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Abstract
Cancer Research
Exploring Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism of Single 3D Microtissue Spheroids Using Extracellular Flux Analysis
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Three-dimensional (3D) cellular aggregates, termed spheroids, have become the forefront of in vitro cell culture in recent years. In contrast to culturing cells as two-dimensional, single-cell monolayers (2D culture), spheroid cell culture promotes, regulates, and supports physiological cellular architecture and characteristics that exist in vivo, including the expression of extracellular matrix proteins, cell signaling, gene expression, protein production, differentiation, and proliferation. The importance of 3D culture has been recognized in many research fields, including oncology, diabetes, stem cell biology, and tissue engineering. Over the last decade, improved methods have been developed to produce spheroids and assess their metabolic function and fate.
Extracellular flux (XF) analyzers have been used to explore mitochondrial function in 3D microtissues such as spheroids using either an XF24 islet capture plate or an XFe96 spheroid microplate. However, distinct protocols and the optimization of probing mitochondrial energy metabolism in spheroids using XF technology have not been described in detail. This paper provides detailed protocols for probing mitochondrial energy metabolism in single 3D spheroids using spheroid microplates with the XFe96 XF analyzer. Using different cancer cell lines, XF technology is demonstrated to be capable of distinguishing between cellular respiration in 3D spheroids of not only different sizes but also different volumes, cell numbers, DNA content and type.
The optimal mitochondrial effector compound concentrations of oligomycin, BAM15, rotenone, and antimycin A are used to probe specific parameters of mitochondrial energy metabolism in 3D spheroids. This paper also discusses methods to normalize data obtained from spheroids and addresses many considerations that should be considered when exploring spheroid metabolism using XF technology. This protocol will help drive research in advanced in vitro spheroid models.
Erratum
Erratum: Exploring Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism of Single 3D Microtissue Spheroids using Extracellular Flux AnalysisAn erratum was issued for: Exploring Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism of Single 3D Microtissue Spheroids using Extracellular Flux Analysis. The Representative Results section was updated.
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Figure 5: Single or sequential injection of mitochondrial respiratory compounds. Cancer-cell-derived spheroids of MCF-7, HEPG2/C3A, SK-OV-3, and A549 were placed into wells of an XFe96 spheroid microplate in XF RPMI and probed for OCR using the Agilent Seahorse XFe96 analyzer. OCR was measured 5x, after which 2 µg/mL oligomycin (injection Port A: green trace) or 5 µM BAM15 (injection Port A: blue trace or injection port B: green trace) to inhibit the mitochondrial ATP synthase and determine maximal respiratory capacity, respectively. Kinetic OCR data are expressed as % basal (A-D). Maximal respiratory capacity (OCRmax) was calculated as a factor of basal OCR by the equation: OCRmax = OCRBAM15 / OCRbasal. OCRmax was obtained from OCR averages across measurement cycles 8-10 post BAM15 injection with (green bars) and without (blue bars) oligomycin. Data are averages ± SEM from 3-8 individual well replicates across the spheroid assay microplate. Abbreviations: OCR = oxygen consumption rate. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
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Figure 5: Single or sequential injection of mitochondrial respiratory compounds. Cancer-cell-derived spheroids of MCF-7, HEPG2/C3A, SK-OV-3, and A549 were placed into wells of an XFe96 spheroid microplate in XF RPMI and probed for OCR using the Agilent Seahorse XFe96 analyzer. OCR was measured 5x, after which 2 µg/mL oligomycin (injection Port A: green trace) or 5 µM BAM15 (injection Port A: blue trace or injection port B: green trace) to inhibit the mitochondrial ATP synthase and determine maximal respiratory capacity, respectively. Kinetic OCR data are expressed as % basal (A-D). Maximal respiratory capacity (OCRmax) was calculated as a factor of basal OCR by the equation: OCRmax = OCRBAM15 / OCRbasal. OCRmax was obtained from OCR averages across measurement cycles 8-10 post BAM15 injection with (green bars) and without (blue bars) oligomycin. Data are averages ± SEM from 3-8 individual well replicates across the spheroid assay microplate. Abbreviations: OCR = oxygen consumption rate. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
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