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Pulse Duration Dependent Asymmetry in Molecular Transmembrane Transport Due to Electroporation in H9c2 Rat Cardiac Myoblast Cells In Vitro. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26216571. [PMID: 34770979 PMCID: PMC8588460 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26216571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 10/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Electroporation (EP) is one of the successful physical methods for intracellular drug delivery, which temporarily permeabilizes plasma membrane by exposing cells to electric pulses. Orientation of cells in electric field is important for electroporation and, consequently, for transport of molecules through permeabilized plasma membrane. Uptake of molecules after electroporation are the greatest at poles of cells facing electrodes and is often asymmetrical. However, asymmetry reported was inconsistent and inconclusive-in different reports it was either preferentially anodal or cathodal. We investigated the asymmetry of polar uptake of calcium ions after electroporation with electric pulses of different durations, as the orientation of elongated cells affects electroporation to a different extent when using electric pulses of different durations in the range of 100 ns to 100 µs. The results show that with 1, 10, and 100 µs pulses, the uptake of calcium ions is greater at the pole closer to the cathode than at the pole closer to the anode. With shorter 100 ns pulses, the asymmetry is not observed. A different extent of electroporation at different parts of elongated cells, such as muscle or cardiac cells, may have an impact on electroporation-based treatments such as drug delivery, pulse-field ablation, and gene electrotransfection.
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Batista Napotnik T, Polajžer T, Miklavčič D. Cell death due to electroporation - A review. Bioelectrochemistry 2021; 141:107871. [PMID: 34147013 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2021.107871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Exposure of cells to high voltage electric pulses increases transiently membrane permeability through membrane electroporation. Electroporation can be reversible and is used in gene transfer and enhanced drug delivery but can also lead to cell death. Electroporation resulting in cell death (termed as irreversible electroporation) has been successfully used as a new non-thermal ablation method of soft tissue such as tumours or arrhythmogenic heart tissue. Even though the mechanisms of cell death can influence the outcome of electroporation-based treatments due to use of different electric pulse parameters and conditions, these are not elucidated yet. We review the mechanisms of cell death after electroporation reported in literature, cell injuries that may lead to cell death after electroporation and membrane repair mechanisms involved. The knowledge of membrane repair and cell death mechanisms after cell exposure to electric pulses, targets of electric field in cells need to be identified to optimize existing and develop of new electroporation-based techniques used in medicine, biotechnology, and food technology.
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- Tina Batista Napotnik
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tržaška cesta 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tržaška cesta 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tržaška cesta 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Roberts MA, Locascio-Brown L, Maccrehan WA, Durst RA. Liposome behavior in capillary electrophoresis. Anal Chem 2012; 68:3434-40. [PMID: 21619277 DOI: 10.1021/ac9603284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The behavior of liposomes in capillary electrophoresis is studied for the purpose of developing a potential method for characterizing liposomes prepared for use in industrial and analytical applications. This study characterizes the electrophoretic behavior of liposomes under various conditions to provide information about electrophoretic mobility and liposome-capillary surface interactions. The results of this method are compared with the results obtained using traditional laser light-scattering methods to obtain size information about liposome preparations. Additionally, reactions of liposomes and the surfactant n-octyl-β-d-glucopyranoside are performed off-line in bulk solution experiments and on-line in the capillary. Automated delivery of lysis agents by multiple electrokinetic injections is demonstrated as a general method for inducing on-capillary reactions between liposomes and other reagents. Furthermore, some preliminary evidence on the use of liposomes as a hydrophobic partitioning medium for analytical separations is presented.
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- M A Roberts
- Chemical Sensing and Automation Technologies Group, Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-0001, and Bioanalytical Laboratory, Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 14456-0462
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DeBruin KA, Krassowska W. Modeling electroporation in a single cell. II. Effects Of ionic concentrations. Biophys J 1999; 77:1225-33. [PMID: 10465737 PMCID: PMC1300414 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(99)76974-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This study expands a previously developed model of a single cell electroporated by an external electric field by explicitly accounting for the ionic composition of the electroporation current. The previous model with non-specific electroporation current predicts that both the transmembrane potential V(m) and the pore density N are symmetric about the equator, with the same values at either end of the cell. The new, ion-specific case predicts that V(m) is symmetric and almost identical to the profile from the non-specific case, but N has a profound asymmetry with the pore density at the hyperpolarized end of the cell twice the value at the depolarized end. These modeling results agree with the experimentally observed preferential uptake of marker molecules at the hyperpolarized end of the cell as reported in the literature. This study also investigates the changes in intracellular ionic concentrations induced around an electroporated single cell. For all ion species, the concentrations near the membrane vary significantly, which may explain the electrical disturbances observed experimentally after large electric shocks are delivered to excitable cells and tissues.
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- K A DeBruin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0281 USA.
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Teissié J, Ramos C. Correlation between electric field pulse induced long-lived permeabilization and fusogenicity in cell membranes. Biophys J 1998; 74:1889-98. [PMID: 9545050 PMCID: PMC1299532 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(98)77898-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Electric field pulses have been reported to induce long-lived permeabilization and fusogenicity on cell membranes. The two membrane property alterations are under the control of the field strength, the pulse duration, and the number of pulses. Experiments on mammalian cells pulsed by square wave form pulses and then brought into contact randomly through centrifugation revealed an even stronger analogy between the two processes. Permeabilization was known to affect well-defined regions of the cell surface. Fusion can be obtained only when permeabilized surfaces on the two partners were brought into contact. Permeabilization was under the control of the pulse duration and of the number of pulses. A similar relationship was observed as far as fusion is concerned. But a critical level of local permeabilization must be present for fusion to take place when contacts are created. The same conclusions are obtained from previous experiments on ghosts subjected to exponentially decaying field pulses and then brought into contact by dielectrophoresis. These observations are in agreement with a model of membrane fusion in which the merging of local random defects occurs when the two membranes are brought into contact. The local defects are considered part of the structural membrane reorganization induced by the external field. Their density is dependent on the pulse duration and number of pulses. They support the long-lived permeabilization. Their number must be very large to support the occurrence of membrane fusion.
