overcome in order to form the gigaseals used for patch clamping investigations of ion channels. However, the interactions of surfaces in physiological solutions of electrolytes, including the presence of this repulsion, for example, do not obviously agree with the standard Derjaguin鈥揕andau鈥揤erwey鈥揙verbeek (DLVO) colloid theory accurate at much lower salt concentrations. In this paper we investigate the interactions of glass nanopipettes in this high-salt regime with a variety of surfaces and propose a way to resolve DLVO theory with the results. We demonstrate the utility of this understanding to SICM by topographically mapping a live cell鈥檚 cytoskeleton. We also report an interesting effect whereby the ion current though a nanopipette can increase under certain conditions upon approaching an insulating surface, rather than decreasing as would be expected. We propose that this is due to electroosmotic flow separation, a high-salt electrokinetic effect. Overall these experiments yield key insights into the fundamental interactions that take place between surfaces in strong solutions of electrolytes.