Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 40, Issue 18-19, Pages 2592-2600Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elps.201900026
Keywords
Dielectrophoretic; Electrokinetics; Glioblastoma stem cells; Microfluidics; Spheroid culture
Funding
- National Institute of Health Funding Source: Medline
- NIH HHS [R01CA213423] Funding Source: Medline
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Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are aggressive subpopulations with increased stem-like properties. CSCs are usually resistant to most standard therapies and are responsible for tumor repropagation. Similar to normal stem cells, isolation of CSCs is challenging due to the lack of reliable markers. Antigen-based sorting of CSCs usually requires staining with multiple markers, making the experiments complicated, expensive, and sometimes unreliable. Here, we study the feasibility of using dielectrophoresis (DEP) for isolation of glioblastoma cells with increased stemness. We culture a glioblastoma cell line in the form of neurospheres as an in vitro model for glioblastoma stem cells. We demonstrate that spheroid forming cells have higher expression of stem cell marker, nestin. Next, we show that dielectric properties of neurospheres change as a result of changing culture conditions. Our results indicate that spheroid forming cells need higher voltages to experience the same DEP force magnitude compared to normal monolayer cultures of glioblastoma cell line. This study confirms the possibility of using DEP to isolate glioblastoma stem cells.
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