Title
Single-Cell Mass Spectrometry of Metabolites Extracted from Live Cells by Fluidic Force Microscopy
Date Issued
02 May 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Guillaume-Gentil O.
Rey T.
Kiefer P.
Steinhoff R.
Brönnimann R.
Dorwling-Carter L.
Zambelli T.
Zenobi R.
Vorholt J.
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Single-cell metabolite analysis provides valuable information on cellular function and response to external stimuli. While recent advances in mass spectrometry reached the sensitivity required to investigate metabolites in single cells, current methods commonly isolate and sacrifice cells, inflicting a perturbed state and preventing complementary analyses. Here, we propose a two-step approach that combines nondestructive and quantitative withdrawal of intracellular fluid with subpicoliter resolution using fluidic force microscopy, followed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The developed method enabled the detection and identification of 20 metabolites recovered from the cytoplasm of individual HeLa cells. The approach was further validated in 13C-glucose feeding experiments, which showed incorporation of labeled carbon atoms into different metabolites. Metabolite sampling, followed by mass spectrometry measurements, enabled the preservation of the physiological context and the viability of the analyzed cell, providing opportunities for complementary analyses of the cell before, during, and after metabolite analysis.
Start page
5017
End page
5023
Volume
89
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología ambiental
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85020414244
PubMed ID
Source
Analytical Chemistry
ISSN of the container
00032700
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