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Metabolic Imaging in the Study of Oncological Processes (Review)
DOI: 10.17691/stm2016.8.4.16 Received November 9, 2015
M.M. Lukina, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Studying Optical Structure of Biotissues, Institute of Biomedical Technologies1; PhD Student, Department of Biophysics, Institute of Biology and Biomedicine2;
M.V. Shirmanova, PhD, Head of the laboratory of Individual Cancer Chemotherapy, Institute of Biomedical Technologies1;
T.F. Sergeeva, PhD, Researcher, Fluorescent Bioimaging laboratory, Institute of Biomedical Technologies1; E.V. Zagaynova, MD, DSc, Director, Institute of Biomedical Technologies1
1Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, 10/1 Minin and Pozharsky Square, Nizhny Novgorod, 603005, Russian Federation;
2Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, 23 Prospekt Gagarina, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russian Federation
There have been reviewed the main approaches to the study of energy metabolism in cancer cells, based on fluorescent imaging of NADH and FAD cofactors. The term "metabolic imaging" covers a range of modern fluorescent techniques for detecting NADH and FAD according to fluorescence intensity and/or lifetime. These cofactors play an important role in energy metabolism reactions acting as electron carriers and, being fluorescent, serve as a basis for metabolic process analysis in living cells and tissues without the use of additional coloring agents. Particular attention is paid to metabolic changes associated with carcinogenesis. Numerous examples of metabolic imaging application in cell cultures in vitro, animal and human tumors in vivo, as well as in patients' tumor biopsy samples have demonstrated its being highly demanded for biomedical research in the area of oncology.
Key words: metabolic imaging; energy metabolism; fluorescence lifetime; redox ratio; NADH; FAD; oxidative phosphorylation; glycolysis; tumor cells.
Cells need energy to maintain homeostasis. All processes of cell activity, such as generating concentration gradients, cytoskeleton movement, DNA repair, transcription, translation and vesicular transport, are energy-dependent. Energy metabolism of normal cells is known to differ significantly from cell metabolism in case of a disease. Therefore, the metabolic status can serve as an indicator for diagnosis and visualization of response to pathological process treatment. Taking into account high incidence of oncological diseases, assessment of metabolic phenotype of tumor cells is particularly urgent.
Development of optical visualization technologies has provided the possibility of noninvasive analysis of metabolic cofactors NADH and FAD in living tumor cells at high spatial resolution (up to several hundred
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nanometers) without using additional coloring agents and with no significant effect on biochemical and physiological condition of cells. The term "metabolic imaging" covers a range of modern fluorescent techniques which allow visualizing NADH and FAD according to their fluorescence intensity and/or lifetime.
The present review characterizes the properties of energy metabolism in cancer cells, describes the two key approaches to the assessment of metabolic status: analysis of cofactor fluorescence intensity ratio (redox ratio) and their fluorescence lifetime. There have been presented numerous examples of metabolic imaging application in cell cultures in vitro, animal and human tumors in vivo, as well as in patients' tumor biopsy samples.
Cofactors NADN and FAD and their role in cellular energy metabolism
The most important ways of cellular energy metabolism such as glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation are related to cellular respiration and ATP synthesis. Cofactors NADH and FAD which are present in the cell in an oxidized (NAD+, FAD) or reduced form (NADN, FADN2) play the role of electron donors and acceptors in reactions of ATP formation [1-7].
In the process of glycolysis, the glucose molecule is decomposed into two pyruvate molecules, with two NAD+ molecules being reduced to two NADH molecules and two ATP molecules formed in reactions of substrate-level phosphorylation [8, 9]:
C6H1206+2ADP+2H3P04+2NAD+= =2C3H403+2NADN2+2ATP+2H20.
Then the pyruvate molecule can be transported into the mitochondria where it is converted to acetyl coenzyme A as a result of dehydrogenation and decarboxylation reactions. These reactions take place with help of multifermental pyruvate dehydrogenase complex consisting of three enzymes: pyruvate-decarboxylase, dehydrolipoyl transacetylase and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (LipDH), as well as five coenzymes: thiamin diphosphate, lipoic acid, FAD, NAD+
and coenzyme A. Subsequently, acetyl coenzyme A joins Krebs cycle. Numerous dehydrogenase complexes in the mitochondria play an important role in regulation of NAD+/ NADH ratio and NADH pool which is a donor of electrons and protons for mitochondrial respiratory chain [10-13].