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- J Teissié
- Institut de Biologie et de Biologie Structurale du CNRS, Toulouse, France.
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Teruel MN, Meyer T. Electroporation-induced formation of individual calcium entry sites in the cell body and processes of adherent cells. Biophys J 1997; 73:1785-96. [PMID: 9336174 PMCID: PMC1181079 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78209-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Electroporation is a widely used method for introducing macromolecules into cells. We developed an electroporation device that requires only 1 microl of sample to load adherent cells in a 10-mm2 surface area while retaining greater than 90% cell survivability. To better understand this device, field-induced permeabilization of adherent rat basophilic leukemia and neocortical neuroblastoma cells was investigated by using fluorescent calcium and voltage indicators. Rectangular field pulses led to the formation of only a few calcium entry sites, preferentially in the hyperpolarized parts of the cell body and processes. Individual entry sites were formed at the same locations when field pulses were repeated. Before calcium entry, a partial breakdown of the membrane potential was observed in both polar regions. Based on our results, a model is proposed for the formation and closure of macromolecule entry sites in adherent cells. First, the rapid formation of a large number of small pores leads to a partial membrane potential breakdown in both polar regions of the cell. Second, over tens of milliseconds, a few entry sites for macromolecules are formed, preferentially in the hyperpolarized part of cell body and processes, at locations defined by the local membrane structure. These entry sites reseal on a time scale of 50 ms to several seconds, with residual small pores remaining open for several minutes.
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- M N Teruel
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Saulis G. Pore disappearance in a cell after electroporation: theoretical simulation and comparison with experiments. Biophys J 1997; 73:1299-309. [PMID: 9284298 PMCID: PMC1181030 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78163-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The process of pore disappearance after cell electroporation is analyzed theoretically. On the basis of the kinetic model, in which the formation and annihilation of a metastable hydrophilic pore are considered as random one-step processes, a distribution function of cell resealing times, Fr(t), is derived. Two cases are studied: 1) the rate of pore resealing, k(r), is significantly greater than the rate of pore formation, k(f); and 2) the rate of pore formation, k(f), is comparable with k(r). It is determined that the shape of the distribution function depends on the initial number of pores in a cell, n(i). If in the absence of an external electric field the rate of pore formation, k(f), is significantly less than the rate of pore resealing, k(r) (case 1), pores disappear completely, whereas when k(f) approximately k(r) (case 2), the cell achieves a steady state in which the number of pores is equal to k(f)/k(r). In case 1, when n(i) = 1, the distribution function Fr(t) is exponential. The developed theory is compared with experimental data available in the literature. Increasing the time of incubation at elevated temperature increases the fraction of resealed cells. This indicates that the time necessary for the resealing varies from cell to cell. Although the shape of experimental relationships depends on the electroporation conditions they can be described by theoretical curves quite well. Thus it can be concluded that the disappearance of pores in the cell membrane after electroporation is a random process. It is shown that from the comparison of presented theory with experiments, the following parameters can be estimated: the average number of pores, n(i), that appeared in a cell during an electric pulse; the rate of pore disappearance, k(r); the ratio k(f)/k(r); and the energy barrier to pore disappearance deltaWr(0). Estimated numerical values of the parameters show that increasing the amplitude of an electric pulse increases either the apparent number of pores created during the pulse (the rate of pore resealing remains the same) or the rate of pore resealing (the average number of pores remains the same).
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- G Saulis
- Department of Biology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Li LH, Hensen ML, Zhao YL, Hui SW. Electrofusion between heterogeneous-sized mammalian cells in a pellet: potential applications in drug delivery and hybridoma formation. Biophys J 1996; 71:479-86. [PMID: 8804630 PMCID: PMC1233498 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(96)79249-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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High-efficiency electrofusion between cells of different sizes was achieved by application of fusing electric pulses to cells in centrifuged pellets. Larger target cells (Chinese hamster ovary or L1210 cells) were stacked among smaller human erythrocytes or erythrocyte ghosts by sequential centrifugation at 700 g to form five-tier pellets in a specially designed centrifugation-electrofusion chamber. The membranes of erythrocytes and ghost were labeled with fluorescent membrane dye (1,1' dioctadecyl-3,3,3'3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine (Dil)), and the contents of ghosts were loaded with water-soluble fluorescent dye (42-kDa fluorescein isothiocyanate dextran (FITC-dextran)), to monitor heterogeneous cell fusion. Fusion efficiency was assayed by the extent of either membrane dye mixing or contents (FITC-dextran) mixing with target cells. Four rectangular electric pulses at 300 V and 80 microseconds each were found to give the optimal fusion results of approximately 80% heterogeneous fusion by the content-mixing assay and approximately 95% by the membrane-dye-mixing assay. Cell viability remained greater than 80% after electrofusion. Because of the electric breakdown of cell membranes at the beginning of the pulse, the pellet resistance and hence the partial voltage across the pellet reduced rapidly during the remaining pulse time. This voltage redistribution favored the survival of fused cells. The limited colloidal-osmotic swelling of cells in pellets enhanced cell-cell contact and increased the pellet resistance after each pulse. As a result, the partial voltage across the pellet was restored when the next pulse was applied. This redistribution of pulse voltage in the pellet system permitted the breakdown of cell membranes at a lower applied voltage threshold than that required for electrofusion of cells in suspension or in dielectrophoretic cell chains. The cell viability and soluble dye retention within cells (FITC-dextran) remained at the same high levels for 3 h when the cells were incubated in respective culture media with serum at 37 degrees C. Viability and dye retention decreased significantly within 30 min when cells were incubated in phosphate-buffered saline without serum. The pellet technique was applied to form hybridomas by fusion of larger SP2/0 murine myelomas with smaller naive mouse lymphocytes. An optimum of 173 +/- 70 hypoxanthine aminopterin thymidine (HAT)-selected clones of the hybridomas was obtained from 40,000 SP2/0 cells and 1.5 x 10(6) lymphocytes used in each trial. This high-efficiency fusion technique may be adapted to mediate drug and gene transfer to target cells ex vivo as well as to form hybrid cells with limited cell sources.
