WO2000068662A1 - Revetements de surface pour films adhesifs thermofusibles - Google Patents

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WO2000068662A1
WO2000068662A1 PCT/US2000/012604 US0012604W WO0068662A1 WO 2000068662 A1 WO2000068662 A1 WO 2000068662A1 US 0012604 W US0012604 W US 0012604W WO 0068662 A1 WO0068662 A1 WO 0068662A1
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    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N1/00—Sampling; Preparing specimens for investigation
    • G01N1/28—Preparing specimens for investigation including physical details of (bio-)chemical methods covered elsewhere, e.g. G01N33/50, C12Q
    • G01N1/2813—Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate, e.g. smearing, spinning-on
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    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N1/00—Sampling; Preparing specimens for investigation
    • G01N1/28—Preparing specimens for investigation including physical details of (bio-)chemical methods covered elsewhere, e.g. G01N33/50, C12Q
    • G01N1/2813—Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate, e.g. smearing, spinning-on
    • G01N2001/2833—Collecting samples on a sticky, tacky, adhesive surface
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N1/00—Sampling; Preparing specimens for investigation
    • G01N1/28—Preparing specimens for investigation including physical details of (bio-)chemical methods covered elsewhere, e.g. G01N33/50, C12Q
    • G01N1/2813—Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate, e.g. smearing, spinning-on
    • G01N2001/2833—Collecting samples on a sticky, tacky, adhesive surface
    • G01N2001/284—Collecting samples on a sticky, tacky, adhesive surface using local activation of adhesive, i.e. Laser Capture Microdissection

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  • This invention relates to laser capture microdissection (LCM). More specifically, this disclosure sets forth an improved film for use with laser capture microdissection in which the film is used in contact with the specimen and a coating is provided over the film which prevents non specific transfer of specimen without inhibiting desired laser capture microdissection.
  • LCM Laser capture microdissection
  • a sample such as a tissue specimen has multiple cell areas scattered throughout. Taking the case of a biopsy for cancer, these cell areas can include cancer cells, pre-cancer cells, irritated cells, normal cells and other tissue.
  • the diagnostician usually desires only one type of cell or cell portion from one cell area - say for purposes of this example - the "pure" cancer cells. Further, the diagnostician requires sufficient quantity of the cells from the selected cell areas to perform further meaningful diagnosis. As a consequence, multiple samples of similar cells from one or more specimens are frequently required.
  • Laser capture microdissection is preferably performed with a transparent low temperature melting film such as (polyethylene/vinyl acetate), CAS 24937-78-8) (also known as EVA) manufactured by the Du Pont Corporation of Wilmington, Delaware. The reader will understand that many other manufacturers vend similar materials.
  • a transparent low temperature melting film such as (polyethylene/vinyl acetate), CAS 24937-78-8) (also known as EVA) manufactured by the Du Pont Corporation of Wilmington, Delaware. The reader will understand that many other manufacturers vend similar materials.
  • a specimen - usually on a glass slide is overlaid with the low temperature melting film such as EVA.
  • the low temperature melting film such as EVA.
  • a cell area of the sample wanted for dissection is visualized and located, preferably through a microscope.
  • precision heating and melting of the low temperature film occurs overlying the visualized cell area.
  • the precision heating of the low melting point film occurs by having a laser heat that portion of the low melting point film that overlies the cell area targeted for microdissection At the precision heated area, flow of the melted EVA occurs from the film to the sample onto the visualized cell area The sample is adhered to the melted EVA upon solidification of the precision melted portion of the film Thereafter, the film is removed from the sample, preferably by placing the film overlying the specimen under tension and lifting the film away from the sample Typically, the sample at the adhered identified cell area sticks to the film with the result that a microdissection occurs
  • the film a coating can either be stretched or can reside on a support surface
  • the heated film overlying the selected cell area flows into and around the specimen portions to be microdissected Thereafter, the heated and flowed low temperature melt film solidifies When the film is withdrawn, the physical interference between the flowed and solidified film mate ⁇ al and the cell area of the specimen intended for microdissection causes the film when it is withdrawn to "pull" the selected cell area from the remainder of the specimen Microdissection occurs
  • the primary reason for low temperature in the melting of the film is to avoid damage to or change the nature of the specimen EVA, among plastics has a uniquely low melting range, which can be controlled by the manufacture
  • Such manufacture control can include the addition of a va ⁇ ety of ingredients (e g rubber) to adjust the melting point and other properties
  • the ethylene part of the polymer can be used for property va ⁇ ations
  • Non-specific transfer In the LCM, recovery of materials from cell areas other than cellular material within the identified cell area is referred to as "non-specific transfer.” Non specific transfer can be detrimental to further analysis including biological amplification techniques such as PCR. Some applications of LCM are sensitive to very low levels of undesired sample areas.
