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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1997
David C Turner, Waldorf, MD (US);
Bruce P Gaber, Bethesda, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An immobilized substrate surface is chemically modified by manipulating an nzyme which is immobilized to a solid surface. Modifications include (1) chemical dissection of a substrate surface such as by chemical hydrolysis, (2) chemical synthesis on a substrate surface, and (3) chemical patterning of a substrate surface. The enzyme may be coupled to colloidal beads or particles, locally flat solid surfaces including planar, textured planar, cylindrical and spherical surfaces or arbitrary predefined shapes, or scanning probe microscope probes. In the patterning applications, colloidal particles containing the enzyme can be confined to desired regions of the substrate surface by various techniques which control the movement of the particles. The particles can be confined to tunnels or channels in a patterned polymer mold on top of the substrate surface. The enzyme can also be immobilized onto the surface of a raised pattern and this patterned surface can then be placed in contact with the immobilized substrate.