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Long-term fluorescence of erythrosine in alive mammalian cells
Valeriya Maryakhina
Orenburg State University, 13 Pobedy st., Orenburg, 460018, Russia e-mail: valemar@mail.ru
Abstract. Investigation of triplet states of probes molecules located in cells and tissues is used for research of pathological processes included cancer development due to high sensitivity of triplet states lifetime to surround medium. In the work the long-term fluorescence of erythrosine located in alive mammalian cells has been analyzed by mathematical simulation. The model considers all basic processes of relaxation of probe triplet states in biological media. It is obtained that signal intensity and its form depends on oxygen concentration and viscosity of cells cytoplasm in which the dye diffuses. Interaction of erythrosine with the variety of extinguishers (included immobilization process into peptides molecules) does not impact on signal of the delayed fluorescence. Their concentration impact on cell viscosity mean only. The most important extinguisher is molecular oxygen impacting on signal. The correlation between theoretical and experimental results let to consider that the model is adequate. © 2016 Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering.
Keywords: long-term fluorescence, erythrosine, singlet oxygen, mammalian cells, fluorescent diagnostics.
Paper #3078 received 2016.07.18 revised manuscript received 2016.09.22; accepted for publication 2016.09.29; published online 2016.09.30. doi: 10.18287/JBPE16.02.030303
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1 Introduction
Investigation of triplet states of probes molecules located in cells and tissues is used for research of pathological processes included cancer development [see, for example, 1, 2]. It can be possible due to high sensitivity of triplet states lifetime to surround medium. Nowadays, it is considered that lifetime of triplet states of fluorescein derivatives (erythrosine, eosine and rose bengal) located in cells depends on oxygen and peptide concentration in medium primarily because it is a basic quenchers of triplet states. So, mean of erythrosine lifetime may be from 4 ^s in oxygen containing medium [3] to 700 [4] ^s in polymethylmethacrylate where oxygen concentration is a little. Interaction of fluoresceine derivative with peptide had also investigated in detail [5,6]. However, change of lifetime of probe triplet states can be as either positive or negative role in biomedical diagnostics. On one hand, it can be as an indicator of change of cell cytoplasm for pathology present. On another hand, data of spectral-kinetic measurements are different even at a little change of parameter, for example, room temperature. It creates additional error in signal registration. Because of it, the most important limited processes with fluorophores triplet states participation at registration of long-term fluorescence need to know. This task can be solved by different experimental methods but it requests huge quantities of additional experiments.
Thus, the aim of the research is definition of the basic photophysical processes at registration of long-term fluorescence of erythrosine impacting on signal formation by the mathematical simulation. These results were obtained in according with our preview experimental results [7] for development of the optical techniques of biomedical diagnostics of pathologies.
2 The object and methods of experimental investigation
Normal and cancer mammalian cells were obtained by enzyme treatment of respective tissues cells of female mice (line BYRB) with spontaneous malignant tumors during 40 minutes at 37 oC. After that the received cell suspension was placed on the nutrient medium (biomaterial "Hyamatrix" [8]) and was incubated during
several days at 37 oC. The fragmants of biomaterial with cultivated cells were coloured by erythrosine water solution with the concentration 10-4 M. This dye was selected due to its high quantum yield in triplet state, intensive phosphorescence, high dissolving degree in water and penetration possibility into cells [9].
Registration of kinetics of the delayed fluorescence of dye was after radiation by the second harmonic of Nd: YAG laser (X = 532 nm). Wave length of registration was 560 nm. Laser impulse was with durability 10 ns and energy 10 mDg. The samples for study were placed in a special evacuated chamber. The air pressure (oxygen concentration) above the surface of coloured biopolymer changed from 0.3 to 1.0 atm. Description of the device in detail is in [8].
3 The experimental results
The experimental curves of long-term fluorescence of erythrosine located in cancer and normal mammary cells are depicted on figure 1. As you can see, the curves have hump-shaped type. It means that processes with molecular oxygen participation are during signal registration. For coloring cells, the part of nutrient medium can be also colored. Because of it, additionally the long-term fluorescence was measured from nutrient medium colored by erythrosine. As we described earlier [8], the kinetics has hyperbolic type and does not depend on pressure above samples. Consequently, it defines by annihilation of near-located of triplet molecules of dye only. Nature of the long-term fluorescence of erythrosine located in cells is more interest and does not define unambiguously. In the next section analysis of the fluorescence signal is described by numerical simulation.
