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Description
O2 calibration is the calibration in DatLab of the oxygen sensor. It is a prerequisite for obtaining accurate measurements of respiration. Accurate calibration of the oxygen sensor depends on (1) equilibration of the incubation medium with air oxygen partial pressure at the temperature defined by the experimenter; (2) zero oxygen calibration; (3) high stability of the POS signal tested for sufficiently long periods of time; (4) linearity of signal output with oxygen pressure in the range between oxygen saturation and zero oxygen pressure; and (5) accurate oxygen solubility for aqueous solutions for the conversion of partial oxygen pressure into oxygen concentration. The standard oxygen calibration procedure is described below for high-resolution respirometry with the automatic calibration routine by DatLab.^
Reference: MiPNet06.03 POS-calibration-SOP, MiPNet12.20_O2k-calibration_tutorial
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Oxygen calibration - general description
- DatLab converts the oxygen signal of the polarographic oxygen sensor (OroborPOS or POS) to oxygen concentration during calibration comprising an air calibration (R1) and a zero calibration (R0).
- Appropriate calibration conditions are obtained in the O2k-chamber at experimental temperature.
- R1 and R0 are marked on the (blue) plot of oxygen concentration.
- The marks for R1 and R0 are pulled down in the O2 calibration window of DatLab.
- Click on Calibrate and copy to clipboard before closing the calibration window.
- Frequently, assumed hardware problems turn out to be a simple calibration problem.
- Air saturation is achieved by stirring the aqueous medium in contact with air in the O2k-chamber without sample.
- Add incubation medium into the chambers with an excess volume of at least 0.1 mL above the experimental chamber volume (2 mL or 0.5 mL) in order to fill the O2k-chamber and injection capillary of the stopper when it is fully inserted (closed). The volume does not have to be accurate, as long as it is above the minimum volume. Switch on the stirrers either during or after addition of the medium.
- Insert the stoppers slowly to their volume-calibrated position. Suck off excess medium ejected through the injection capillary and remaining in the well of the stopper. Then lift the stoppers using the stopper-spacer tool, leaving a gas volume above the liquid phase for final air equilibration - Open chamber position. The central level of the gas phase remains above the rotating stirrer bar, preventing bubbles and foam from being formed which would block gas exchange. To ensure a well defined pO2 in the gas phase, the gas volume has to be renewed (exchanged for air), if the medium was originally not near air saturation. This is achieved simply by fully inserting and re-opening the stopper. Equilibration is a slow process: stability should be reached within one hour (figure to the right). A stirrer test [F9] is performed early during equilibration.
- After stabilization of the POS signal, the recorded signal at air saturation, R1, is about 1-3 V (at Gain 1) and a temperature of 25-37 Β°C. A signal of 1 V corresponds to a signal current of the POS of 1 Β΅A (corresponding to 2 V at Gain 2). Under all experimental conditions, the raw signal must be <10 V. Continue recording for 3-10 min to check for signal stability. You may proceed at this point with an O2 background test (see below).
- Zero oxygen calibration may be achieved by chemical or biological depletion of oxygen. (1) Chemical: Following chamber assembly or exchange of the POS membrane, zero solution (Na-dithionite, OroboPOS-Service Kit) is titrated into the chamber, which is part of the automatic TIP2k-supported instrumental background test (MiPNet14.06). (2) Biological: Zero calibration can be performed with mitochondria or cell suspensions that allow complete oxygen depletion.
Air calibration in DatLab
- 1. Select Graph layout:
- Go to menu Layout, check O2 and from Standard layouts select 01 Calibration show Temp.
This is typically the first layout used after switching on the O2k. Oxygen concentration (blue plots, left Y-axis) and O2 slope (not corrected for instrumental background; red plots, right Y-axis) are displayed on the top graph (left O2k-chamber), and middle graph (right O2k-chamber). The third graph (bottom) shows the block temperature on the left Y axis and the Peltier power on the right Y axis. Only when both temperature and Peltier power are constant, the chambers have reached thermal equilibrium. The next step is to observe equilibration of the oxygen signal with a defined gas phase above the stirred aqueous phase ('open' chamber; usually with air as the first step) to perform an oxygen calibration.
- 2. Mark
- Mark a section of the experiment at air saturation, when signal stability is reached. This should be done real-time to save default calibration information. Corrections are possible after disconnecting from the O2k. For calibration, follow steps (1) to (5):
- Select a graph by a click (left mouse button) into the graph or directly by step 2.
- Select the oxygen signal as the active plot by a click on Y1 in the figure legend on the right of the graph. The active plot is highlighted.
- Only if Mouse Control: Zoom mode has been activated: Select Mouse Control: Mark in the Graph menu or press [Ctrl+M].
