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AU2016402370B2
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Abstract

A method including contacting a tissue or cellular sample with a reagent including an evaporation reducing agent(s) having the general formula X

Description

METHODS TO REDUCE EVAPORATION DURING ELEVATED TEMPERATURE
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION The application is a non-provisional application claiming the benefit of the earlier filing date of co-pending U.S. Patent Application No. 14/701,043, filed April 15, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference.
FIELD
Assay reagent.
BACKGROUND
Immunohistochemical assays and assay techniques based on in situ hybridization are widely used in medical diagnostics such as to diagnose abnormal cells such as those found in cancerous tumors or to diagnose another disease. Many assays involve the addition of heat to the sample, such as to a sample in a reagent on a slide. Assay steps at elevated temperatures can cause substantial evaporation of assay reagents. When small volumes are used, sample denaturation, hybridization, wash and aging steps and the resulting assay can be compromised by evaporation.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
A reagent and a method of use of a reagent including an evaporation reducing agent in an aqueous solution operable to reduce evaporation of the reagent in processing of a tissue or cellular sample is disclosed. Representative processing for which a reagent as described finds use include, but are not limited to, dewaxing, cell conditioning/antigen retrieval/cell aging, peroxide/phosphatase block, probe denature, probe hybridization, washing, linker hybridization, antibody incubation, probe detection, chromogen precipitation and counterstain involving an elevated temperature step (e.g. an elevated temperature step in an in situ hybridization procedure). The solution can representatively be used in
denaturation, wash or hybridization steps of a nucleic acid (single or double stranded probe) hybridization assay or in an incubation, antigen retrieval or a wash step using an antibody in immunohistochemical or immunocytochemical staining. A suitable reagent may include other components such as a detergent/surfactant which helps with solution spreading in a hybridization solution reagent. In one embodiment, a suitable amount of an evaporation reducing agent in a reagent operable for tissue or cellular processing is an amount that will limit a loss of the reagent due to evaporation to 20 percent or less under industry acceptable reagent processing conditions such as subjecting a hybridization solution to an elevated temperature between 25°C and 50°C for 10 minutes to 24 hours (e.g., a hybridization or incubation process) or to an elevated temperature of between 60°C and 100°C for two to ninety minutes (e.g., a denaturing or antigen retrieval process). In one embodiment, a suitable amount of an evaporation reducing agent is in the range of 11 percent to 60 percent by volume of a regent composition (e.g., solution).
In one embodiment, a reagent (composition) includes an effective evaporation reducing amount of an evaporation reducing agent comprising the formula of General Formula I:
Xi- R - X2,
wherein R is an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl or an aromatic moiety of one or more carbon atoms (e.g., one to six carbon atoms in one embodiment and one to four carbon atoms in another embodiment where it is appreciated that if R is a moiety of one carbon, R is an alkyl) that may be substituted with oxygen atom, sulfur atom and/or or nitrogen atom (e.g., -OH, - SH, or - H2 is substituted for a hydrogen atom of one or more hydrocarbons defining the alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aromatic) or that may be interrupted with an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom and/or a nitrogen atom (e.g., -C-0-C-, -C-SH-C-, -C- H-C-). An alkyl moiety is an alkane containing open points of attachment for connection for X1 and X2. An alkenyl moiety is an alkene containing open points of attachment for connection for X1 and X2. An alkynyl moiety is an alkyne containing open points of attachment for connection to Xi and X2. Representative alkyls include straight or branched chain alkyls (e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl) which may or may not be further substituted. Representative alkenyls include straight or branched chain alkenyls (e.g., ethenyl, propenyl, isopropenyl).
Representative alkynyls include straight or branched chain alkynyls which may or may not be further substituted (e.g., ethynyl, propynyl, isopropynyl). An aromatic moiety is an unsaturated ring of atoms that is stabilized by an interaction of the bonds forming the ring. An example of an aromatic moiety is benzyl. Examples of interrupted aromatic moieties are pyridine (interrupted with a nitrogen atom); furan (interrupted with an oxygen atom); and thiophene (interrupted with a sulfur atom).