Oxidative phosphorylation is the most effective way of producing ATP, NADH is the primary donor and FAD is the primary electron and proton acceptor in mitochondrial respiratory chain. As a result of glycolysis and Krebs cycle reactions, one molecule degradation can lead to the production of 10 NADH molecules. In the process of tissue respiration, electrons and protons are transported from NADH onto oxygen through the respiratory chain complexes, with NADH being oxidized to NAD+ and protons moving from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space, which leads to generation of a proton gradient (electrochemical potential). The energy of electrochemical potential is used for ATP synthesis during the reverse transport of protons to the mitochondrial matrix by means of ATP synthase [14-16].
The overall diagram of NADH and FAD involvement in cellular energy metabolism reactions is as follows (Figure 1) [17].
Coenzymes NADH and FAD are able to fluoresce (Figure 2). NADH fluorescence excitation spectrum lies in the region of 300-400 nm with the peak wavelength of 355 nm, emission spectrum is in the region of
Figure 1. The diagram of metabolic cofactors NADH and FAD involvement in cellular energy metabolism [17]
Figure 2. NADH (a) and FAD (b) absorption and fluorescence spectra
400-600 nm with the maximum at A=470 nm. FAD fluorescence excitation spectrum is in the range of 350-500 nm with two maximums at 370 nm and 450 nm, emission spectrum is in the range of 500-600 nm with the maximum at A=525 nm [18-21].
Phosphorylated NADH (NADPH) has the same spectral properties as non-phosphorylated NADH, though it is not involved in energy metabolism reactions directly. The main NADPH source in the cell is pentose phosphate pathway (exclusive of the tissues where there is active synthesis of fatty acids and steroids and other reactions contribute to NADPH production). NADPH participates in biosynthesis of fatty acids, carotenoids and steroids. Besides, NADPH is of great importance to antioxidant systems, particularly, the glutathione-ascorbate cycle, and regulates the processes of passing cellular signals. Oxidized NADP+ maintains Ca2+ homeostasis in the cell [4-7]. According to the data reported in a number of papers, NADPH concentration in the cell is dozens of times lower than that of NADH, and fluorescence quantum yield is 1.25-2.5 times less [21-23]. As a rule, NADPH contribution is not taken into account in energy metabolism analysis.
NADH in the cell is in a free and protein-bound state. Free NADH is localized in cell cytosol and differs from the protein-bound form in emission spectrum (it is shifted 20 nm to the red). The main fluorescence in the blue range is emitted by protein-bound NADH localized in the mitochondria while the free form contribution is rather small [18], with protein-bound NADH quantum yield increasing nearly four times [20].
FAD in the cell is bound with mitochondrial enzymes called flavoproteins. FAD fluorescence is quenched by most of these enzymes, including succinate dehydrogenase which is the key enzyme in tricarboxylic acid cycle and the second complex of mitochondrial respiratory chain. About 50% of FAD fluorescence is emitted by LipDH-containing enzyme complexes, 25% by an electron carrier, flavoprotein, which serves as an intermediary accepting the electrons and protons from
fatty acids during (3-oxidation and transferring them to the ubiquinone pool. Though flavoproteins do not participate in glucose metabolism directly, they are capable of quenching FAD fluorescence when reductive-oxidative cell status changes [10, 11, 24, 25]. The last 25% of FAD fluorescence is emitted by sodium dithionite and it is not related to metabolism [10]. The ratio of the bound FAD to FADH2 increases as the rate of Krebs cycle reactions grows and it decreases when the rate of NADH oxidation in mitochondrial electron transport chain is inhibited [26].
Understanding the role of NADH and FAD in metabolic cell reactions is of utter importance for appropriate interpretation of the data obtained by fluorescent analysis. NADH is localized mainly in the mitochondria and participates predominantly in cellular energy metabolism, while FAD is contained in both cytoplasm and mitochondria and is involved, apart from oxidative phosphorylation, in various biochemical processes (glutathione utilization, lipogenesis, lipid peroxidation, antioxidant reactions, acetyl coenzyme A synthesis, the glutathione-ascorbate cycle, the pentose phosphate cycle), which considerably complicates data analysis [4, 13, 21, 27].