4 The mathematical model
Erythrosine molecule is excited to the first singlet state S1 and transfers to the first triplet state T1 by way S0^ S1^T1 (Fig. 2) after laser impulse. Since lifetime of erythrosine is more in three times than laser impulse duration, we will describe processes being after laser impulse, that is, processes of relaxation of triplet states will be considered only.
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Energy \
- 1,0
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..........'nn(
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mental curves of long-te f erythrosine located in norn ■ air pressure above samples (
nd (2).
К dt
àK dt
N dt dN
■ = -kNa, + k7N )NT - 2k4К - k3NTNB - КNT ;
-= -k6 NrN0, + (k7 NT + k5)NЛ ;
■ = k6NTN0, - (k7NT + ЮNЛ ;
dt
dN, dt dN
- = k6 NrN0, + k4N + k3NTNB + k2 N ;
(7)
1=k7Nл nt+k4 Щ;
dB = ^;
dN, dt
A = k3NTNB.
where k5 = 1/т^ - singlet oxygen relaxation (s" ), k7 -rate constant of singlet-triplet annihilation (cm3s~l), karate constant of quenching triplet states of erythrosine by molecular oxygen (cmV1), NT, N0, N1, - quantity of molecules in triplet, basic and the first excited state of dye (cm"3), NB, NB1 - quantity of molecules in basic and excited states of peptides (cm"3); k2- rate constant of phosphorescence (s"1), k4 - rate constant of triplet-triplet annihilation (s"1), k3- rate constant of energy transfer from erythrosine to peptide (cmV1).
For solution of the system of differential equations means of the parameters need to know. Now we will describe theirs in detail. First of all, phosphorescence is monomolecular process with inversely proportional rate to the lifetime of triplet states of molecules. The lifetime is 700 ^s for quenchers absent [4]. Thus,
In point of investigation results of Krasnovsky we can conclude that lifetime of singlet oxygen in somatic cells is nearly 3 ^s [14]. Thus, rate of singlet oxygen relaxation is
k5 = — = —— = 0.3106 s-1. 5 T 3-10-6
The rate constants k6 k7 can be also calculated for kinetic method as well as k4. Because of equality of molecule radiuses of singlet and triplet oxygen, these coefficients will be equal and are
k6 = k = 16.0 -10-21 em's-1
6 7
We note that coefficients k3, k5 and k2 are significantly higher than other coefficients k4, k6 and k7. Consequently, they cannot be considered in the researched time region. Thus, the system of equations (7) can be simplify and is
dN,
dt
dt
dN
T = -(k6N0 + k7Nд )NT - 2kAN2T;
- = -k NTN0 + k7NTNд ;
6 T O2 7 T Д '
dt
dN
д = k N N - k N N ■
6 T 02 7 T д
(8)
—0 = k NTN0 + k NT; dt 6 T 0 4
dN
1 = k N N + k N
dt 7 Д TT T
k =
1
1
2 T h 700 -10-6
ph
= 0.14 104 .
The rate constant of triple-triplet annihilation can be calculated by formulae
= Ш . r + /i = 3.9-10.uсизя-,| 4 3n r ■ r2
with initial conditions
NT (0) = 1; N,(0) = 0; N o(0) = 0; N д (0) = 0; N<0) = X.
where r- radiuses of molecules interacting each other, nm (for this case r = r2); k - Boltzmann constant; T-temperature, K; n- viscosity, Pz. We assume that temperature was 330 К. Viscosity of cell cytoplasm was from 1 to 8ocP in according to work [12]. Radius of erythrosine molecule was calculated for its density p in dry state and molecular weight M as
Since accurate initial concentration of oxygen in somatic cells is unknown, the value is marked as X. In the model we can consider ratio between NT and NO2 only. All calculations will be carried out in according to the ratio.
Finally, kinetics of long-term fluorescence of molecules is given as
3-M
4 p-n-Na
The rate coefficient k3 was obtained by Melnikov A.G. with coauthors and is 3-106 M"1s"1 [13].
IDF (t) = 9/A (t)NA (t) + kANT (t) + 9flk,NT (t), (9)
where 9- quantum yield of fluorescence.