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- L H Li
- Membrane Biophysics Laboratory, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263 USA
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Rooney IA, Heuser JE, Atkinson JP. GPI-anchored complement regulatory proteins in seminal plasma. An analysis of their physical condition and the mechanisms of their binding to exogenous cells. J Clin Invest 1996; 97:1675-86. [PMID: 8601633 PMCID: PMC507232 DOI: 10.1172/jci118594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We analyzed and compared the properties of three glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins. CD59, CD55 (both C regulators), and CDw52, and of the transmembrane C regulator CD46 in seminal plasma (SP). We demonstrated previously that anchor-intact SP CD59 is present on the membranes of vesicles (prostasomes) and that cells acquire this protein during incubation with SP. We now report that this acquisition is due partly to adherence of prostasomes to cells and partly to a second mechanism which may involve micellar intermediates. Using fluorescent labeling, ultracentrifugation, and density gradient centrifugation, virtually all CD46 was present on prostasomes whereas CD59, CD55, AND CDw52 were also detected in a form which remained in the 200,000 g supernatant and equilibrated at higher density than prostasomes in gradients. All three GPI-linked proteins eluted at high molecular mass during size exclusion chromatography of this nonprostasome fraction. As documented by videomicroscopy and biochemical analysis, cells acquired new copies of the GPI-linked proteins during incubation with the nonprostasome fraction as well as with prostasomes. These data demonstrate the presence in SP of a stable population of membrane-free, GPI-linked proteins available for transfer to cells. Binding of these proteins to spermatozoa and pathogens in SP may confer new properties on their membranes including increased resistance to C attack. Finally, our data raise the possibility that lipid-associated GPI-linked proteins may be suitable for therapeutic applications.
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- I A Rooney
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, UK
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Sowers AE. Membrane skeleton restraint of surface shape change during fusion of erythrocyte membranes: evidence from use of osmotic and dielectrophoretic microforces as probes. Biophys J 1995; 69:2507-16. [PMID: 8599657 PMCID: PMC1236488 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(95)80121-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The role of the spectrin-based membrane skeleton in cell fusion was studied by following the condition-dependent diameter versus time expansion signature of the fusion zone in electrofused pairs of erythrocyte ghost membranes. Previous work showed that the presence of the dielectrophoresis-inducing alternating electric field, which is used to bring membranes into contact through pearl chain formation, had a detectable promoting effect on fusion zone expansion. Two new dielectrophoresis protocols were used in the present work to utilize this externally generated and controllable microforce field to probe the forces intrinsic to the system that drives the expansion of the fusion zone. First, fusion zones expanded to a greater diameter in a strong AC field compared to a weak AC field, and they expanded to a greater diameter if erythrocyte ghosts received a prior heat treatment (42 degrees C, 20 min). Furthermore, flat diaphragm fusion zones broke down into open lumen fusion zones sooner (i.e., had shorter lifetimes) when they were expanding more quickly. Second, changing the AC field strength at specific times during the fusion zone expansion led to an immediate visco-elastic response. However, shifting the AC field strength to zero after 5 s of fusion zone expansion resulted in a subsequent decrease in the average fusion zone diameter. This suggests not only that the spectrin-based membrane skeleton actually tends to prevent the rounding up process but that it may be capable of generating an antirounding force, which has broad implications for the role of the membrane skeleton in cell fusion. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that flat diaphragm fusion zones induced in heat-treated membranes were very easily stretched and that membrane-based forces that control or drive the expansion process must originate from membrane area that is outside rather than inside the fusion zone. Lastly, when an outward-directed osmotic pressure-based microforce was present at the time that erythrocyte ghosts were fused, the fusion zone diameter underwent a greater expansion in the 0-1 s interval after fusion. This suggests that an osmotic pressure-based microforce can be used to experimentally calibrate the dielectrophoretic force.
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- A E Sowers
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore 21201, USA.
