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single species of radical into cells. And the detection process is simpler. However, it was | single species of radical into cells. And the detection process is simpler. However, it was | ||
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Revision as of 02:12, 18 October 2018
Oxidation damage, aging and relative diseases are highly related to human health. Antioxidants are currently effective treatments. However, detection approaches to antioxidant are quite limited, especially in living-cells. Traditional methods largely focused on direct redox reaction which may have non-proper relation to living systems. Living cells are integrated with multiple natural anti-oxidant systems, including anti-oxidant enzyme system, reductive system, post-damage repair system, etc. All these make it sophisticated to evaluate real effects from exogenous antioxidant. To date, substantial efforts have been devoted to developing alternative strategies that can overcome the disadvantages and difficulties of online antioxidant detection in living cells .There is still no ideal result. One promising and challenging method for accomplishing this purpose is to construct a "living antioxidant detection device" via synthetic biology method. Yeast was used as host cell as it can present a simple and accurate measuring platform for us. Furthermore, we constructed multiple functional gene circuits to implement ROS regulating, endogenous redox reaction testing, and feedback regulation, etc. These results together demonstrate the excellent potential of this project in detecting antioxidant easily, accurately, fast and economically.
Ancient times, searching for anti-aging ways and secret of life's aging attract have been attracting countless passionate people.
Since 19th century, people have gradually realized the significance of antioxidants in solving the anti-aging puzzle and launched tireless exploration.
With the development of analytical methods and detection methods (such as L-band electron spin resonance (ESR), various probes, magnetic resonance imaging spin trapping and so on)，researchers have more confidence and ability to detect antioxidants. Besides, driven by the public's eagerness for health and beauty, many chemical detection methods emerged around the 20th century. (such as, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC), total oxyradical scavenge capacity (TOSC), the peroxyl scavenging capacity (PSC), the ferric reducing/antioxidant power assay (FRAP), Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) and so on)
The main measurement principle of chemistry methods is to characterize the reducibility of antioxidants by redox reaction with kinds of oxyradical. Chemistry methods has the advantages of handy, efficiency and accuracy.
However, this measurement principle is one-dimensional. On the one hand, its detecting conditions are almost different from the physiological environment that cell live in so that chemistry methods can't evaluate the antioxidant capability of antioxidants in the complicated metabolic process. On the other hand, living cells are integrated with multiple natural anti-oxidant systems, including anti-oxidant enzyme system, reductive system, post-damage repair system and so on in which antioxidants play a significant role and chemistry methods can't provide the stage of living cell. By the way, in 2012, USDA's Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) removed the USDA ORAC Database for Selected Foods from the NDL website because of the poor authenticity and low credibility of the chemistry methods. To sum up, the disadvantages of the chemical methods are two key words, low biological relevance and low credibility.
So, we design a detection system based on living cells that create a living-cell stage for antioxidants' performance. This improves biological relevance and credibility and the living cell is yeast, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.
We chose yeast as the chassis cell of the product rather than HepG2 liver cancer cells, macrophage cells or Caco-2 colon cancer cells ect. Why?
- ● First, as we all know, the early researches on the mechanism of human diseases were explained by means of model organism yeast.
- ● Second, aging of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in stationary culture, often referred to as 'chronological aging', is a frequently applied system to study aging of eukaryotic cells.
- ● Last but not least, recently, human beings have the ability to synthesize yeast genome, which is an amazing breakthrough in the history of understanding of nature. Therefore, we choose yeast because of its practical application value and great potential in future.
Gradually. people realized the defects of the chemical methods, and began to detect antioxidants through animal model and human study which has higher biological relevance and credibility, after all the 21st century is a century for life science. Unfortunately, animal model and human study are time-consuming and expensive so that the initial antioxidants detect is not suitable. There's no doubt that cell-based detect is faster and cost-effective.
That's also the reason why we design cell-based detect system.
In 2007, Cell-based detection was first reported in the literature (CAA assay), which was a breakthrough in the history of antioxidants detection methods and was referenced widely. CAA assay characterizes the consumption of antioxidants on synthetic ROS (ABAP for Peroxyl Radicals) after entering cells by the fluorescence intensity of DCFH-DA fluorescent probes. Regretfully, it also has some shortcoming.