The first summand in (9) is annihilation contribution with singlet oxygen participation; the second summand is triplet"triplet annihilation and the third"
r= 3
termoactivation process. Since in somatic cells intercombinational conversion is significantly faster than diffusion processes, final signal will be a sum of the first and the second summand.
5 Numerical results and their discussion
In the figure 3 the calculated curves of long-term fluorescence of erythrosine for viscosity mean 2 cP are shown for different oxygen concentrations. Signal intensity increases when oxygen concentration rises. It is concluded that oxygen concentration impacts on signal intensity primarily. These curves are identical after their normalizing (curve 4). This result is unexpected and contradics to work [3] but the experimental curves have similar dependence (fig. 1) in which oxygen pressure above samples is 0.5 and 0.8 atm. Time of relaxation of triplet states is significantly different because these curves were calculated for means of viscosity and ratio Nt:N0 differ from these means for cells. The next analysis will show accurate parameters means.
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Fig. 3 The calculated curves of long-term fluorescence of erythrosine for viscosity mean 2 cP for ratio: 1- Nt:N0 = 1:0.001; 2- Nt:N0 = 1:0.005; 3- Nt:N0 = 1:0.01. Curve (4) is normalized curves (1-3). The curves are connected by B-spline.
Earlier Bryukhanov with coauthors [3] had shown that maximum of long-term fluorescence rises and shifts to short time region in polymer media when oxygen concentration increases. However, biological samples differ for viscosity not only but metabolic processes are also. As a result, oxygen concentration within it is constantly changing. It is reason to assume that oxygen concentration is not unique factor impacting on form of the delayed fluorescence signal.
The most sensitive parameter to the delayed fluorescence is cytoplasm viscosity. Signal intensity is changed not only but its form is changed also (Fig. 4). All curves on the figure are connected by B-spline function. Dots are not depicted in some curves for most visibility.
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Fig. 4 The calculated curves of erythrosine located in somatic cells for viscosity mean 1, 2, 4 cP and ratio oxygen concentration NT:NO2 = 1:0.001. Solid lines are the calculated curves; dotted lines are the curves after their normalizing.
Viscosity is parameter from which diffusion coefficient depends. Viscosity decreasing lead to delay diffuse-controlled processes such us triplet-triplet and singlet-triplet annihilations (eq. 3-5). As a result, decline of kinetics from 5 to 40 ¡is is a gently sloping but curve maximum is slower and shifts to long-time region.
In the figure 5 the experimental and calculated curves of erythrosine located in normal and cancer mammalian cells have shown. As you can see, the calculated curves as well as the experimental kinetics are crossed at 10^12 ¡is. The most positive correlation is for normal cells NT:NO2 = 1:0.02 and 2 cP; for cancer cells NT:NO2 = 1:0.001 and 6 cP. In according to this calculation, cytoplasm viscosity of cancer cells is significantly more than for normal cells. It is confirmed by data of another scientific group [15]. In another work data about viscosity of cancer cells are as 4.5 cP [12]. Furthermore, NT:NO2 for cancer cells is less than for normal cells in 5 times, i.e., oxygen concentration decreasing is looked at. Really, cancer cells differ from normal cell by hypoxia [16] connected on accelerated oxygen consumption and its concentration decreasing.
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Fig. 5 The experimental (1, 2) and calculated (3,4) curves of long-term fluorescence of eruthrosine in normal (1,3) and cancer (2,4) mammalian cells measured for atmosphere pressure above samples.
6 Conclusion
In the work we descussed all basic processes which can impact on to form signal of the delayed fluorescence of xanthene dyes. Inspite of variety of quenchers in cells, extinguishing by molecular oxygen lead to signal changing only. Interaction of erythrosine with other quenchers, included peptides, unsignificant impacts on the signal. On another hand, peptides and organells concentration increasing lead to viscosity rising. This factor also impacts on diffusion-controlled processes and signal forming.
The obtained results can be useful for investigation of fluorescence signals of triplet probes and photosensitizers in biological media and for development of optical techniques of biomedical diagnostics.
Acknowledgments
Author thanks prof. Letuta S.N. for discussing results. The work is partically supported by President fellowship SP-2015-273.4 and Ministry of education and science of Russia. (agreement №450).