Xi and X2 in General Formula I are independently selected to be a moiety where one or both are susceptible to hydrogen bonding and/or contains an electronegative atom. Representative moieties for X1 and X2 will include functional groups that are capable of hydrogen bonding such as but not limited to hydroxyl moieties (-OH); carbonyl moieties (- CO); amine moieties (- H2); aldehyde moieties (-CHO); halogen moieties (-Y, where Y is CI", F", Br" or Γ); ether moieties (-OR1, where R1 is an alkyl (e.g., an alkyl of one to six carbon atoms) that may be substituted with a moiety that is susceptible or capable of hydrogen bonding and/or contains an electronegative atom); carboxyl moieties (-COOR2, where R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl (e.g., an alkyl of one to six carbon atoms) that may be substituted with a moiety that is susceptible or capable of hydrogen bonding and/or contains an electronegative atom); and amide moieties (-CO R R4, where R3 and R4 are independently selected from a hydrogen atom or an alkyl (e.g., an alkyl of one to six carbon atoms) that may be substituted with a moiety that is susceptible or capable of hydrogen bonding and/or contains an electronegative atom). Representative of substitution moieties that are susceptible or capable of hydrogen bonding for the noted alkyls associated with ether, carboxyl and amide moieties for X1 and X2 (R1, R2, R3 and R4) include hydroxyl, carbonyl, amine, aldehyde, halogen, ether, carboxyl and amide moieties.
Examples of suitable evaporation reducing agents having General Formula I include ethylene glycol, glycine, serine, isoethionic acid, ethanolamine, polyethylene glycol and 1,3 -propanediol. In one embodiment, R is not substituted or interrupted. Representative of an evaporation reducing agent where R is not substituted or interrupted is ethylene glycol (HO(CH2)2OH) where R is ethyl and each of Xi and X2 is a hydroxyl moiety. An example of an evaporation reducing agent where X2 is a primary amide that is further substituted with a moiety susceptible or capable of hydrogen bonding is H2N-(CH2)3- H(CH2)2COOH, where R is -(CH2) -; Xi is - H2 and X2 is - H(CH2)2COOH. In one embodiment, a suitable reagent includes one or more evaporation reducing agents having the formula of General Formula I (e.g., a reagent includes a combination of two or three evaporation reducing agents and having the formula of General Formula I).
An evaporation reducing agent may be in a molecular free form (a molecule) or an acceptable salt thereof (a compound) or ionic liquid. An example of a salt is a hydrohalide salt of the molecule such as a hydrochloride salt.
In one embodiment, an evaporation reducing agent as a solute reduces the vapor pressure of a solution upon its mixing with one or more other reagents. Such solute could be a molecule, an ionic salt, an ionic liquid, a non-ionic agent that may exhibit complete or partial solubility or miscibility with water and is capable of reducing a partial pressure of an aqueous solution to which it is mixed or otherwise introduced. Additionally, an evaporation reducing agent may or may not form an azeotropic mixture with water. If an evaporation reducing agent does form an azeotropic mixture with water, the solute, in one embodiment, forms a negative azeotrope with water.
Generally speaking, when a solvent and a solute are mixed in this context, a resulting chemical potential of the solvent is lowered so that a partial pressure of the solvent molecules is reduced and, relative to a solvent-only solution, has a reduced tendency to transition into gas phase. Representatively, a partial pressure of water in an aqueous solution where a solute is a nonvolatile evaporation reducing agent will be reduced which would result in elevation of a boiling point of the mixture as well as a reduction in evaporation at the surface.
Hydrogen bonding can occur when in a molecule, a hydrogen atom is attached to an electronegative atom such as an oxygen, nitrogen or fluorine atom and the molecule comes in proximity with an electropositive atom. The electrostatic attraction of this nature has a strength on the order of 5-30kJ/mol which is stronger than Van der Waals attraction but weaker than covalent or ionic bonding.
In one embodiment, an evaporation reducing agent is mixed as a solute with water to reduce a vapor pressure of the water by creating a solution where a partial pressure of the water is reduced such that an assay (e.g., an immunohistologic assay) can be carried out more efficiently than if the partial pressure was not lowered. In one embodiment, a solute is selected such that there is no or minimum residue left behind which may interfere with an assay known to a person skilled in the art,
In one embodiment, a reagent operable for use in processing a cellular or tissue sample is prepared by combining a base reagent and an evaporation reducing agent.
Additional components may also be combined in a suitable composition. The reagent can be added to an aqueous buffer solution to reduce evaporation during elevated temperatures. In one embodiment, the evaporation reducing agent is combined in an amount to limit any loss of the combination due to evaporation to 20 percent or less and, in another embodiment, to 10 percent or less. Representatively, an evaporation reducing agent or combination of reducing agents is/are present in a composition in an amount between 11 percent and 60 percent by volume or an amount between 1 percent and 60 percent of the reducing agent is a non-glycol- containing compound or a combination of reducing agents. Following a combination of a base reagent, evaporation reducing agent and any other components, the composition may be mixed.
In one embodiment, a method operable in processing of a paraffin-free or deparaffinized tissue or cellular sample for use in an assay at an elevated temperature is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is operable to reduce evaporation of any aqueous based processing reagent. The method includes contacting a tissue or cellular sample with a reagent including an evaporation reducing agent (e.g., as a solute) having the formula of General Formula I:
Xi- R - X2.
