Li, Peixian Liang, Minhui Lu, Xiaoguang Chow, Joycelyn Jia Ming Ramachandra, Chrishan J. A. Ai, Ye Sheathless Acoustic Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (aFACS) with High Cell Viability In this work, we demonstrate a sheathless acoustic fluorescence activated cell sorting (aFACS) system by combining elasto-inertial cell focusing and highly focused traveling surface acoustic wave (FTSAW) to sort cells with high recovery rate, purity, and cell viability. The microfluidic sorting device utilizes elasto-inertial particle focusing to align cells in a single file for improving sorting accuracy and efficiency without sample dilution. Our sorting device can effectively focus 1 μm particles which represents the general minimum size for a majority of cell sorting applications. Upon the fluorescence interrogation at the single cell level, individual cells are deflected to the target outlet by a ∼50 μm wide highly focused acoustic field. We have applied our aFACS to sort three different cell lines (i.e., MCF-7, MDA-231, and human-induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes; hiPSC-CMs) at ∼kHz with a sorting purity and recovery rate both of about 90%. A further comparison demonstrates that the cell viability drops by 35–45% using a commercial FACS machine, while the cell viability only drops by 3–4% using our aFACS system. The developed aFACS system provides a benchtop solution for rapid, highly accurate single cell level sorting with high cell viability, in particular for sensitive cell types. cell level;High Cell Viability;FTSAW;Sheathless Acoustic Fluorescence Activated Cell;MDA;aFACS system;recovery rate;1 μ m particles;human-induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes;MCF;cell viability 2019-11-18
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10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03021.s002