scholarly journals High-resolution label-free 3D mapping of extracellular pH of single living cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjun Zhang ◽  
Yasufumi Takahashi ◽  
Sung Pil Hong ◽  
Fengjie Liu ◽  
Joanna Bednarska ◽  
...  

AbstractDynamic mapping of extracellular pH (pHe) at the single-cell level is critical for understanding the role of H+ in cellular and subcellular processes, with particular importance in cancer. While several pHe sensing techniques have been developed, accessing this information at the single-cell level requires improvement in sensitivity, spatial and temporal resolution. We report on a zwitterionic label-free pH nanoprobe that addresses these long-standing challenges. The probe has a sensitivity > 0.01 units, 2 ms response time, and 50 nm spatial resolution. The platform was integrated into a double-barrel nanoprobe combining pH sensing with feedback-controlled distance dependance via Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy. This allows for the simultaneous 3D topographical imaging and pHe monitoring of living cancer cells. These classes of nanoprobes were used for real-time high spatiotemporal resolution pHe mapping at the subcellular level and revealed tumour heterogeneity of the peri-cellular environments of melanoma and breast cancer cells.

Author(s):  
Miyu Terada ◽  
Sachiko Ide ◽  
Toyohiro Naito ◽  
Niko Kimura ◽  
Michiya Matsusaki ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 133 (13) ◽  
pp. 1446-1456
Author(s):  
Satyen H. Gohil ◽  
Catherine J. Wu

Abstract We now have the potential to undertake detailed analysis of the inner workings of thousands of cancer cells, one cell at a time, through the emergence of a range of techniques that probe the genome, transcriptome, and proteome combined with the development of bioinformatics pipelines that enable their interpretation. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the heterogeneity of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and how mutations, activation states, and protein expression at the single-cell level have an impact on disease course, response to treatment, and outcomes. Herein, we review the emerging application of these new techniques to chronic lymphocytic leukemia and examine the insights already attained through this transformative technology.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e57706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ediz Sariisik ◽  
Denitsa Docheva ◽  
Daniela Padula ◽  
Cvetan Popov ◽  
Jan Opfer ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15513-e15513
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Xiaochuan Chen ◽  
Ting Lin ◽  
Zongwei Huang ◽  
Shihong Wu ◽  
...  

e15513 Background: To explore the metabolic alterations of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cells after treated with chemodrugs, the Raman profiles were characterized with laser tweezer Raman spectroscopy. Methods: Two NPC cell lines (CNE2 and C666-1) were treated with gemcitabine, cisplatin, and paclitaxel, respectively. The high-quality Raman spectra of cells without or with treatments were recorded at the single-cell level with label-free laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) and analyzed for the differences of alterations of Raman profiles. Results: Tentative assignments of Raman peaks indicated that the cellular specific biomolecular changes associated with drug treatment, including changes in protein structure (e.g. 1655 cm−1), changes in DNA content and structure (e.g. 830 cm−1), destruction of DNA base pairs (e.g. 785 cm−1), and reduction in lipids (e.g. 970 cm−1). Besides, both principal components analysis (PCA) combined with linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and the classification and regression trees (CRT) algorithms were employed to further analyze and classify the spectral data between control group and treated group, with the best discriminant accuracy of 96.7% and 90.0% for CNE2 and C666-1 group treated with paclitaxel, respectively. Conclusions: This exploratory work demonstrated that LTRS technology combined with multivariate statistical analysis has promising potential to be a novel analytical strategy at the single-cell level for the evaluation of NPC-related chemotherapeutic drugs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad Sekhavati ◽  
Max Endele ◽  
Susanne Rappl ◽  
Anna-Kristina Marel ◽  
Timm Schroeder ◽  
...  

The analysis of Brownian motion is a sensitive and robust tool for a label-free high-throughput investigation of cell differentiation at the single-cell level.


2014 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Nelson ◽  
Briony C. Strachan ◽  
Hillary S. Sloane ◽  
Jingyi Li ◽  
James P. Landers

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (13) ◽  
pp. 1583-1586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu ◽  
Fei Ma ◽  
Qianyi Zhang ◽  
Chun-yang Zhang

We develop a label-free fluorescence method for the polynucleotide kinase assay at the single-cell level based on phosphorylation-triggered isothermal exponential amplification.


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