Such contact includes applying the reagent to a sample on a slide. Following contacting the sample with the reagent, the sample may be processed according to techniques known in the art.
In one embodiment, a method operable in processing of a paraffin-free or deparaffinized tissue or cellular sample for use in an assay at an elevated temperature is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is operable to reduce evaporation of any aqueous based processing reagent by adding a solute to a solvent. The resulting chemical potential of the solvent is lowered so that the partial pressure of the solvent molecules is reduced and they have lesser tendency to turn into gas phase. Partial pressure of water in an aqueous solution where solute is a nonvolatile substance is reduced which would result in elevation of boiling point as well as reduction in evaporation at the surface.
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Example 1 : Volume loss due to evaporation during oligonucleotide hybridization at different hybridization temperatures.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution (reagent) was applied to each of six sample slides and the slides were individually heated to different temperatures for 30 minutes. It was observed that evaporation occurred on the slide with hybridization solution during the hybridization step.
Table 1. Effect of temperature on evaporation
Example 2: Reducing evaporation during oligonucleotide hybridization by different reagents.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution (reagent) with different evaporation reducing agents was applied to respective sample slides and heated to 43° C for 30 minutes. One sample slide included a hybridization solution with no evaporation reducing agent. It was observed that a significantly greater evaporation of the hybridization solution occurred with the sample slide containing a hybridization solution without an evaporation reducing agent during the 43° C hybridization step but was reduced with the addition of an evaporation reducing agent.
Table 2. Ability of added agent to hybridization
solution rea ent to reduce eva oration
Example 3 : Reducing evaporation using different concentrations of ethylene glycol during hybridization.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution (reagent) having different concentrations of an evaporation reducing agent of ethylene glycol was applied to respective sample slides and heated to 43° C for 30 minutes. For comparison, 400 μΐ of hybridization solution without ethylene glycol was also applied to a sample slide and heated to 43° C for 30 minutes. It was observed that evaporation was reduced with the addition of ethylene glycol to the
hybridization solution. The assay performance for the hybridization solution containing ethylene glycol was found to be similar to hybridization solution without ethylene glycol.
Table 3. Reduction in volume loss in % ethylene glycol (EG)
in hybridization solution
Comparison to Starting Volume
27% 400 10 2%
33% 400 0 0%
40% 400 0 0%
Example 4: Reproducibility in reducing evaporation volume loss during hybridization.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution with specific concentrations of an evaporation reducing agent of ethylene glycol was applied to each sample slide and heated to 43° C for 30 minutes. For comparison, 400 μΐ of hybridization solution was applied to each sample slide and heated to 43°C for 30 minutes. It was observed that evaporation was reduced with the addition of ethylene glycol to the hybridization solution.
Table 4 Reduction in eva oration due to addition of eth lene l col
Example 5 : Reduction in evaporation during denaturation.
About 400 μΐ of hybridization solution with an evaporation reducing agent of 20 percent ethylene glycol was applied to each sample slide and heated to 92 - 98° C for 2 minutes. For comparison, about 400 μΐ of hybridization solution without ethylene glycol was applied to each sample slide and heated to 92 - 98° C for 2 minutes. It was observed that evaporation was reduced with the addition of ethylene glycol to the hybridization solution. Table 5. Reduction in evaporation with addition of ethylene glycol to hybridization solution durin denaturation.
Example 6: Reduction in evaporation during antibody incubation step.
About 400 μΐ of primary antibody diluent (reagent) with an evaporation reducing agent of 20 percent ethylene glycol was applied to each sample slide and incubated at a specific temperature for 30 minutes. For comparison, about 400 μΐ of primary antibody diluent without ethylene glycol was applied to each sample slide and incubated at a specific temperature for 30 minutes. It was observed that evaporation was reduced with the addition of ethylene glycol to the antibody diluent.
Table 6. Reduction in evaporation with addition of ethylene glycol to antibody diluent
Example 7: Reducing evaporation during oligonucleotide hybridization by different reagents.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution with different evaporation reducing agents was applied to respective sample slides and heated to 43 °C for 30 minutes. A hybridization solution containing no evaporation reducing agent was also applied to a sample slide. It was observed that evaporation occurred in the slide with hybridization solution during the 43°C hybridization step but was reduced with the addition of specific reagent.
Table 7. Ability of added evaporation reducing agent to
h bridization solution to reduce eva oration
Example 8: Reducing evaporation using ethylene glycol during hybridization at different temperatures.
