Abstract：
:Macrophages are immune cells responsible for tissue debridement and fighting infection. Clofazimine, an FDA-approved antibiotic, accumulates and precipitates as rod-shaped, crystal-like drug inclusions within macrophage lysosomes. Drug treatment as well as pathophysiological states could induce changes in macrophage mechanical property which in turn impact their phenotype and function. Here we report the use of acoustic tweezing cytometry as a new approach for in situ mechanical phenotyping of macrophages and for targeted macrophage cytotripsy. Acoustic tweezing cytometry applies ultrasound pulses to exert controlled forces to individual cells via integrin-bound microbubbles, enabling a creep test for measuring cellular mechanical property or inducing irreversible changes to the cells. Our results revealed that macrophages with crystal-like drug inclusions became significantly softer with higher cell compliance, and behaved more elastic with faster creep and recovery time constants. On the contrary, phagocytosis of solid polyethylene microbeads or treatment with soluble clofazimine rendered macrophages stiffer. Most notably, application of ultrasound pulses of longer duration and higher amplitude in ATC actuated the integrin-bound microbubbles to mobilize the crystal-like drug inclusions inside macrophages, turning the rod-shaped drug inclusions into intracellular microblender that effectively destructed the cells. This phenomenon of acoustic mechanopharmaceutical cytotripsy may be exploited for ultrasound activated, macrophage-directed drug release and delivery.
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Hong X,Rzeczycki PM,Keswani RK,Murashov MD,Fan Z,Deng CX,Rosania GRdoi
10.1038/s41598-019-42180-3subject
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2019-04-05 00:00:00pages
5702issue
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2045-2322pii
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