Individual Acidic Organelle pH Measurements by Capillary Electrophoresis
- 4 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 78 (3) , 820-826
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac051513x
Abstract
This report describes the pH measurement of individual acidic organelles isolated from the human leukemia CCRF-CEM and CEM/C2 cells. These cells were allowed to endocytose fluorescein tetramethylrhodamine dextran (FRD), a ratiometric probe that has fluorescein as a pH-dependent fluorophore and tetramethylrhodamine as a pH-independent fluorophore. Isolated organelle fractions from these cells were then subjected to capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection (CE-LIF) analysis. The detection of individual organelle fluorescence at two different wavelengths, selected on the basis of the emission range of the FRD probe, gives a fluorescence intensity ratio used to calculate the pH from a calibration curve. This curve was constructed from CE-LIF measurements of individual liposomes loaded with several pH buffer standards. The respective median pH values are 5.1 ± 0.2 in CEM/C2 cells and 6.1 ± 0.4 in CCRF-CEM cells. These measurements compare well with pixel-based epifluorescence microscopy measurements of whole cells where the corresponding average pH values are 5.0 ± 0.6 (n = 15) and 6.2 ± 0.7 (n = 15). A pH comparison between the two cell types suggests that the lower pH in the CEM/C2 cells may be relevant to the protonation and sequestration of weak base anticancer drugs such as doxorubicin. The determination of the pH of individual vesicles, liposomes, and acidic organelles is a new resource for measuring and investigating the role of the acid−base properties of subcellular-size compartments.Keywords
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