400 μΐ of hybridization solution (reagent) with ethylene glycol was applied to respective sample slides and heated to 35, 37 or 40° C for 120 minutes. For comparison, 400 μΐ of hybridization solution without ethylene glycol was also applied to a sample slide and heated to 40° C for 120 minutes. It was observed that evaporation was reduced with the addition of ethylene glycol to the hybridization solution. The assay performance for the hybridization solution containing ethylene glycol at different hybridization temperatures was found to be similar to hybridization solution without ethylene glycol.
Hybridization solution
Chemical Final cone.
SSC 2 x
Tris-HCl 10 mM
Dextran sulfate 10 %
Denhardt's solution 2 x
Tween 0.05 %
Triton 0.10 %
Salmon sperm DNA 50 μ^ιηΐ Chemical Final cone.
Evaporation reducing agent varied
water varied
Primary antibody diluent
Chemical Final cone.
Sodium Azide 0.05%
Sodium Chloride 300 mM
Sodium Phosphate Dibasic 8 mM
Potassium Phosphate monobasic 2 mM
Green Color Dye 0.025%
BSA Powder 1%
Tris Base 10 mM
Tris HC1 40 mM
Tween 0.05%
Triton 0.1%
Evaporation reducing agent varied
water varied
In the description above, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details have been set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments. It will be apparent however, to one skilled in the art, that one or more other embodiments may be practiced without some of these specific details. The particular embodiments described are not provided to limit the invention but to illustrate it. The scope of the invention is not to be determined by the specific examples provided above but only by the claims below. In other instances, well-known structures, devices, and operations have been shown in block diagram form or without detail in order to avoid obscuring the understanding of the description. Where considered appropriate, reference numerals or terminal portions of reference numerals have been repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements, which may optionally have similar characteristics.
It should also be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment", "an embodiment", "one or more embodiments", or "different embodiments", for example, means that a particular feature may be included in the practice of the invention. Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the description various features are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure and aiding in the understanding of various inventive aspects. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects may lie in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of the invention.

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1. A method comprising:
contacting a tissue or cellular sample with at least one evaporation reducing agent having the general formula:
Xi - R - X2,
wherein R is an alkyl moiety, alkenyl moiety, alkynyl moiety or aromatic moiety that may be substituted or interrupted with an oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom and Xi and X2 are independently selected to be moiety that comprises an electronegative atom or is susceptible to hydrogen bonding and wherein the at least one reagent is present in an amount of one percent or greater when the at least one reagent is a non-glycol-containing reagent or a combination of more than one reagent or an amount of 11 percent by volume or greater when the at least one reagent is a glycol-containing reagent; and
processing the tissue or cellular sample.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaporation reducing agent is present in an amount up to 60 percent by volume.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises an elevated temperature.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises a hybridization.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises a dehybridization.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises a wash step.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises an antigen binding.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises an antigen retrieval, cell conditioning or cell aging.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein Xi and X2 are independently selected such that at least one contains one or more from group consisting of hydroxyl moieties, carbonyl moieties, amine moieties, aldehyde moieties, halogen moieties, ether moieties, carboxyl moieties and amide moieties.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein X1 and X2 are independently selected to include at least a moiety selected from the group consisting of -OH, -CHO, -OR1, - H2, -COOR2 and - CONH2, wherein R1 is an alkyl and R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein R is an alkyl comprising two or more carbon atoms of which one or more may or may not be substituted with O, N or S.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the reagent comprises ethylene glycol.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the reagent comprises glycine, serine, isoethionic acid, ethanolamine, glycerol, polyethylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol or combination of agents.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the reagent contains a detergent or surfactant.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the reagent comprises a combination of evaporation reducing agents.
16. A reagent operable for use in processing of a tissue or cellular sample, the reagent comprising an evaporation reducing agent present in an amount of one percent or greater when the at least one reagent is a non-glycol-containing reagent or a combination of more than one reagent or an amount of 11 percent by volume when the at least one reagent is a glycol-containing reagent or greater having the general formula:
Xi - R - X2
wherein R is an alkyl moiety, alkenyl moiety or alkynyl moiety that may be substituted or interrupted with an oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom and Xi and X2 are independently selected to be a moiety that comprises an electronegative atom or is susceptible to hydrogen bonding.
17. The reagent of claim 16, wherein the evaporation reducing agent is present in an amount up to 60 percent by volume.
18. The reagent of claim 16, wherein X1 and X2 are independently selected so that at least one contains one or more from group of hydroxyl moieties, carbonyl moieties, amine moieties, aldehyde moieties, halogen moieties, ether moieties, carboxyl moieties and amide moieties.
19. The reagent of claim 16 comprises a detergent or surfactant.
20. The reagent of claim 16 comprises a combination of evaporation reducing agents.
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