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Tekle E, Astumian RD, Chock PB. Selective and asymmetric molecular transport across electroporated cell membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:11512-6. [PMID: 7972093 PMCID: PMC45261 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.24.11512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Transport of a divalent cation (Ca2+) and three DNA indicators [ethidium bromide (EB), propidium iodide (PI), and ethidium homodimer (EthD-1)] across electroporated membranes of several mammalian cell lines was found to be selective and asymmetrical. In low salt medium, Ca2+ and EB were preferentially transported across the anodefacing cell membrane while PI and EthD-1 predominately entered at the site facing the cathode. In high salt medium, the entry site for Ca2+ and EB was reversed to the cathode-facing hemisphere while it remained unchanged for PI and EthD-1. In all these experiments, the observed transport patterns remained unaffected whether the dyes (or ion) were present during or added after the electroporating pulse. The data suggest that asymmetric pores are created on both sides of the membrane facing the electrodes, with smaller pore size (but greater in number) on the anode side and larger pores (with a lower population) on the cathode side. Furthermore, the rate of resealing of the membrane pores is significantly enhanced in high ionic strength medium, thus affecting the entry site. The asymmetric transport pattern is neither caused by electrophoresis induced by the externally applied electric field nor due to one-sided membrane breakdown as previously believed.
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- E Tekle
- Section on Metabolic Regulation, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Apparatus and methods were developed to enable mechanically facilitated cell-cell electrofusion to be performed. The apparatus and methods mechanically place cells in contact before fusion. The key component of this fusion system was a newly developed fusion chamber. The chamber was composed of two functionally identical electrodes that were housed in a multi-layer structure. The layers functioned as support for the electrodes. They also allowed adjustment of the distance between opposing electrode faces. The electrodes were constructed in a manner that allowed cells to be deposited, by vacuum, onto each face. Electrode faces were positioned at a predetermined distance from each other to mechanically force cell-cell contact between the deposited cells. Fusion was induced by delivering direct current pulses to the juxtaposed cells. Fusion products were detected and quantitated by flow cytometry. Details of the chamber design and a protocol for using the fusion chamber are given. Mechanically facilitated cell-cell electrofusion was demonstrated by using the chamber to produce fusion products from like fusion partners. The practical applicability of the chamber was demonstrated by fusing unlike cell types. Mechanically facilitated cell-cell electrofusion is not specific to the cells used in this study; the chamber can be adapted for use with other cell types.
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- M J Jaroszeski
- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612
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Chen W, Lee RC. Electromediated permeabilization of frog skeletal muscle cell membrane: Effect of voltage-gated ion channels. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0302-4598(94)80031-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Sabelnikov AG. Nucleic acid transfer through cell membranes: towards the underlying mechanisms. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 62:119-52. [PMID: 7524111 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(94)90009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Various cases of DNA (RNA) transfer through membranes of living cells are reviewed. They are classified into two major categories: those which occur in Nature (natural transfer) and those imposed by various physical and chemical treatments of cells (induced transfer). Among the examples of natural transfer surveyed are the transfer during bacterial conjugation, genetic transformation, viral infection of bacteria, and nuclear membrane trafficking. Consideration of the induced transfer is focused on the two methods most widely used at present to introduce foreign genetic information into pro- and eukaryotic cells: Ca2+ (and some other divalent cations)-induced and calcium phosphate-induced transfer, and transfer during electroporation of cells. Emphasis is made on the underlying mechanisms of transfer, or rather on what is currently known about them. Energetic aspects of transfer are also discussed and different tentative models of transfer are presented.
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- A G Sabelnikov
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y. 11973
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Hibino M, Itoh H, Kinosita K. Time courses of cell electroporation as revealed by submicrosecond imaging of transmembrane potential. Biophys J 1993; 64:1789-800. [PMID: 8369408 PMCID: PMC1262513 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(93)81550-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Changes in the membrane conductance of sea urchin eggs, during the course of electroporation, were investigated over the time range of 0.5 microsecond to 1 ms by imaging the transmembrane potential at a submicrosecond resolution with the voltage-sensitive fluorescent dye RH292. When a rectangular electric pulse of moderate intensity was applied across an egg, a position-dependent potential developed synchronously with the pulse, as theory predicts for a cell with an insulating membrane. From the rise and fall times, the membrane capacitance of unfertilized eggs was estimated to be 0.95 microF/cm2 and the intracellular conductance 220 omega.cm. Under an electric pulse of much higher intensity, the rise of the induced potential stopped at a certain level and then slowly decreased on the microsecond time scale. This saturation and subsequent reversal of the potential development was ascribed to the introduction of finite membrane conductance, or permeabilization of the membrane, by the action of the intense pulse (electroporation). Detailed analysis indicated the following: already at 0.5 microsecond in the rectangular electric pulse, the two sides of the egg facing the positive and negative electrodes were porated and gave a high membrane conductance in the order of 1 S/cm2; the conductance on the positive side appeared higher. Thereafter, the conductance increased steadily, reaching the order of 10 S/cm2 by 1 ms. This increase was faster on the negative-electrode side; by 1 ms the conductance on the negative side was more than twice that on the positive side. The recovery of the porated membrane after the pulse treatment was assessed from the membrane conductance estimated in a second electric pulse of a small amplitude. At least two recovery processes were distinguished, one with a time constant of 7 microseconds and the other 0.5 ms, at the end of which the membrane conductance was already < 0.1 S/cm2.
