Effects of extracellular medium conductivity on cell response in the context of sub-microsecond range calcium electroporation.

Autor: Novickij V; Institute of High Magnetic Fields, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania. vitalij.novickij@vgtu.lt.; Department of Electrical Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania. vitalij.novickij@vgtu.lt., Rembialkowska N; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland., Staigvila G; Institute of High Magnetic Fields, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania.; Department of Electrical Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania., Kulbacka J; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland. julita.kulbacka@umed.wroc.pl.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2020 Feb 28; Vol. 10 (1), pp. 3718. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 28.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60789-7
Abstrakt: In the present study, we report the effects of extracellular medium conductivity on cell response in the context of sub-microsecond range (100 ns-900 ns) electroporation, calcium electroporation and cell size. The effects of 25 ns and microsecond range (100 μs) pulses were also covered. As a model, three different cancer cell lines of various size (C32, MCF-7/DX and MC38/0) were used and the results indicated different size-dependent susceptibility patterns to the treatment. The applied pulsed electric field (PEF) protocols revealed a significant decrease of cell viability when calcium electroporation was used. The dependence of calcium ion transport and finally the anticancer effect on the external medium conductivity was determined. It was shown that small differences in conductivity do not alter viability significantly, however, mostly affect the permeabilization. At the same, MC38/0 cell line was the least susceptible to calcium electroporation, while the C32 line the most. In all cases calcium electroporation was mostly dependent on the sensitivity of cells to electroporation and could not be effectively improved by the increase of CaCl 2 concentration from 2 mM to 5 mM. Lastly, sub-microsecond PEF stimulated aquaporin-4 and VDAC1/Porin immunoreactions in all treated cells lines, which indicated that cell water balance is affected, ions exchange is increased and release of mitochondrial products is occurrent.
Databáze: MEDLINE