- Set a mark: Hold [Shift] and click the left mouse button, move the cursor along the time axis, release the left mouse button at the end of the section to be marked. Remove a section of the mark or the total mark: Move the cursor with [Shift+right-click] along the time axis, release the mouse button at the end of the section of the mark to be deleted.
- Rename the mark: Left mouse click on the bar of the mark. Rename the mark for air calibration as βR1β (and the mark for zero calibration as βR0β).
- 3. Calibrate
- Open the DatLab calibration window by double clicking on O2 calib. for O2k-chamber A or B in the O2k-status line (bottom left and right). Alternatively, press [F5] to open the calibration window for the active plot.
- Left click on the pull down button and select the appropriate mark R1. The average voltage (Raw signal [V]) recorded over the marked section is shown in the corresponding field on the right. The corresponding signal stability is displayed as the uncorrected negative slope of the signal during calibration in [pmol/(sΒ.mL)]. Temperature and barometric pressure are displayed as measured over the marked section. Calibration values R1 and R0 can be edited numerically, without exerting an influence on c1. If temperature or barometric pressure are edited, then c1 is recalculated for the changed conditions.
- If not set previously, enter the oxygen solubility factor of the medium, FM, relative to pure water. For more info on this factor: MiPNet06.03 POS-calibration-SOP. For documentation purposes, enter the name of the experimental incubation medium in the coresponding field.
- Left click on Calibrate and copy to clipboard. After clicking on this button all changes in the entire calibration window are applied. The entire plot of oxygen concentration is re-calibrated [Β΅M = nmol/mL], and the corresponding negative slope or volume-specific oxygen flux [pmol/(s.mL)] is now based on this new calibration. Click on Calibrate and copy to clipboard before closing the calibration window. Thereby, calibration is activated and calibration parameters are automatically copied to clipboard for entry into the spreadsheet "O2 calibration.xlsx".
Zero calibration in DatLab
- 1. Mark
- Mark a section of the experiment after full depletion of oxygen, when signal stability is reached. This should be done real-time to save default calibration information. Corrections are possible after disconnecting from the O2k. For calibration, follow steps (1) to (5):
- Select a graph by a click (left mouse button) into the graph or directly by step 2.
- Select the oxygen signal as the active plot by a click on Y1 in the figure legend on the right of the graph. The active plot is highlighted.
- Only if Mouse Control: Zoom mode has been activated: Select Mouse Control: Mark in the Graph menu or press [Ctrl+M].
- Set a mark: Hold [Shift] and click the left mouse button, move the cursor along the time axis, release the left mouse button at the end of the section to be marked. Remove a section of the mark or the total mark: Move the cursor with [Shift+right-click] along the time axis, release the mouse button at the end of the section of the mark to be deleted.
- Rename the mark: Left mouse click on the bar of the mark. Rename the mark for air calibration as βR0β.
- 2. Calibrate
- Open the DatLab calibration window by double clicking on O2 calib. for O2k-chamber A or B in the O2k-status line (bottom left and right). Alternatively, press [F5] to open the calibration window for the active plot.
- Left click on the pull down button and select the appropriate mark R0. Many times the zero calibration value is used from a previous experiment. The displayed temperature and pressure are without influence on the calibration calculations for zero oxygen. The stable zero signal, R0, should be <2 % of the signal at air saturation, but <5 % is acceptable. Most importantly, the zero signal must be stable. The average voltage (Raw signal [V]) recorded over the marked section is shown in the corresponding field on the right. The corresponding signal stability is displayed as the uncorrected negative slope of the signal during calibration in [pmol/(sΒ.mL)]. Temperature and barometric pressure are displayed as measured over the marked section. Calibration values R1 and R0 can be edited numerically, without exerting an influence on c1. If temperature or barometric pressure are edited, then c1 is recalculated for the changed conditions.
- If not set previously, enter the oxygen solubility factor of the medium, FM, relative to pure water. For more info on this factor: MiPNet06.03 POS-calibration-SOP. For documentation purposes, enter the name of the experimental incubation medium in the coresponding field.
- Left click on Calibrate and copy to clipboard. After clicking on this button all changes in the entire calibration window are applied. The entire plot of oxygen concentration is re-calibrated [Β΅M = nmol/mL], and the corresponding negative slope or volume-specific oxygen flux [pmol/(s.mL)] is now based on this new calibration. Calibration parameters are automatically copied to clipboard for entry into the spreadsheet "O2 calibration.xlsx".
DatLab calibration: real-time vs. disconnected
- DatLab uses calibration values applied real-time (connected to the O2k, recording data) as default values for future experiments. When calibration values are edited in the disconnected mode, they apply only to the current file and will not be used as a new default in experiments. This allows to re-calibrate old files without overwriting the current default values for calibration. Ideally, calibration values that should be used as new defaults are applied real-time when the experiment is still running. If the DatLab-calibration is performed after disconnecting, these calibration parameters can be read into other DatLab files using the "Copy from file" function and "Calibrate and copy to clipboard".
