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  • Microbiology
  • Biotechnology
  • Analytical Chemistry

Background:

  • Current single-cell analysis technologies face trade-offs in throughput, resolution, and cell viability, hindering function-driven microbial bioprospecting.
  • Developing advanced platforms is crucial for overcoming these limitations and enabling efficient microbial discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate MicroSD-RFFS, a novel platform integrating microfluidic static droplet arrays, Raman spectral fingerprinting, and functional sorting.
  • To overcome throughput, resolution, and cell viability limitations in single-cell microbial analysis.
  • To enable efficient function-driven microbial discovery from complex environments.

Main Methods:

  • MicroSD-RFFS platform combines blade-assisted droplet generation for high-throughput encapsulation, static droplet arrays on aluminum foil chips for high-resolution spectral acquisition, and substrate-induced replica plating for culture-compatible sorting.
  • A dual-biomarker strategy using D2O-tolerant C-D band ratio (CDRcal) for functional activity and Raman fingerprinting for strain identification was employed.
  • An optimized dimensionality reduction method (SVD-based) and discriminant models were integrated for efficient data analysis and discrimination.

Main Results:

  • The platform achieved high-throughput encapsulation (720 droplets/chip in 3s) and high-resolution spectral acquisition (5s/cell at 5mW).
  • Six phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) strains were efficiently isolated and identified from complex soil communities with high discrimination probability (min. 0.979) and low reconstruction error (10^-26 to 10^-28).
  • Functional traits were accurately ranked using CDRcal, consistent with conventional assays and outperforming traditional multivariate analysis.

Conclusions:

  • MicroSD-RFFS provides an efficient, robust, and cost-effective platform for function-driven microbial discovery at the single-cell level.
  • The integrated approach overcomes key limitations of existing single-cell analysis technologies.
  • This platform facilitates the isolation and identification of functional microbes from complex environmental samples.