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- M Hibino
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- A E Sowers
- Department of Biophysics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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Xie TD, Sun L, Zhao HG, Fuchs JA, Tsong TY. Study of mechanisms of electric field-induced DNA transfection. IV. Effects of DNA topology on cell uptake and transfection efficiency. Biophys J 1992; 63:1026-31. [PMID: 1420922 PMCID: PMC1262241 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(92)81675-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Electric parameters and solvent conditions are known to influence the efficiency of DNA transfection of cells by a pulsed electric field (PEF). A previous study (Neumann, E., M. Schaefer-Ridder, Y. Wang, and P. H. Hofschneider. 1982. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 1:841-845) has indicated that DNA topology is also an important determinant. We report an investigation of the PEF induced uptake, stability, and expression of three different topological isomers, circular supercoiled (scDNA), circular relaxed (crDNA), and linearized (lnDNA) forms of the plasmid pBR322, by Escherichia coli strain JM105. Monomeric pBR322 prepared by the electroelution from an agarose gel was in the supercoiled form. Treatment of the scDNA with wheat germ topoisomerase I removed the superhelicity and the DNA assumed the relaxed circular form. Treatment of scDNA by a restriction endonuclease, EcoRI or Hind III, linearized the DNA. The MgCl2-dependent bindings of all three forms of DNA to the cell surface were indistinguishable. So was the PEF induced cell uptake. In contrast, the transfection efficiency (TE) for the scDNA and the crDNA were high (approximately 2 x 10(8) micrograms-1 DNA at neutral pH), whereas that for the lnDNA was approximately five orders of magnitude lower (less than 1 x 10(3) micrograms-1 DNA). Analysis by agarose gel electrophoresis indicated that the PEF loaded ln DNA was degraded by the host cell within 3 h. However, the loaded scDNA and the crDNA were stable and expressed in the cytoplasm. We conclude that first, the PEF induced DNA entry into E. coli did not depend on the topology of the DNA. As cellular uptake of DNA also correlated with the surface binding, these data support electrophoresis of surface bound DNA as the dominating mechanism for the DNA entry. Second, the variations of TE for different topological forms of DNA reflected their relative stability in the host cells. Third, since the loaded DNA could be either rapidly degraded by the host enzyme or expressed, they were unlikely coated with a layer of protective lipid membrane. Thus, PEF induced cellular uptake of DNA is unlikely by the endocytotic mechanisms as was reported previously for the liposomes (Chernomordik, L. V., A. V. Sokolov, and V. G. Budker. 1990.Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1024:179-183).
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- T D Xie
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, St. Paul 55108
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Fluorometric assay for quantitating electrofusion, FAQE, was developed to measure the number of cells fused to intact tissue. The fluorescent vital dye hydroethidine is used in this method. The fluorescent intensity detected in the cell tissue hybrids is proportional to the number of individual cells fused. The number of cells fused was determined after fusion by lysing the epithelial layer with 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate and the supernatant fluids were measured in a spectrofluorometer and compared to established standard curves. The mean number of cells fused, in five separate experiments, was determined to be approximately 5000. All the experimental corneas had approximately the same number of fused cells with less than 10% variation. In addition, the technique was used to demonstrate an increase in the number of cells fused when multiple fusions were applied to the cell-tissue electrofusion system. These results demonstrate that FAQE can be utilized to quantitatively analyze the fusion yields.
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- R Heller
- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612
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Kim D, Lee YJ, Rausch CM, Borrelli MJ. Electroporation of extraneous proteins into CHO cells: increased efficacy by utilizing centrifugal force and microsecond electrical pulses. Exp Cell Res 1991; 197:207-12. [PMID: 1959556 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(91)90424-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A novel electroporation system employing an oscillating electric pulse and centrifugal force was used to introduce extraneous proteins into CHO cells. Following the electrical pulse, the compression and subsequent rebound induced by the centrifugal acceleration and deceleration, respectively, enhanced protein uptake, presumably by a hydrodynamic pumping of extracellular solutions through the permeabilized membrane. Protein uptake was quantitated by measuring the amount of radiolabeled, extraneous, CHO proteins introduced into unlabeled CHO cells. The amount of protein introduced into electroporated CHO cells was enhanced up to four-fold by a combination of electric pulse and centrifugal force compared to that introduced by electric pulse only. The optimum gradient of centrifugal force (GCF, temporal change of centrifugal force) was 590 and -470 g/s during acceleration and deceleration, respectively. The optimum electric field was 5 kV/cm with a 30-microsecond pulse length. At this optimum electroporation condition, approximately 5 pg of proteins (up to 200 kDa molecular weight) were introduced per CHO cell. These same settings also permitted electroporation of other membrane impermeable substances including propidium iodide and ethidium bromide. Introduction of extraneous materials into the cytoplasm during electroporation was confirmed by the ability of anti alpha-tubulin to stain the microtubules and propidium iodide and ethidium bromide to stain the nuclei. Cells electroporated with optimum device settings exhibited no significant decrease in clonogenic survival.
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- D Kim
- Department of Radiation Oncology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073
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Chernomordik LV, Papahadjopoulos D, Tsong TY. Increased binding of liposomes to cells by electric treatment. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1070:193-7. [PMID: 1661151 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(91)90163-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The influence of electric field treatments on the interaction of large unilamellar vesicles (liposomes) with animal cells was monitored by the fluorescence assay based on the use of the liposomes loaded by a dye 1-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid (HPTS). It was shown that application of a short electric pulse (100 microseconds of 3-4 kV/cm) to the suspension of cells in presence of vesicles resulted in significant (more than 2 times) increase of the fluorescence associated with cells. The pH-sensitivity of the excitation spectrum of the dye and its interaction with the quencher were used to determine the nature of the phenomenon as the increase of the liposome binding onto the cell surface but not the consequence of a promotion of liposome uptake into the cells by endocytosis. The higher affinity for the liposome caused by the electric field has a lifetime of several minutes. The possible relation of the effect described to the electroporation of cell membranes and to macroscopic changes in membrane structure is discussed.