- Before disconnecting the O2k from DatLab, calibration information is automatically saved and available upon re-connecting the O2k, even if you exit DatLab and start the program again. The current calibration parameters are displayed when opening the O2 calibration window [F5].
Calibration and quality control
- The POS sensor test
- About 20 min are required for approximate air equilibration after temperature equilibration of the incubation medium.
- Even before final equilibration, perform a stirrer test [F9], switching both stirrers automatically off for 30 s.
- Quality control a: Upon automatic re-start of the stirrer (On), the increase of the oxygen signal should be rapid and monoexponential (see Fig. right, label a)
- Quality control b: The raw signal (blue plot; 1 V = 1 Β΅A at Gain 1) should be close to 1 to 3 V at 25 to 37 Β°C at sea level up to 1000 m (pb 101 to 90 kPa). At Gain setting of 2 the raw signal [V] is multiplied by 2.
- Within 40 min, the oxygen signals should be stable with O2 slope (uncorrected) close to zero. Quality control label c: Signal noise should be low, reflected in a noise of the O2 slope (red plot) within Β±2 (Β±4 is acceptable) pmol/(sβmL) at a data recording interval of 2 s and 40 data points selected for calculation of the slope.
- Set a mark on the oxygen signal (R1) and click on O2 Calib. to open the DatLab O2 calibration. Quality control label d: The slope uncorrected should be within Β±1 pmol/sβmL) averaged across the section of the experiment marked as R1 for air calibration (d). The recorded POS signal should be close to the previous calibration under identical experimental conditions. See O2-Calibration window (see Fig. right, label label bβ).
- Continue with an instrumental O2 background test and perform a zero oxygen calibration. Quality control label label e: The zero signal at mark R0 for zero calibration should be <2 % of R1 (stable at <5 % is acceptable).
O2-sensor test: when?
- An O2-sensor test should be performed:
- After switching on the O2k, every day: air calibration, stirrer test, quality control (Calibration and quality control).
- Zero oxygen calibration: from time to time over weeks; bracketing zero oxygen calibrations when working at low oxygen (Zero calibration).
- After application of a new membrane and O2-sensor service: in some cases, the signal of the OroboPOS improves (higher signal stability, less noise, shorter response time), when the O2k remains switched on over night (O2k-Chambers filled with 70 % EtOH).
- For O2k-Quality Control (O2k-QC) of instrumental performance.
- Before an O2k-chamber test (Instrumental O2 background test).
- During troubleshooting procedures, when switching components between the two chambers, a quick sensor test is performed after each step (stirrer test, sensor signal).
- Dynamic POS calibration = Calibration of the response time of the POS.
- Static POS calibration = Two-point calibration of the polarographic oxygen sensor.
Instrumental background oxygen flux - general
- Instrumental background oxygen flux derives from oxygen fluxes into or out of the respirometer chamber that are not directly related to respiratory activity of the sample. These fluxes are caused by backdiffusion into the chamber at low oxygen pressure, oxygen diffusion out of the chamber at elevated oxygen levels, and oxygen consumption by the polarographic oxygen sensor (OroboPOS). Correction for instrumental background oxygen flux is a standard in high-resolution respirometry, automatically performed by DatLab. Background measurements provide a quality control of instrument function. In the Oroboros O2k, background corrections are usually within a few % of experimental flux over the entire experimental oxygen range. At minimum activities, however, even the small background effects become significant and require compliance to standard operating procedures described here.
- Instrumental O2 background tests can be perfomed using the TIP2k or with manual injections. Detailed instructions are provided here: MiPNet14.06_Instrumental_O2_background
- Following the preparation of necessary solutions as decribed in MiPNet14.06_Instrumental_O2_background and loading and mounting of the syringes (when the TIP2k is used) the appropriate DatLab protocol should be used: DL-Protocols#DL-Protocol_collection
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O2k-Open Support cases
Erzsebet Polyak, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Question 1: We have different oxygen levels in chamber A and B.
- Question 2: In chamber A after adding dithionite the signal does not go down below 100 Β΅M.
- Answer 1: Different initial oxygen levels after switching on the instrument are due to missing calibration. Sensors need to be air calibrated on each experimental day to account for changes in barometric pressure or to accomodate changes in experimental temperature or medium.
- Answer 2: The zero voltage in chamber A is at 0.8996 V, which is too high. Zero voltage should not exceed 10 % (usually lower than 5 %) of the voltage obtained at air saturation (R1). You should perform a full POS service.
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