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Quantitative analysis of cellular glutathione by flow cytometry utilizing monochlorobimane: some applications to radiation and drug resistance in vitro and in vivo.

Abstract：

:An assay using a bimane derivative has been developed to detect free glutathione (GSH) in individual viable cells by flow cytometry. Monochlorobimane [syn-(ClCH2CH3)-1,5-diazabicycla[3.30]acta-3,6-diene-2,8-dio ne], itself nonfluorescent, reacts with GSH to form a highly fluorescent derivative. High pressure liquid chromatography analysis showed that, using specific staining conditions, the only low molecular weight fluorescent derivative formed in Chinese hamster ovary cells was that formed with GSH. Very little reaction with protein sulfhydryls was observed. Rates of GSH depletion in Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to diethylmaleate were essentially the same, whether measured by relative fluorescence intensity, by flow cytometry or by enzymatic assay on cellular extracts. This method was shown to be useful for measurement of GSH resynthesis, uptake, and depletion by prolonged hypoxia and misonidazole treatment. Since measurements are made on individual cells, cell-to-cell variation and populational heterogeneity in GSH content are revealed by flow cytometry. Although under most conditions in vitro GSH content is relatively homogeneous, under certain circumstances, such as release from hypoxia, heterogeneity in populational GSH levels was observed. The significance of this heterogeneity is discussed in regard to the induction of gene amplification and drug resistance by transient hypoxia. Numerous subclones of Chinese hamster ovary cells selected by growth in Adriamycin or methotrexate-containing medium express elevated levels of GSH per cell. The method was extended to quantitate the GSH content of cells excised from EMT-6/SF mouse tumors that had been treated in vivo with L-buthionine-S-R-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of GSH synthesis. The bivariate analysis (forward angle light scatter versus monochlorobimane fluorescence) of cells derived from these tumors gave excellent resolution of normal and tumor cells and demonstrated extensive heterogeneity in the tumor cell population with respect to GSH content per cell.

journal_name

Cancer Res

journal_title

Cancer research

authors

Rice GC,Bump EA,Shrieve DC,Lee W,Kovacs M

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-12-01 00:00:00

pages

6105-10

issue

12 Pt 1

eissn

0008-5472

issn

1538-7445

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Quantitative analysis of cellular glutathione by flow cytometry utilizing monochlorobimane: some applications to radiation and drug resistance in vitro and in vivo.