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Chernomordik LV, Sowers AE. Evidence that the spectrin network and a nonosmotic force control the fusion product morphology in electrofused erythrocyte ghosts. Biophys J 1991; 60:1026-37. [PMID: 1760502 PMCID: PMC1260160 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(91)82140-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The conversion of the membrane area in the "contact zones" shared by erythrocyte ghosts held in contact by dielectrophoresis into a fusion product by electrofusion was studied by both light and electron microscopy. Fusion products fell into two categories: (a) those with a freely expanding open lumen which ended in the "giant cell morphology" and with considerable internal vesicle membrane fragments, and (b) linear chains of polyghosts with long term stability but having planar diaphragms at the ghost-ghost junctions. Thin section electron microscopy showed each of these planar diaphragms to be a double membrane septum multiply-perforated with fusion pores. Heat and low ionic strength treatments known to denature or detach spectrin caused the stable planar diaphragms to dissolve, thereby quickly converting the polyghost chains to the giant cell morphology, thereby suggesting that spectrin restricts fusion zone diameter expansion if it is intact. Other indications suggest that the expansion of the open lumens appears to take place as a result of one or more membrane-specific forces with a nonosmotic origin but this tendency to expansion can be overcome if the spectrin network on only one side of a contact zone is intact.
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- L V Chernomordik
- Cell Biology Department, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences, American Red Cross, Rockville, Maryland 20855
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Klenchin VA, Sukharev SI, Serov SM, Chernomordik LV, Chizmadzhev YuA. Electrically induced DNA uptake by cells is a fast process involving DNA electrophoresis. Biophys J 1991; 60:804-11. [PMID: 1660315 PMCID: PMC1260132 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(91)82115-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Simian Cos-1 cells were transfected electrically with the plasmid pCH110 carrying the beta-galactosidase gene. The efficiency of transfection was determined by a transient expression of this gene. When the plasmid was introduced into a cell suspension 2 s after pulse application, the transfection efficiency was shown to be less than 1% as compared with a prepulse addition of DNA. Addition of DNAase to suspension immediately after a pulse did not decrease transfection efficiency, thus the time of DNA translocation was estimated to be less than 3 s. The use of electric treatment medium, in which the postpulse colloid-osmotic cell swelling was prevented, did not affect the transfection efficiency. These results contradict both assumptions of free DNA diffusion into cell through the long-lived pores and of involvement of osmotic effects in DNA translocation. Transfection of cells in monolayer on a porous film allowed creation of the spatial asymmetry of cell-plasmid interaction along the direction of electric field applied. A pulse with a polarity inducing DNA electrophoresis toward the cells resulted in the 10-fold excess of transfection efficiency compared with a pulse with reverse polarity. Ficoll (10%) which increases medium viscosity or Mg2+ ions (10 mM) which decrease the effective charge of DNA, both reduced transfection efficiency 2-3-fold. These results prove a significant role of DNA electrophoresis in the phenomenon considered. The permeability of cell membranes for an indifferent dye was shown to increase noticeably if the cells were pulsed in the presence of DNA. This indicates a possible interaction of DNA translocated with the pores in an electric field, that results in pore expansion.
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- V A Klenchin
- Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Kinosita K, Itoh H, Ishiwata S, Hirano K, Nishizaka T, Hayakawa T. Dual-view microscopy with a single camera: real-time imaging of molecular orientations and calcium. J Cell Biol 1991; 115:67-73. [PMID: 1918140 PMCID: PMC2289924 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.115.1.67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A new microscope technique, termed "W" (double view video) microscopy, enables simultaneous observation of two different images of an object through a single video camera or by eye. The image pair may, for example, be transmission and fluorescence, fluorescence at different wavelengths, or mutually perpendicular components of polarized fluorescence. Any video microscope can be converted into a dual imager by simple insertion of a small optical device. The continuous appearance of the dual image assures the best time resolution in existing and future video microscopes. As an application, orientations of actin protomers in individual, moving actin filaments have been imaged at the video rate. Asymmetric calcium influxes into a cell exposed to an intense electric pulse have also been visualized.
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- K Kinosita
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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Electric pulses of intensity in kilovolts per centimeter and of duration in microseconds to milliseconds cause a temporary loss of the semipermeability of cell membranes, thus leading to ion leakage, escape of metabolites, and increased uptake by cells of drugs, molecular probes, and DNA. A generally accepted term describing this phenomenon is "electroporation." Other effects of a high-intensity electric field on cell membranes include membrane fusions, bleb formation, cell lysis... etc. Electroporation and its related phenomena reflect the basic bioelectrochemistry of cell membranes and are thus important for the study of membrane structure and function. These phenomena also occur in such events as electric injury, electrocution, and cardiac procedures involving electric shocks. Electroporation has found applications in: (a) introduction of plasmids or foreign DNA into living cells for gene transfections, (b) fusion of cells to prepare heterokaryons, hybridoma, hybrid embryos... etc., (c) insertion of proteins into cell membranes, (d) improving drug delivery and hence effectiveness in chemotherapy of cancerous cells, (e) constructing animal model by fusing human cells with animal tissues, (f) activation of membrane transporters and enzymes, and (g) alteration of genetic expression in living cells. A brief review of mechanistic studies of electroporation is given.