  • LCM LCM as currently practiced has divided itself into two broad techniques.
  • non-contact LCM the film to which attachment occurs is held spaced a small but constant interval from the sample.
  • the film expands across the spatial interval, and adheres to the specimen at the visualized portion. W en the film is removed, microdissection occurs.
  • a solution to this problem has been to devise various means of spacing the EVA film away from the tissue, so that the EVA contacts the tissue only in the selected spots by its expansion during laser melting.
  • the EVA expands in a column or pedestal at the area of activation by about 10% to 15%, melts into the tissue sample, and then withdraws away slightly, retaining a microscopic tissue sample upon cooling.
  • the desired spacing of the EVA surface away from the tissue sample is of the order of 10 micrometers.
  • There are various ways of providing the spacing including putting a spacer film on the EVA, located so the spacer film is in contact with an area of the tissue away from the desired sampling point and holding the EVA surface away from the tissue. With regard to such spacing techniques, non specific transfer may also occur even though a spatial interval is present, due to loose or weakly adhering substances and unevenness of tissue.
  • the coating of this disclosure may be desirable to prevent non specific transfer in this method also.
  • non-contact microdissection is not without problems. Specifically, maintaining the film at a precise closely spaced interval from the specimen at the visualized cell area is difficult. Precision control of the parameters of contact of the low temperature melt film to the sample is difficult.
  • the film is brought into direct contact with the specimen before melting occurs.
  • this direct contact with the specimen has caused non-specific transfer.
  • the film used - usually EVA - is naturally tacky. This natural tackiness results from the softening point of the film that is required to minimize damage to the microdissected cell area being removed.
  • the biological specimen is also non-homogenous.
  • the specimen typically contains proteins, carbohydrates, fats oils and other cellular materials in an irregular matrix. Po ⁇ ions of this irregular matrix can preferentially adhere to tacky surfaces of the film without the laser heating.
  • the targeted material is adhered in the LCM process and withdrawn from the specimen, undesired adjacent cell areas of the specimen are removed and transported by the film. It is this non-specific transfer which it is the purpose of this invention to avoid.
  • a low temperature melt film such as EVA is prepared for laser capture microdissection by having a thin specimen non-adhering coating which is hard and non tacky.
  • the hard and non-tacky coating may be in the range of 0.1% to 10% of the total film thickness placed on the sample exposed side of the film. Alternately, a coating may be added to EVA in the range of two to two hundred micro inches.
  • the coating may be applied by any acceptable method including solvent based coatings, laminations and the like. When the coated film is brought into contact with the specimen, the specimen non- adhering coating prevents non-specific transfer due to sticky adherence of portions of the sample. Further, the hard coating will allow use of techniques to remove non-specific transferred material, such as by brushing or washing away attracted material from the hard coating.
  • the non-specimen adhering coating on the low temperature melt film surface can stabilize and protect the low temperature melt film against variations in performance due to ambient humidity and temperature variation.
  • the barrier of the thin coating allows conventional film melting with otherwise uninhibited adhesion of selected cell areas to the film.
  • Coatings on the low temperature melt film (EVA) surfaces in selected locations are made, for example by applying film-forming material from a volatile solvent-based solution, followed by evaporation of the solvent.
  • the coating solution can be applied by spraying, dipping, or adding exact volumes to a surface with a micropipet. Spreading a measured volume of solution over the surfaces can coat surfaces. The volume can control the coating thickness and concentration of coating solids added to a known area.
