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Goswami 2018 Biophys J

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Goswami I, Perry JB, Allen ME, Brown DA, von Spakovsky MR, Verbridge SS (2018) Influence of pulsed electric fields and mitochondria-cytoskeleton interactions on cell respiration. Biophys J 114:2951-64.

» PMID: 29925031 Open Access

Goswami I, Perry JB, Allen ME, Brown DA, von Spakovsky MR, Verbridge SS (2018) Biophys J

Abstract: Pulsed electric fields with microsecond pulse width (μsPEFs) are used clinically; namely, irreversible electroporation/Nanoknife is used for soft tissue tumor ablation. The μsPEF pulse parameters used in irreversible electroporation (0.5-1 kV/cm, 80-100 pulses, ∼100 μs each, 1 Hz frequency) may cause an internal field to develop within the cell because of the disruption of the outer cell membrane and subsequent penetration of the electric field. An internal field may disrupt voltage-sensitive mitochondria, although the research literature has been relatively unclear regarding whether such disruptions occur with μsPEFs. This investigation reports the influence of clinically used μsPEF parameters on mitochondrial respiration in live cells. Using a high-throughput Agilent Seahorse machine, it was observed that μsPEF exposure comprising 80 pulses with amplitudes of 600 or 700 V/cm did not alter mitochondrial respiration in 4T1 cells measured after overnight postexposure recovery. To record alterations in mitochondrial function immediately after μsPEF exposure, high-resolution respirometry was used to measure the electron transport chain state via responses to glutamate-malate and ADP and mitochondrial membrane potential via response to carbonyl cyanide-p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone. In addition to measuring immediate mitochondrial responses to μsPEF exposure, measurements were also made on cells permeabilized using digitonin and those with compromised cytoskeleton due to actin depolymerization via treatment with the drug latrunculin B. The former treatment was used as a control to tease out the effects of plasma membrane permeabilization, whereas the latter was used to investigate indirect effects on the mitochondria that may occur if μsPEFs impact the cytoskeleton on which the mitochondria are anchored. Based on the results, it was concluded that within the pulse parameters tested, μsPEFs alone do not hinder mitochondrial physiology but can be used to impact the mitochondria upon compromising the actin. Mitochondrial susceptibility to μsPEF after actin depolymerization provides, to our knowledge, a novel avenue for cancer therapeutics.

Bioblast editor: Kandolf G O2k-Network Lab: US VA Blacksburg Brown DA


Labels: MiParea: Respiration  Pathology: Cancer 

Organism: Mouse  Tissue;cell: Other cell lines  Preparation: Intact cells 


Coupling state: OXPHOS, ET  Pathway:HRR: Oxygraph-2k 

Labels, 2018-08