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- T Y Tsong
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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Tekle E, Astumian RD, Chock PB. Electroporation by using bipolar oscillating electric field: an improved method for DNA transfection of NIH 3T3 cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:4230-4. [PMID: 2034667 PMCID: PMC51632 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.10.4230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Using the plasmid DNA pSV2-neo (which, when integrated into the cellular genome confers resistance to the antibiotic G418 for selection), we examined and compared the transfection efficiency on NIH 3T3 cells electropermeabilized by applying a sequence of high-frequency unipolar or bipolar square waves or a single square pulse. Results show that a bipolar square wave is, at least, 1.7- and 5.5-fold more efficient than the unipolar square wave and single square pulse, respectively. In the range of electric field strength used for optimum transfection, the survivability of electropermeabilized cells was comparable between the unipolar and bipolar square waves but fell considerably with the single square pulse. Qualitative comparison of cell permeabilization induced by the three types of wave forms and monitored by ethidium bromide uptake revealed that only the bipolar square wave permeabilizes the cell membrane symmetrically at the two hemispheres facing the electrodes. With unipolar square wave or single square pulse, the membrane is permeabilized either on one side or asymmetrically. Taken together, our result suggests that permeabilization of the membrane at multiple sites without affecting cell survivability may account for the improvements in transfection efficiency observed with bipolar oscillating electric fields.
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- E Tekle
- Section on Metabolic Regulation, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Hibino M, Shigemori M, Itoh H, Nagayama K, Kinosita K. Membrane conductance of an electroporated cell analyzed by submicrosecond imaging of transmembrane potential. Biophys J 1991; 59:209-20. [PMID: 2015385 PMCID: PMC1281132 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(91)82212-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Transmembrane potential was induced in a sea urchin egg by applying a microsecond electric pulse across the cell. The potential was imaged at a submicrosecond time resolution by staining the cell membrane with the voltage-sensitive fluorescent dye RH292. Under moderate electric fields, the spatial distribution of the induced potential as well as its time dependence were in accord with the theoretical prediction in which the cell membrane was regarded as an insulator. At higher field intensities, however, the potential apparently did not fully develop and tended to saturate above a certain level. The saturation is ascribed to the introduction of a large electrical conductance, in the form of aqueous openings, in the membrane by the action of the induced potential (electroporation). Comparison of the experimental and theoretical potential profiles indicates that the two regions of the membrane that opposed the electrodes acquired a high membrane conductance of the order of 1 S/cm2 within 2 microseconds from the onset of the external field. The conductance was similar in the two regions, although permeability in the two regions of the membrane long after the pulse treatment appeared quite different.
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- M Hibino
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
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Marszalek P, Liu DS, Tsong TY. Schwan equation and transmembrane potential induced by alternating electric field. Biophys J 1990; 58:1053-8. [PMID: 2248989 PMCID: PMC1281048 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(90)82447-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The transmembrane potential generated by an alternating electric field (ac) depends strongly on the frequency of the field and can be calculated using the Schwan Equation. We have measured the critical electric breakdown potential, delta psi crit, of the plasma membrane of murine myeloma cell line (Tib9) using ac fields, by monitoring the entry of a fluorescence probe, propidium iodide, into the cells. This dye is weakly fluorescent in solution but becomes strongly fluorescent when it binds to DNA. Experiments were done under a microscope by direct visual examination of single cells or by examining photographic prints. When an ac field reached the intensity, Ecrit, that generated a maximal membrane potential delta psi max, equal to or greater than the delta psi crit, the membrane was perforated at the two loci facing the electrodes. The dye diffused into the cell, giving rise to two bright, narrow bands, which expanded to the whole cell in 1-3 min. delta psi crit's were measured in three media of different resistivities, rho ext, (52,600, 7,050, and 2,380 omega cm), over the range of 0.1-300 kHz, with the field duration of 200 ms. Regression analysis based on the Schwan Equation showed that in a medium of given resistivity, the delta psi crit was constant over the frequency range studied. When the capacitance of the membrane, Cmembr, was taken to be 0.90 microF cm-2, the resistivity of the cytoplasmic medium, rho int, was determined to be 910-1,100 omega cm. The delta psi crit were 0.33, 0.48, and 0.53 V, respectively, for the three media in decreasing resistivities. The good fit of these data to the curves calculated using the Schwan Equation indicates that the equation may be used to describe the transmembrane potential of a living cell generated by an oscillating electric field.