Metabolic properties of tumor cells
Tumor cells are characterized by active uncontrollable proliferation, therefore, their energy metabolism has certain specific features as compared to normal tissues. Unlike normal cells whose main way of ATP synthesis is oxidative phosphorylation, the majority of cancer cells have elevated glycolysis.
Hypoxia resulting from the imbalance between oxygen delivery and consumption in the tissue is characteristic of many solid tumors. Oxygen level in hypoxic tumors is considered to be lower than in healthy tissues, averaging 1-2% and less. The main factors of hypoxia development in the tumor are the atypical structure of microcirculatory vessels, long distances between blood vessels and tumor cells, which limits oxygen delivery with diffusion, and also
low oxygen transport by blood due to anemia. Numerous investigations in the last two decades have shown that hypoxia plays a significant role in tumor progression and is an adverse factor for treatment prognosis [28-30]. Hypoxia induces many complicated signaling pathways, including HIF, PI3K/AKT/mTOR, MARK, NF-kB, involved in regulation of proliferation, apoptosis, inflammation, migration, survival and metabolism. Among them, HIF1 and mTOR play the most essential role in regulation of metabolism [31-33]. HIF1 transcription factor is the principal regulator of glucose metabolism in conditions of hypoxia. It can promote mitochondrial degradation through BNIP3-dependent autophagy and also block mitochondrial biosynthesis inhibiting the activity of MYC transcription factor. The mTOR pathway is involved in starting reactions of glycolysis, biosynthesis of lipids, amino acids, nucleotides and proteins. As a result, in conditions of low oxygenation, tumor cells are unable to trigger reactions of oxidative phosphorylation, which makes them pass to glycolysis [28, 34-36].
Tumor cells, unlike normal ones, use glycolysis even in normal oxygenation conditions. This effect was discovered by German physiologist, Otto Warburg, in 1920s and was called aerobic glycolysis, or the Warburg effect [37-39]. Warburg reckoned that prevalence of glycolysis in presence of oxygen was caused by irreversible impairment of mitochondrial functions. As it was found later, actually, only a few tumor lines have mitochondrial dysfunctions, such as decreased expression of protein carriers and enzymes participating in reductive-oxidative reactions, reduced cycle of tricarboxylic acids, low number of the mitochondria, structural impairment of the respiratory chain complex, increased number of mitochondrial ATP-synthase inhibitors and high mDNA sensitivity to oxidative stress. It was established that many tumor cells restored mitochondrial functions and passed to oxidative phosphorylation when glycolysis reactions were inhibited [40-44].
Tumor cells switching to glycolytic metabolism is caused by a number of reasons. Firstly, this occurs due to essential need of tumor cells for synthesis of macromolecules for active growth. It is glycolysis which results in forming monomers necessary for synthesis of nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. Secondly, production of free radicals is decreased in glycolysis, which reduces the level of genotoxic damages to the cell and helps avoid apoptosis [8, 26, 41, 45, 46]. Thirdly, the product of glycolysis is lactate which is transported to the intercellular space. Acidic media are known to promote the invasion of tumors and metastasis. Besides, high ATP concentration has adverse effect on tumor cells as it suppresses glycolysis inhibiting phosphofructokinase-1 and pyruvate kinase [40].
So far, it has been established that energy metabolism of tumor cells presents a balance between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation and the theory of "pure glycolysis" in the tumor has been disproved. Experiments with decreasing the oxygen level have shown that no
tumor cell can exist only by means of glycolysis. A variety of gliomas, hepatomas and breast cancer cell lines use oxidative phosphorylation reactions as the main ATP source (though their metabolic phenotype changes in conditions of hypoxia). The maximum contribution of glycolysis to ATP production in tumor cells is considered to be no more than 50-60%, and in certain cases the level of oxidative phosphorylation in tumor cells is even higher than in the surrounding stromal cells [9, 41, 42, 47]. Besides, some tumor cells are capable of reversible switching between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation depending on glucose availability in the environment [9, 42]. Tumors as such are metabolically heterogenic and the ratio of ATP production by glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation can vary significantly in different cells of the same tumor lesion [41, 48].
Thus, metabolic activity of tumor cells presents a complicated process that helps cancer cells to adjust to various environmental conditions and their changes [42, 49-51].
