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US 12,226,746 · App. 16/435,363 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Reversing bias in polymer synthesis electrode array

Inventors: Bichlien Nguyen (Seattle, WA); Karin Strauss (Seattle, WA); Gagan Gupta (Bellevue, WA); Richard Rouse (Redmond, WA)
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
B01J19/0046B01J19/0006B01J2219/0018B01J2219/00454B01J2219/00596B01J2219/00612B01J2219/00626B01J2219/00637B01J2219/00653B01J2219/00713B01J2219/00722B01J2219/00725
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Patent No.
US 12,226,746
App. No.
16/435,363
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Polymers synthesized by solid-phase synthesis are selectively released from a solid support by reversing the bias of spatially addressable electrodes. Change in the current and voltage direction at one or more of the spatially addressable electrodes changes the ionic environment which triggers cleavage of linkers that leads to release of the attached polymers. The spatially addressable electrodes may be implemented as CMOS inverters embedded in an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may contain an array of many thousands of spatially addressable electrodes. Control circuity may independently reverse the bias on any of the individual electrodes in the array. This provides fine-grained control of which polymers are released from the solid support. Examples of polymers that may be synthesized on this type of array include oligonucleotides and peptides.

Claims (34)

1. A method for selectively releasing polymers from a solid support comprising an array of spatially addressable electrodes, the method comprising:

synthesizing the polymers directly on the solid support or directly on linkers attached to the solid support;

reversing voltage and current on part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes, wherein the polymers separate from the solid support only at locations on the solid support corresponding to spatially addressable electrodes where voltage and current are reversed;

returning the voltage and current of the part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes to an original voltage and current; and

initiating synthesis of additional polymers on the locations on the solid support corresponding to the spatially addressable electrodes where the voltage and current were previously reversed.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the polymers comprise oligonucleotides and the synthesizing uses a phosphoramidite method or enzymatic nucleotide synthesis.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting the part of the spatially addressable electrodes based on sequences of the polymers or lengths of the polymers.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the polymers are attached to the solid support by linkers that cleave in the presence of a redox reagent when the voltage and current of a one of the spatially addressable electrodes are reversed; and

further comprising contacting the solid support with the redox reagent.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the redox reagent comprises hydroquinone or carbon dioxide.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the polymers are attached to the solid support by electrochemically cleavable linkers cleaved by a redox reaction upon addition of electrons in response to the reversing the voltage and current.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the polymers are attached to the solid support by electrochemically cleavable linkers that include at least one electrochemically cleavable bond which cleaves by oxidation or reduction in response to activation of a spatially addressable electrode.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reversing voltage and current on only a first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes without reversing voltage and current on a second part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes.

9. A method for selectively releasing polymers from a solid support comprising an array of spatially addressable electrodes, the method comprising:

synthesizing the polymers on the solid support, wherein the polymers are attached directly to the solid support by electrochemically cleavable linkers that include at least one electrochemically cleavable bond which cleaves by oxidation or reduction in response to activation an electrode; and

reversing voltage and current on only a first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes without reversing voltage and current on a second part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes, wherein the electrochemically cleavable linkers are cleaved and the polymers separate from the solid support only at the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the at least one electrochemically cleavable bond comprises an ester or amide linkage and a protected alcohol or amine.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the polymers comprise oligonucleotides and the synthesizing uses a phosphoramidite method or enzymatic nucleotide synthesis.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

returning the voltage and current of the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes to an original voltage and current; and

initiating synthesis of additional polymers on a portion of the solid support corresponding to the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes where the voltage and current were previously reversed by reuse of linkers attached to the portion of the solid support.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

selecting the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes based on sequences of the polymers or lengths of the polymers attached to the solid support at the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes.

14. A method for pipeline synthesis of polymers on a solid support comprising an array of spatially addressable electrodes, the method comprising:

synthesizing a first set of polymers directly, or directly via linkers, on a first portion of the solid support and directly, or directly via linkers, on a second portion of the solid support;

reversing voltage and current on a first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes corresponding to the first portion of the solid support, thereby releasing a portion of the first set of polymers from the first portion of the solid support and not from the second portion of the solid support;

returning the voltage and current of the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes to an original voltage and current; and

initiating synthesis of a second set of polymers at the first portion of the solid support by reuse of the linkers attached to the first portion of the solid support while the first set of polymers remains attached to the second portion of the solid support.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein initiating synthesis of the second set of polymers occurs while synthesis of the first set of polymers is ongoing.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the polymers comprise oligonucleotides and the synthesizing uses a phosphoramidite method or enzymatic nucleotide synthesis.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the polymers are attached to the solid support by electrochemically cleavable linkers that include at least one electrochemically cleavable bond which cleaves by oxidation or reduction in response to activation of a spatially addressable electrode.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the polymers are attached to the solid support by electrochemically cleavable linkers cleaved by a redox reaction upon addition of electrons in response to the reversing the voltage and current.

19. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

selecting the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes based on sequences of the first set of polymers or lengths of the first set of polymers attached to the solid support at the first part of the array of spatially addressable electrodes.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2019
From: NGUYEN, BICHLIEN; STRAUSS, KARIN; GUPTA, GAGAN; ROUSE, RICHARD
To: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
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