Visual quantification of prostaglandin E2 discharge from a single cell
Description
Calcium transients drive cells to discharge prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). The authors visualized PGE2-induced protein kinase A (PKA) activation and quantitated PGE2 secreted from a single cell by combining fluorescence microscopy and a simulation model. For this purpose, they first prepared PGE2-producer cells that express either an optogenetic or a chemogenetic calcium channel stimulator: OptoSTIM1 (CRY2clust) or Gq-DREADD, respectively. Second, they prepared reporter cells expressing the Gs-coupled PGE2 reporter EP2 and the PKA biosensor Booster-PKA, which is based on the principle of Forster resonance FRET. Upon the stimulation-induced triggering of calcium transients, a single producer cell discharges PGE2 to stimulate PKA in the surrounding reporter cells. Due to the flow of the medium, the PKA-activated area exhibited a comet-like smear when HeLa cells were used. In contrast, radial PKA activation was observed when confluent MDCK cells were used, indicating that PGE2 diffusion was restricted to the basolateral space. By fitting the radius of the PKA-activated area to a simulation model based on simple diffusion, the authors estimated that a single HeLa cell secretes 0.25 fmol PGE2 upon a single calcium transient to activate PKA in more than 1000 neighboring cells. This model also predicts that the PGE2 discharge rate is comparable to the diffusion rate. Thus, their method quantitatively envisions that a single calcium transient affects more than 1000 neighboring cells via PGE2.
Financial
support was provided by JSPS KAKENHI grants (nos. 21K20773 to
T.W., 21H02715 and 21H05226 to K.T., and 19H00993, 20H05898,
22H04926 to M.M.), a JST Moonshot R&D grant (no. JPMJPS2022
to M.M.), a grant from Fugaku Foundation to M.M., and Research
Grants of Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund to K.T.
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12063 files / 287.6 GB
Image datasets
zipped 146 files / 62.5 GB, raw image 689 files / 77.0 GB, total 835 files / 139.5 GB
Quantitative datasets
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Time-lapse FRET images of Booster-PKA in reporter COX-DKO-HeLa cells expressing EP2 cocultured with producer HeLa cells in the presence of EP2/EP4 inhibitor