Redox ratio as metabolic status indicator
Principles and techniques for measuring redox ratio. Since NADH and FAD are the only electron carriers capable of fluorescence, the ratio of their fluorescence intensities may serve as a parameter for assessment of the metabolic status of cells and tissues. The ratio of oxidized electron carriers to reduced ones is called redox ratio. This approach was suggested by Chance et al. [26, 52]. In literature there are various options for calculating redox ratio:
FAD/(NADH+FAD) [53-56];
FAD/NADH [22, 57-60];
NADH/FAD [61-63].
The choice of formula for calculating redox ratio often depends on the ratio of cofactor fluorescence intensities, the type of subject under study and measurement method [63, 64].
Since NADH is largely formed during glycolysis and FAD during oxidative phosphorylation, low redox ratio indicates high metabolic activity of cells and prevalence of the glycolytic pathway over oxidative phosphorylation. In addition to increasing glycolysis, active Krebs cycle reactions take place in proliferating tumor cells, with a possibility of its intermediate products being removed from the cycle for synthesis of various compounds. Increase in glycolysis and/or Krebs cycle, as compared to oxidative phosphorylation, leads to NADH accumulation. If NADH fluorescence intensity is increased, the cell has high metabolic potential for ATP production by means of oxidative phosphorylation reactions. Increase in NADH concentration is characteristic of tumor cells [65, 66].
Decrease in NADH fluorescence intensity and increase in FAD (high redox ratio) shows substantial need for ATP and oxidative phosphorylation predominance. For the healthy cell in standard conditions with the optimum
nutrient and oxygen content, increased need for ATP leads to the growth of redox ratio. It is caused by NADH oxidation to NAD+ during oxidative phosphorylation. In conditions of hypoxia with lack of oxygen serving as the final electron acceptor in mitochondrial respiratory chain, oxidative phosphorylation reactions become impossible and NADH concentration increases. To meet the need for ATP, the cell switches to anaerobic glycolysis resulting in NAD+ being reduced to NADH with pyruvate and ATP formation. Lack of NADH oxidation through the electron transport chain and increase in NADH concentration resulting from glycolysis lead to NADH fluorescence intensity growth in the cell with hypoxia [26, 52, 67].
To measure NADH and FAD fluorescence, fluorescence imaging techniques with one- and two-photon excitation are used [26, 56].
With one-photon mode NADH excitation is performed at 350 nm with reception range at 450-470 nm. FAD fluorescence is usually excited at A=450 nm and recorded in the range of 500-550 nm [18, 20, 26, 52]. Studies using one-photon mode are generally limited to in vitro models due to considerable light scattering in thick tissue samples [26].
Evaluation of metabolic status using two-photon fluorescence microscopy has a number of advantages compared to one-photon mode. In two-photon excitation the molecule of fluorophore absorbs two low-energy photons during one quantum event. As a result, it is possible to excite NADH and FAD fluorescence in the IR area (NADH in the region of 740 nm and FAD in the region of 900 nm), but not in the UV and near UV range [18, 26]. It is particularly significant for in vivo studies as light scattering in the tissue decreases when fluorescence is excited in the IR area. Besides, since simultaneous absorption of two photons has a probabilistic nature, effective two-photon excitation occurs only in the focal area where photon density is the highest. Such focused fluorescence excitation reduces the possibility of sample damage and photo-decolorization [26].
Redox ratio in tumor cells and tissues. Currently, redox ratio indicator is used for evaluation of metabolic status of tumor cells in vitro, tissue ex vivo and tumors in vivo. Ostrander et al. [62] showed on various human breast cancer cell cultures that tumor cells had increased NADH/FAD redox ratio compared to normal epithelial cells. This was related to elevated glucose consumption and aerobic glycolysis in tumor cells. Besides, subpopulation of breast cancer cells expressing estrogen receptors was reported to have decreased redox ratio. Similar results were also demonstrated on human bladder cancer cell line: NADH/FAD redox ratio was increased as compared to the norm [68].