- ● On the one hand, both fluorescent probes and free radicals are artificially added from the external environment, which means introducing exogenous interference and it is not a completely endogenous cell detection.
- ● On the other hand, the credibility of the DCFH-DA probe has been criticized in the literature and it is also a question whether the synthesized radicals (ABAP for Peroxyl Radicals) can represent the endogenous ROS accumulated in cells.
- ● On the one hand, in the system we designed the detection process needs to be completely intracellular without introducing exogenous interference.
- ● On the other hand, the signal we detect need to be representative of intracellular ROS. And we choose intracellular H2O2 as the final signal.
We choose intracellular H2O2 as the final signal to represent all kinds of ROS in cell and for this case our output component roGFP2-Orp1 has high H2O2-specificity. Why?
- ● Most intracellular ROS comes from mitochondria respiratory chain and all kinds of ROS will convert into H2O2 under the intracellular antioxidant enzyme system. Once H2O2 accumulated, it will transfer to the cytoplasm.
- ● H2O2 is the final form of all kinds of ROS.
- ● roGFP2-Orp1 exists in cytoplasm.
The choice of intracellular H2O2 as the final signal has higher representativeness than other choices.
The following is a comparison between the CAA assay and two core modules of our project, for that illustrate our design and improvement specifically.
● Accumulation mode of ROS
Artificially add ROS generator, exogenous.
● Representativeness of ROS
A single kind of radical
● Limit of Use
Consumables, non-renewable.
● Method of Regulation
Control Dose.
● output signal
Fluorescence intensity of DCFH-DA.
● Artificial Addition
● Limit of Use
Take one sample for one detection.
● ROS Kit, 88$.
● Method of Use
It needs series of operations.
(yon1 expression cassette)
● Accumulation mode of ROS
Accumulate ROS by overexpress yon1 gene., endogenous.
● Representativeness of ROS
Endogenous accumulation of Integrated ROS by yeast cells.
Simulate the natural process of yeast cells oxidation.
● Limit of use
Durables. Once Yeast Transformation = Permanent Use
● Method of Regulation
Regulate the expression level of inducible promoter.
(roGFP2-Orp1 expression cassette)
● output signal
Fluorescence intensity of roGFP2-Orp1 fusion protein.
● Intracellular synthesis.
● Intracellular Constant Expression.
The reaction of roGFP2-Orp1 to ROS is reversible.
Real-time Monitoring.
Once Yeast Transformation = Permanent Use.
● Method of Use
We integrated its advantages and improved its shortcomings. Actually, the output components helped us save a lot of money rather than buying DCFH-DA probe.
Cell-based method MTT appeared in the same period as CAA. Their ideas and strategy are similar and don't need not be detailed here. MTT improved the disadvantage that CAA can only throw a single species of radical into cells. And the detection process is simpler. However, it was criticized because the text conditions is too extreme for living cells, which may not be representative of physiological settings.
This critical voice also reminds us that modest cell survival is necessary, considering that increase the ROS content by regulator components will increase stress of cells. Therefore, to improve the stability and reliability of product, and make it more durable. We designed the tolerance module.
Yca1 encodes synthesis of metacaspase, a homologue of the mammalian caspase, and plays a crucial role in the regulation of yeast apoptosis. According to the literature, knock out yca1 can improve the yeast tolerance to ROS, so we just do it. As a result, engineered strain can work at high ROS level.
Today is the age of interdisciplinary integration. Cell-based detection combined with traditional electrochemistry, which is a landmark in the history of antioxidants detection. The cell-based electrochemical method uses NaAlg/GO hydrogels and 3D culture system to place cells in electrochemical workstation and adds nanoscale electrode materials for sensing intracellular ROS. It has good reproducibility and stability and is simple and rapid. However, it is still unable to achieve high-throughput screening for antioxidants and is difficult to popularize because of limitation of materials and instrument.
21th century will become the new epoch of synthetic biology. As time goes on, synthetic biology is emerging in more and more fields and gives unique strategies to address kinds of problem. The plug-and-play characteristic