  • One of the simplest and most practical ways of making a coating on the EVA surface in selected locations is by applying an appropriate film-forming material from a volatile solvent-based solution followed by evaporation of the solvent.
  • a water or water-ethanol solution is optimal because it does not attack and deform the EVA surface.
  • the usual organic solvent solutions of a polymer are unsuitable because the solvent interacts with the EVA and spoils its surface.
  • the EVA used is DuPont Elvax 410.
  • the film materials used are polyvinyl alcohol (Mowiol 40-88 Hoechst, mw 127,000, Aldrich Chemical Co. 32,459-0, CAS 9002-89-5), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP, Fisher Scientific Co. BP431-100, mw 40,000, CAS 9003-39-8), and chitosan (Aldrich Chemical Co. 44,887-7, medium mw, CAS 9012-76-4).
  • chitosan solutions contain 5% by volume acetic acid in the water to solubilize the chitosan.
  • the coatings may be necessary to prepare the surface of the EVA by plasma etching to make it solution wettable. Also, some coating materials, particularly PVP, require etching of EVA to give satisfactory film adhesion. Exposure for about one minute to a plasma in air at a pressure of approximately one-half torr is sufficient.
  • the articles to be treated are placed in a six-inch diameter glass vacuum desiccator with internal electrodes, connected to a vacuum leak-testing probe as a high- voltage high-frequency current source.
  • the coating solution can be applied by spraying, dipping, or adding exact volumes to a surface with a micropipet. Applying a measured volume of solution of known concentration over known surface area, as on caps, can control the film thickness added to the known area.
  • rods with spacer bands. These spacer bands contact the specimen or slide surface and hold the low temperature melt film a given distance away from the specimen. Such spacer bands can be protected against non-specific transfer with the coatings set forth herein. Dipping, with rotation to improve evenness of coating application may be used to evenly coat the spacer bands. Rods can also be coated by addition of solution from a micropipet during rotation.
  • Pattern coating, or control of the area coated by a film can be done by masking during the plasma etching process so that the non etched surface of EVA is not wetted by the solution.
  • Various methods of printing transfer of solution to the surface can also be used to apply the solutions to coat the EVA in selected regions. Addition of ethanol to the solution of coating material will vary the wettability of the solution on the EVA.
  • the thickness of the film can be estimated by calculation from the volume and concentration added to a known area.
  • the thickness of the film can also be measured microscopically by counting interference fringes with the film against a glass slide surface or by measuring the focus location change when focusing on the upper and lower surface of a film.
  • Inclusion of a dye, preferably fluorescent, in the film can be used to calibrate the thickness by color intensity measurement.
  • a dye also makes it easy to see the location of the film, which would otherwise be difficult.
  • An example dye is rhodamine B (CAS 81-88-9) in a concentration of 100 micrograms/ml in the solution.
  • Fig 1 is a view of conventional laser capture microdissection illustrating a slide mounted specimen covered with a low temperature melt film having a cell area visualized for microdissection and illustrating schematically the laser path for heating and adhe ⁇ ng the film to the cell area of the specimen,
  • Fig 2 is an enlarged cross section illustrating the sample, the film, and the coating between the film and sample, a portion of the film shown melted and expanding through the coating to form normal laser capture microdissection;
  • Fig 3 is a further enlarged section of the film illustrating the molten portion of the film breaking through coating of this invention and adhe ⁇ ng to the specimen at least through some mechanical attachment,
  • Fig 4 illustrates in side elevation section the coating of this invention applied to a cyhnd ⁇ cal surface
  • Fig. 5 illustrates in side elevation section the coating of this invention applied to a spacer band
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a pattern prepared surface coated in a pattern with the coating of this invention, the pattern prepared surface being ideal for flat films, especially tapes and the like.
  • FIG. 1 eye E observes through microscope M slide S having specimen P.
  • Slide S at specimen P is two types of target cell areas, 14-15 Those have familia ⁇ ty with some biopsies will understand that cells are found in a mat ⁇ x in such samples
  • eye E is schematic; present practice includes the use of digital displays and the like
  • low temperature melt film F immediately overlies specimen P. It is this film which is locally and precision heated by laser L. When such heating occurs, precision melting of low temperature melt film F occurs and microdissection of specimen P at target cell area 15 can occur. Sequentially, light from laser L couples to low temperature melt film F and causes melting. Thereafter, molten low temperature melt film F attaches to specimen P. When the film is removed, the attached cell area 15 is removed with the film.