It was revealed on breast cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231, MCF7, SKBr3 and BT474 that NADH/FAD redox ratio decreased after adding oxidative phosphorylation inhibitor FCCP, which spoke of metabolic changes in cells [69]. There was found a direct correlation between FAD/ (NADH+FAD) redox ratio and oxygen consumption on
various cultures of human breast cancer cells in vitro [70]. Besides, the interrelation between NADH/FAD redox ratio and HER2 gene expression was demonstrated on human breast cancer cell culture. HER2 is known to play an important role in pathogenesis and progression of certain aggressive types of breast cancer. It has been established that the highest NADH/FAD redox ratio is characteristic of cells with over-expression of HER2 [71, 72].
Levitt et al. studied metabolic activity of normal and pre-cancer HPV-immortalized cells on a 3D model of epithelium. Pre-cancer cells were found to have decreased FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio as compared to normal cells due to glycolysis prevalence [53, 73]. The study of changes in FAD/NADH redox ratio in human uterine neck cancer cells in conditions of co-cultivation with fibroblasts [57] revealed that redox ratio in tumor cells decreased in co-cultivation with fibroblasts. This decrease was caused by transition to more glycolytic metabolism. It was demonstrated on oral cancer cells (SCC25 and SCC61) in vitro that NADH/FAD redox ratio decreased after treatment of cells with Cisplatin [74]. Similar results were obtained on bladder cancer cell line (Т24). After administration of N-4-(hydroxyphenyl)-retinamide there was observed increase in FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio [75].
The study of metabolic changes in mucous membrane epithelium of hamster cheek pouch in vivo demonstrated decrease in FAD/NADH redox ratio in carcinogenesis [60]. The works [76-78] showed on the same model that FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio decreased sharply in tumor tissue as compared to the control, which indicated its increased metabolic activity. In the works [60, 78] there was revealed FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio difference between metastasizing breast cancer cell line MDA-MB231 and non-metastasizing MCF7 in vivo. Redox ratio in MDA-MB231 cells was higher, which the authors attribute to more aggressive phenotype of the metastasizing line.
Some works are devoted to the study of metabolic changes in anticancer therapy in vivo. For example, A.T. Shah et al. have observed statistically significant decrease in FAD/NADH redox ratio of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (FaDu) in vivo on the second day of chemotherapy with Cisplatin [79]. Zhang et al. describe increase in FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio in rat glioma cells in vivo after photodynamic therapy (PDT) [56]. In the work [80] they show sharp increase in FAD/ (NADH+FAD) redox ratio in rat glioma cells after PDT ex vivo due to oxidative stress initiation and mitochondrial structure impairment.
This method (using redox ratio for assessment of the metabolic status of tumor cells) is applied for clinical research as well. Natal et al. have analyzed biopsy material from patients with breast tumor [54]. FAD/NADH redox ratio was found to be decreased in samples from patients with desmoplastic reaction, which indicated high metabolic activity of these cells and unfavorable prognosis. Shah and Skala have proved the possibility of using NADH/FAD redox ratio for the analysis of biopsy material from patients with malignant neoplasms of the
larynx, the tongue, the epidermis and salivary gland adenocarcinoma ex vivo. The data obtained by them suggest that the metabolic status of tumor cells can serve as a criterion for selecting adequate treatment [81]. It was shown on uterine neck epithelium samples that samples with dysplasia had decreased FAD/(NADH+FAD) redox ratio compared to normal epithelium [82]. Similar results were obtained on rat brain tumor ex vivo: FAD/ (NADH+FAD) redox ratio in the tumor was much lower than in the normal tissue, which suggested prevalence of glycolysis in tumor cells [83]. Supposedly, the difference in redox ratio values may be used for visualization of tumor boundaries during the operation [83].
Though we have found no clinical examples of redox ratio recording, the analysis of metabolic cofactor fluorescence intensity has high potential for use in a clinical setting. A number of works show the results of recording NADH fluorescence in tumors of patients. Increased NADH fluorescence intensity is reported to indicate dysplastic and oncological changes of human uterine neck tissue epithelium in vivo [84]. Increased NADH fluorescence intensity, as compared to normal epithelium, has also been revealed in human head and neck tumors in vivo [85]. Similar results have also been obtained when studying human basal cell carcinoma in vivo [3]. All authors attribute high NADH fluorescence intensity to active metabolic processes in tumor cells.
NADH and FAD fluorescence lifetime in energy metabolism evaluation
Fluorescence lifetime imaging. Studying cellular metabolism by fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) is based on the fact that fluorescence lifetime of cofactors NADH and FAD significantly differs depending on whether they are in a free or protein-bound state. Despite the large number of works devoted to studying cellular metabolic status based on redox ratio measurement, spectral separation of free and bound cofactor forms is impossible with this approach as their emission spectra differ by 1020 nm at the peak width of 150 nm [18, 86].
