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Indexed by:期刊论文
Date of Publication:2018-05-01
Journal:ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Included Journals:PubMed、SCIE
Volume:90
Issue:9
Page Number:5825-5832
ISSN No.:0003-2700
Abstract:Despite rapid progresses in single-cell analysis technologies, efforts to control the three-dimensional micro-environment for single cell measurements have been lacking. Here, we report a simple method to incorporate three-dimensional scaffolds, including polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes and PVDF membrane replicated analog polydimethylsiloxane, into multiplexed single cell secretomic analysis platforms (including a microwell array and a single cell barcode microchip) to mimic the extracellular physical matrix and mechanical support for single cells. Applying this platform to brain tumor cell line U87 to investigate single cell protein secretion behavior on different substrates, we revealed that single cell protein secretions were regulated differently in three-dimensional (3D) microenvironments. This finding was further verified with intracellular cytokine staining, highlighting the significance of 3D single cell biomimetic platform can be easily adaptable to other three-dimensional cell culture scaffolds or other single cell assays and may become a broadly applicable three-dimensional single cell analysis system to study the effect of microenvironment conditions on cellular functional heterogeneity in vitro.