  • Fig. 2 taken along section lines 2-2 of Fig. 1, a side elevation view is taken at the sample. It is clearly seen that the film is in contact with the sample. There has been an effort to schematically represent the irregular top 18 of specimen P.
  • Fig. 3 a further enlarged view of the LCM is shown.
  • Low temperature melt film F is shown having the non-adhering coating C of this invention attached.
  • Beam 20 from laser L is shown passing upward through slide S, specimen P, and coupling to low temperature melt film F.
  • molten column 25 passes through non-adhering coating C and allows molten columns 25 to adhere to specimen P at cell area 15.
  • microdissection occurs.
  • non-adhering coating C on low temperature melt film F.
  • non-adhering coating C is between 0.1%) and 5%> of the total thickness of low temperature melt film F. In a narrow range, such thickness is from 3% to 0.5% with optimum thickness being the range of 1%>.
  • the coating can be limited in terms of coating thickness.
  • coating thickness can nominally be 1 micron in a narrow range, 0.5 to 5 microns in an intermediate range, and 0.1 to 10 microns in a broad range. Given that fact that films may vary widely in total thickness, the limitations on coating thickness are preferred.
  • Low temperature melt film F nominally is in the range of 100 microns thick, although total thickness of the film may vary. It is to be understood that low temperature melt film F is capable of transmitting all (tensile) forces necessary for the microdissection. Non-adhering coating C does not appreciably contribute to such tensile forces.
  • non-adhering coating C is of chitosan and as a consequence very brittle.
  • a coating which breaks away sharply from the EVA wetted LCM spot is important, so that a sharp edge or departure zone is maintained between the film heated to become adhesive and the surrounding non-activated film which is coated against the non-specific transfer. All that is required is that non-adhering coating C is sufficiently non-adhering to specimen P so that non-specific transfer does not occur.
  • non-adhering coating C is used on conical surface
  • Rim 33 with non-adhering coating C thereon prevents non-specific transfer.
  • low temperature melt film F has been exposed to plasma at band B. Such exposure enables band B to be wettable.
  • non-adhering coating C appears as a band about conical surface 30.
  • the reader will understand that the foregoing specification is exemplary. We show a single coating.
  • the coating could be a laminate, or even multiple coatings. Further, from what has been previously addressed, the most important aspect of this invention is the use of the hard coating over the convention film, such as EVA.
  • the method or material used for the coating may widely vary.

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Un film fondu à basse température tel qu'un EVA est élaboré en vue d'une microdissection à capture laser, par la mise en place d'un revêtement mince ne collant pas à l'échantillon, d'une épaisseur de 0,1 % à 10 % de l'épaisseur totale du film, sur la face du film qui est exposée à l'échantillon. Lorsque le film est mis en contact avec l'échantillon, le revêtement ne collant pas à l'échantillon empêche un transfert non spécifique dû à une adhérence par collage de parties de l'échantillon. Le revêtement non collant situé sur la surface du film fondu à basse température permet en même temps de stabiliser et de protéger le film fondu à basse température contre des variations de performance dues à des variations de l'humidité et de la température ambiantes. Après chauffage approprié en vue d'une microdissection à capture laser, la barrière du revêtement mince permet une fusion classique du film sans inhiber l'adhérence de zones cellulaires sélectionnées au film. On forme des revêtements sur la surface de film fondu à basse température (EVA) à des emplacements sélectionnés en appliquant une matière filmogène à partir d'une solution à base de solvant volatil, cette étape étant suivie d'une évaporation du solvant. La solution de revêtement peut être appliquée par pulvérisation, par immersion, ou en ajoutant des volumes exacts à une surface à l'aide d'une micropipette. On peut revêtir des surfaces plates en répandant un volume mesuré de solution sur les surfaces. L'épaisseur du revêtement peut être réglée par le volume et par la concentration de matières solides de revêtement ajoutées à une zone connue.
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