FLIM provides the possibility to study metabolic cofactors in living cells by measuring mean time spent by the molecule in an excited state and not factual fluorescence intensity. Fluorescence lifetime does not depend on the fluorophore concentration, while the microenvironment is the most significant factor. Lifetime can be affected by pH, temperature, concentration of ions and oxygen, binding to other molecules or the chromophore conformation [87, 88].
FLIM methodology for distinguishing free and bound NADH was proposed by Lakowicz et al. in 1992 [89]. For the first time they have measured NADH lifetime when free in solution (0.4 ns) and when bound to malate dehydrogenase (1 ns). Recently, Blacker et al. have developed a technique for distinguishing NADH and NADPH fluorescence in living cells and tissues using FLIM [21].
At present the main approach to measuring fluorescence lifetime is time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC). Fluorescence decay kinetics is measured after the sample excitation with short-pulse laser radiation (femto- and picosecond). Decay profile consists of multiple repetition of a single photon event. The time the first photon arrives on the detector after excitation pulse is measured and stored in the memory so that the histogram of photon times and arrivals presents a curve of fluorescence intensity in terms of time [90-92] (Figure 3). Since the measurement data require time resolution of a few seconds, FLIM systems are equipped with high-speed supersensitive detectors capable of detecting single photons [93, 94].
The specific cofactor fluorescence lifetime in the cell amounts to nearly 0.3 and 0.2 ns for NADH, 0.3 and 2.7 ns for FAD. A shorter lifetime corresponds to bound FAD and free NADH, a longer lifetime signals free FAD and bound NADH.
Though in case of FAD the different lifetime is caused not by protein-binding, but the cofactor molecule conformation inside the protein compound, the use of terms "free" and "bound" for FAD is rather traditional. FAD is known to exist in two conformations: closed, when aromatic rings of isoalloxazine and adenine are in extremely close proximity, and open conformation, in which the two aromatic rings are extremely separated from each other. In open conformation, emission is carried out by means of aromatic group of isoalloxazine and the lifetime is about 2-3 ns, while closed conformation fluorescence lifetime is much shorter (100-300 ns) because isoalloxazine fluorescence is quenched by adenine [21, 57, 86].
Free NADH is localized in the cytosol and is responsible for glycolysis processes, while its bound form is in mitochondria and participates in oxidative phosphorylation reactions. Bound NADH lifetime depends on the protein the cofactor is bound to and varies within 1.7 to 2.9 ns [26, 60, 95].
There are a number of works devoted to the analysis of cofactor lifetime changes in oncological processes, yet the main indicator in studying energy metabolism by FLIM method is relative percentage contribution of free and bound cofactors [22, 26, 57, 95].
Today, fluorescence lifetime imaging is carried out as two-photon excitation microscopy, spectroscopy and macro imaging. There is equipment for two-photon microscopy and FLIM, approved for application in clinic, such as MPTflex and Dermalnspect systems produced by JenLab (Germany) [3, 96, 97].
Fluorescence lifetime changes in oncological processes. Due to noninvasiveness, high sensitivity and no need to introduce exogenous dyes, FLIM method has become an indispensable tool for tumor metabolism visualization.
Many works report that FLIM helps to demonstrate more glycolytic metabolism of tumor cells as compared to healthy ones. For example, decreased percentage
contribution of bound NADH and FAD, as compared to normal epithelial cells, was revealed on head and neck cancer cell cultures SCC25 and SCC61 [74]. The same work demonstrates increased contribution of bound NADH and FAD after treatment with chemotherapeutic agents Cisplatin, Cetuximab and BGT226. The study of NADH lifetime in keratinocytes and human oral cavity tumor cells revealed in vitro that tumor cells had longer NADH fluorescence lifetime and the ratio of their free and bound NADH was reduced as compared to control [98]. Besides, it was found that NADH fluorescence lifetime in human breast cancer cells was significantly lower compared to normal epithelial cells [86]. Ramanujan et al. measured specific NADH fluorescence lifetimes for human embryonic kidney cells (HEK 293T), hepatocytes and human uterine neck cancer cell line (HeLa) and proved free NADH contribution to be the highest in tumor cells, which spoke of cellular metabolism shifting to glycolytic mode [99]. NADH fluorescence lifetime was analyzed on rat cell cultures of basophilic leukemia in normal conditions and when changing glucose concentration [100]. It was found that the lowest mean NADH lifetime value correlated with decreased glucose content and cell starvation. Mean NADH lifetime increased as glucose concentration increased in the environment. It was established on human breast cancer cell cultures that
bound NADH fluorescence lifetime decreased in the process of cell proliferation and percentage contribution of its free form increased. The same changes, but with different dynamics, were observed when adding potassium cyanide to the cells and when decreasing the concentration of nutrients in culture medium [101].
