Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States.
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States.
ACS Sens. 2022 May 27;7(5):1495-1505. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c00232. Epub 2022 May 18.
Delineating the molecular and morphological changes that cancer cells undergo in response to extracellular stimuli is crucial for identifying factors that promote tumor progression. Label-free optical imaging offers a potentially promising route for retrieving such single-cell information by generating detailed visualization of the morphology and determining alterations in biomolecular composition. The potential of such nonperturbative morphomolecular microscopy for analyzing microbiota-cancer cell interactions has been surprisingly underappreciated, despite the growing evidence of the critical role of dysbiosis in malignant transformations. Here, using a model system of breast cancer cells, we show that label-free Raman microspectroscopy and quantitative phase microscopy can detect biomolecular and morphological changes in single cells exposed to toxin (BFT), a toxin secreted by enterotoxigenic. Remarkably, using machine learning to elucidate subtle, but consistent, cellular differences, we found that the morphomolecular differences between BFT-exposed and control breast cancer cells became more accentuated after passage, corroborating our findings that a short-term BFT exposure imparts a long-term effect on cancer cells and promotes a more invasive phenotype. Complementing more classical labeling techniques, our label-free platform offers a global detection approach with measurements representative of the overall cellular phenotype, paving the way for further investigations into the multifaceted interactions between the cancer cell and the microbiota.
阐明癌细胞对外界刺激的分子和形态变化对于确定促进肿瘤进展的因素至关重要。无标记光学成像是一种有前途的方法,可以通过详细观察形态和确定生物分子组成的变化来获取此类单细胞信息。尽管越来越多的证据表明失调在恶性转化中起着关键作用,但这种非侵入性形态分子显微镜分析微生物群-癌细胞相互作用的潜力却令人惊讶地被低估了。在这里,我们使用乳腺癌细胞模型系统表明,无标记拉曼显微镜和定量相位显微镜可以检测暴露于毒素(BFT)的单个细胞中的生物分子和形态变化,BFT 是一种由肠产毒细菌分泌的毒素。值得注意的是,我们使用机器学习来阐明细微但一致的细胞差异,发现暴露于 BFT 的和对照乳腺癌细胞之间的形态分子差异在传代后变得更加明显,这证实了我们的发现,即短期 BFT 暴露会对癌细胞产生长期影响,并促进更具侵袭性的表型。作为更经典的标记技术的补充,我们的无标记平台提供了一种具有代表性的整体细胞表型的全局检测方法,为进一步研究癌细胞和微生物群之间的多方面相互作用铺平了道路。
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