Real-time cell viability assays using a new anthracycline derivative DRAQ7®

Akagi, Jin, Kordon, Magdalena, Zhao, Hong, Matuszek, Anna, Dobrucki, Jurek, Errington, Rachel Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-4376, Smith, Paul James, Takeda, Kazuo, Darzynkiewicz, Zbigniew and Wlodkowic, Donald 2013. Real-time cell viability assays using a new anthracycline derivative DRAQ7®. Cytometry Part A 83A (2) , pp. 227-234. 10.1002/cyto.a.22228

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Abstract

The exclusion of charged fluorescent dyes by intact cells has become a well-established assay for determining viability of cells. In search for a noninvasive fluorescent probe capable of long-term monitoring of cell death in real-time, we evaluated a new anthracycline derivative DRAQ7. The novel probe does not penetrate the plasma membrane of living cells but when the membrane integrity is compromised, it enters and binds readily to nuclear DNA to report cell death. It proved to be nontoxic to a panel of cancer cell lines grown continuously for up to 72 h and did not induce any detectable DNA damage signaling when analyzed using laser scanning microscopy and flow cytometry. The DRAQ7 provided a sensitive, real-time readout of cell death induced by a variety of stressors such as hypoxia, starvation, and drug-induced cytotoxicity. The overall responses to anticancer agents and resulting pharmacological dose-response profiles were not affected by the growth of tumor cells in the presence DRAQ7. Moreover, we for the first time introduced a near real-time microflow cytometric assay based on combination of DRAQ7 and mitochondrial inner membrane potential (ΔΨm) sensitive probe TMRM. We provide evidence that this low-dosage, real-time labeling procedure provides multiparameter and kinetic fingerprint of anticancer drug action. © 2012 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	DRAQ7; real-time assays; cell viability; drug; cytotoxicity; DNA damage response; cell cycle; microfluidic; cytometry.
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1552-4922
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 10:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61236

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