Infrared Microspectroscopy: A Multiple-Screening Platform for Investigating Single-Cell Biochemical Perturbations upon Prion Infection

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Didonna, Alessandro
Vaccari, Lisa
Bek, Alpan
Legname, Giuseppe
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Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by the accumulation of prions in the central nervous system. The pathogenic prion (PrPSc) possesses the capability to convert the host-encoded cellular isoform of the prion protein, PrPC, into nascent PrPSc. The present work aims at providing novel insight into cellular response upon prion infection evidenced by synchrotron radiation infrared microspectroscopy (SR-IRMS). This non-invasive, label-free analytical technique was employed to investigate the biochemical perturbations undergone by prion infected mouse hypothalamic GT1-1 cells at the cellular and subcellular level. A decrement in total cellular protein content upon prion infection was identified by infrared (IR) whole-cell spectra and validated by bicinchoninic acid assay and single-cell volume analysis by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) of IR data discriminated between infected and uninfected cells and allowed, to deduce an increment of lysosomal bodies within the cytoplasm of infected GT1-1 cells, a hypothesis further confirmed by SR-IRMS at subcellular spatial resolution and fluorescent microscopy. The purpose of this work, therefore, consists of proposing IRMS as a powerful multiscreening platform, drawing on the synergy with conventional biological assays and microscopy techniques in order to increase the accuracy of investigations performed at the single-cell level.
Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Medicine
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41070
ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Department of Physics, Article

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A. Didonna, L. Vaccari, A. Bek, and G. Legname, “Infrared Microspectroscopy: A Multiple-Screening Platform for Investigating Single-Cell Biochemical Perturbations upon Prion Infection,” ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE, pp. 160–174, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41070.
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