Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 32, Issue 23, Pages 3446-3453Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/elps.201100086
Keywords
Chemoresistance; Double-layer chip; Lung cancer; Microchip-based systems; SPCA-1
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30470464, 30670532]
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Integration and miniaturization are main advantages of microchip-based systems. Vertical integration of the multiple operations within a multiple-layer chip is expected to satisfy the urgent demand for high-throughput and large-scale applications. This study aimed at establishing a double-layer chip to integrate the operations including the cell culture, the identification of the protein and the detection of the cell viability onto a platform systematically and supplied with flow fresh medium continuously via a syringe pump to mimic the microenvironment in vivo. With this device, human non-small cell lung cancer cell line (SPCA-1) was cultured well; the expression and the activity of multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP1) were detected by immunofluorescence assay for the cells pretreated with or without MK-571, a known inhibitor of MRP1; apoptosis percentages were assayed for the cells after being treated by the anticancer drug etoposide (VP-16). The results demonstrated that the function of the MRP1 was inhibited by MK-571, and the percentage of apoptotic for the cells pretreated with MK-571 was higher than that of the control (38.2 +/- 2.5% versus 12.3 +/- 0.85%, p<0.005). All these indicated that the new device could provide a suitable condition for cell culture and functional analysis in biomedical research, and MK-571 is an effective inhibitor of MRP1 associated with the viability of SPCA-1 cell line treated by VP-16.
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