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- P Marszalek
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, St. Paul 55108
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Dimitrov DS, Sowers AE. A delay in membrane fusion: lag times observed by fluorescence microscopy of individual fusion events induced by an electric field pulse. Biochemistry 1990; 29:8337-44. [PMID: 2174698 DOI: 10.1021/bi00488a020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Low light level video microscopy of the fusion of DiI- (1,1'-dihexadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate) labeled rabbit erythrocyte ghosts with unlabeled rabbit erythrocyte ghosts, held in stable apposition by dielectrophoresis in sodium phosphate buffers, showed reproducible time intervals (delays) between the application of a single fusogenic electric pulse and the earliest detection of fluorescence in the unlabeled adjacent membranes. The delay increased over the range 0.3-4 s with a decrease in (i) the electric field strength of the fusion-inducing pulse from 1000 to 250 V/mm, (ii) the decay half-time of the fusogenic pulse in the range 1.8-0.073 ms, and (iii) the dielectrophoretic force which brings the membranes into close apposition. A change in the buffer viscosity from 1.8 to 10 mP.s caused the delay to increase from 0.36 to 3.7 s (in glycerol solutions) or to 5.2 s (in sucrose solutions). The delay decreased 2-3 times with an increase in temperature from 21 to 37 degrees C. It did not differ significantly for "white" ghosts [0.013 mM hemoglobin (Hb)] or "red" ghosts (0.15 mM Hb) or buffer strength over the range 5-60 mM (sodium phosphate, pH 8.5). The calculated activation energy, 17 kcal/mol, does not depend on the field strength. The yield of fused cells was high when the delay was short. The delay in electrofusion resembles the delays in pH-dependent fusion of vesicular stomatitis viruses with erythrocyte ghosts [Clague, M. J., Schoch, C., Zech, L., & Blumenthal, R. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 1303-1308] and of fibroblasts expressing influenza hemagglutinin and red blood cells [Morris, S. J., Sarkar, D.P., White, J. M., & Blumenthal, R. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 3972-3978].(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D S Dimitrov
- Cell Biology, Holland Laboratory, American Red Cross, Rockville, Maryland 20855
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Dimitrov DS, Sowers AE. Membrane electroporation--fast molecular exchange by electroosmosis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1022:381-92. [PMID: 1690573 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(90)90289-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Human and rabbit erythrocyte ghosts loaded with FITC-dextran (mol. mass = 10 kDa) and NBD-glucosamine (mol. mass = 342 Da) in buffers of different ionic strength and composition were subjected to electric pulses (intensity 0.7 kV/mm and decay half-time 1 ms) at 7-10 degrees C and 20-24 degrees C. The transfer of the fluorescent dyes from the interior of the ghosts through the electropores was observed by low light level video microscopy. The pulses caused the fluorescence to appear outside the membranes as a transient cylindrical cloud directed toward the negative electrode during the first video frame (17 ms). It was similar in both rabbit and human erythrocyte ghosts and at both temperatures but differs for the two dyes, the fluorescence cylinder is long and tall for the FITC-dextran and relatively short and thick for the NBD-glucosamine. The molecular exchange was 2-3 orders of magnitude faster within the first 17 ms after the pulse than the diffusional exchange. It decreased with increasing ionic strength. Formulae for the transfer of molecules by electroosmotic flow through the pores are in agreement with these observations. They allow estimation of the total area of pores with radii larger than that of the fluorescent dye during the pulse. The major conclusion is that electroosmosis is the dominating mechanism of molecular exchange in electroporation of erythrocyte ghosts.
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- D S Dimitrov
- American Red Cross, Holland Laboratory/Cell Biology, Rockville, MD 20855
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Sowers AE. Evidence that electrofusion yield is controlled by biologically relevant membrane factors. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 985:334-8. [PMID: 2804114 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(89)90422-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Rabbit + rabbit and human + human combinations of erythrocyte ghost membranes were fused under the same conditions with an electric pulse. Storage at 4 degrees C of ghost membranes from both rabbit and human erythrocytes showed no change with time but storage of the erythrocytes for various periods before ghost preparation showed consistent storage-dependent changes in fusion yield.
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- A E Sowers
- Holland Laboratory for the Biochemical Sciences, Rockville, MD 20855
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Sowers AE. Electrofusion of dissimilar membrane fusion partners depends on additive contributions from each of the two different membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 985:339-42. [PMID: 2804115 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(89)90423-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Rabbit erythrocyte ghost (REG) membranes and human erythrocyte ghosts (HEG) were aligned into contact by dielectrophoresis and fused with an electric pulse in REG + REG, HEG + HEG, and REG + HEG combinations. REG + HEG fusion yields were approximately midway between fusion yields for REG + REG and HEG + HEG over a wide range of pulse characteristics.
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- A E Sowers
- Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences, Rockville, MD 20855
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Electroporation can be a highly efficient method for introducing DNA molecules into cultured cells for transient expression of genes or for permanent genetic modification. However, effective transformation by electroporation requires careful optimization of electric field strength and pulse characteristics. We have used the transient expression of the firefly luciferase gene as a rapid and sensitive indicator of gene expression to describe the effects on transfection efficiency of altering electroporation field strength and shape. Using the luciferase assay, we investigated the correlation of cell viability with optimal transfection efficiency and determined the optimal parameters for a number of phenotypically distinct mammalian cell lines derived from the nervous and immune systems. The efficiency of electroporation under optimal conditions was compared with that obtained using DEAE-dextran or calcium phosphate-mediated transformation. Transfection by electroporation using square wave pulses, as opposed to exponentially decaying pulses, was found to be significantly increased by repetitive pulses. These methods improve the ability to obtain high efficiency gene transfer into many mammalian cell types.
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- G L Andreason
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92138-9126
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Blangero C, Rols MP, Teissié J. Cytoskeletal reorganization during electric-field-induced fusion of Chinese hamster ovary cells grown in monolayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 981:295-302. [PMID: 2567186 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(89)90040-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Mammalian cells were shown to fuse after direct electric pulsation of the plated cells in culture. The extent of fusion was controlled by the duration of the post-pulse incubation. Formation of polynucleated cells was slow, even at 37 degrees C. Pre-pulse incubation with colchicine increased the fusion yield slightly. Cytoskeletal organization during the post-pulse incubation was observed using immunofluorescence techniques. Microfilaments were unaffected, but microtubules disappeared during the first minutes following the pulse, and then reformed on subsequent incubation.
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- C Blangero
- Centre de Biochimie et de Génétique cellulaires du CNRS, Toulouse, France
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