Islam et al. has found FAD fluorescence lifetime to change in human uterine neck cancer cells with the change of pH. Fluorescence lifetime remained unchanged with the change of extracellular pH, however, with alkalization of intracellular pH it decreased [102].
The work [103] studies fluorescence distribution of flavins, their specific lifetime and contribution to metabolic processes on human glioblastoma tumor cells U-87 MG in vitro. It has been revealed that in tumor cells flavins are mostly localized in the mitochondria and mean FAD lifetime is 1.4 ns. This fact can serve as a criterion for early diagnosis of oncological processes.
It was demonstrated in vivo that percentage contribution of bound NADH and FAD decreased in the process of carcinogenesis in the hamster cheek pouch epithelium cells as a result of glycolysis activation [60, 95]. The same model of induced oral cavity cancer was used by Fatakdawala et al. to show decreased NADH fluorescence lifetime in the tumor compared to the norm [104]. There was found decrease in NADH and
FAD fluorescence lifetime as a result of chemotherapy with Cisplatin and Cetuximab on the cells of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (FaDu) in vivo [79].
Recently, application of FLIM method in clinical oncology has presented particular interest. Analysis of cofactors in human tumors is performed mainly on biopsy samples. Tumor samples from patients with larynx, tongue, epidermis cancer and salivary gland adenocarcinoma have been used to analyze NADH and FAD lifetime ex vivo [81]. This investigation shows that oncological processes have their specific metabolic properties and differ from the norm by more glycolytic metabolism. The study [54] revealed on breast cancer samples ex vivo that tumor cells with desmoplastic reaction had shorter NADH and FAD fluorescence lifetime as compared to tumor cells without this reaction. In human ovarian tumor samples ex vivo there was found increased FAD fluorescence lifetime as compared to normal epidermis [105].
It has been established using FLIM macro-imaging on biopsy samples that basalioma cells have shorter NADH fluorescence lifetime as compared to the norm [106]. It has been demonstrated on the samples of tumor of intestine, stomach, bladder, liver and pancreas that mean NADH fluorescence lifetime is significantly longer as compared to its value on the border between the tumor and healthy tissue of the same sample [107].
Due to small probing depth (~300 |jm), FLIM-using procedures on human tumors in vivo are limited to the analysis of skin and brain (intraoperatively) neoplasms. Thus, NADH lifetime has proved to be considerably shorter in melanoma cells than in those of basalioma and this can serve as a criterion for differential diagnosis [97]. The first study has shown FLIM applicability for evaluating resection borders during neurosurgical intervention on brain tumor in vivo [96]. FLIM spectroscopy has been used in patients with head and neck tumors to reveal that tumor tissue cells have shorter NADH fluorescence lifetime as compared to the surrounding healthy tissue [108-110], which suggests their glycolytic status.
Conclusion. The data on the metabolic status of cells are important for evaluation of their functional state. All the examples given above demonstrate the potential of noninvasive optical methods for visualizing the metabolic status of tumor cells according to fluorescence of endogenic fluorophores NADH and FAD. The described approaches based on the analysis of fluorescence intensity (redox ratio) and fluorescence lifetime (FLIM) provide the possibilities for early diagnosis of oncological diseases and real-time monitoring the response to therapy. Metabolic imaging is expected to improve understanding dynamic biochemical processes in cells and to become the foundation for early diagnosis of not only oncological processes, but also other pathologies related to metabolic changes (diabetes mellitus, neurodegenerative diseases etc.).
Study Funding. This study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation (grant No.14-15-00646).
Conflicts of Interest. The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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