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Dannaoui R, Hu R, Hu L, Tian ZQ, Svir I, Huang WH, Amatore C, Oleinick A. Vesicular neurotransmitters exocytosis monitored by amperometry: theoretical quantitative links between experimental current spikes shapes and intravesicular structures. Chem Sci 2024:d4sc04003a. [PMID: 39129778 PMCID: PMC11310864 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc04003a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2024] [Accepted: 07/30/2024] [Indexed: 08/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Single cell amperometry has proven to be a powerful and well-established method for characterizing single vesicular exocytotic events elicited at the level of excitable cells under various experimental conditions. Nevertheless, most of the reported characteristics are descriptive, being mostly concerned with the morphological characteristics of the recorded current spikes (maximum current intensities, released charge, rise and fall times, etc.) which are certainly important but do not provide sufficient kinetic information on exocytotic mechanisms due to lack of quantitative models. Here, continuing our previous efforts to provide rigorous models rationalizing the kinetic structures of frequently encountered spike types (spikes with unique exponential decay tails and kiss-and-run events), we describe a new theoretical approach enabling a quantitative kinetic modeling of all types of exocytotic events giving rise to current spikes exhibiting exponential decay tails. This model follows directly from the fact that the condensation of long intravesicular polyelectrolytic strands by high concentrations of monocationic neurotransmitter molecules leads to a matrix structure involving two compartments in constant kinetic exchanges during release. This kinetic model has been validated theoretically (direct and inverse problems) and its experimental interest established by the analysis of the amperometric spikes relative to chromaffin and PC12 cells previously published by some of us.
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- Reina Dannaoui
- Département de Chimie, PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond Paris 75005 France
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Département de Chimie, PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond Paris 75005 France
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Département de Chimie, PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond Paris 75005 France
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 P.R. China
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- Département de Chimie, PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond Paris 75005 France
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P.R. China
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- Département de Chimie, PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond Paris 75005 France
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Denison JD, De Alwis AC, Shah R, McCarty GS, Sombers LA. Untapped Potential: Real-Time Measurements of Opioid Exocytosis at Single Cells. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:24071-24080. [PMID: 37857375 PMCID: PMC10637323 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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The endogenous opioid system is commonly targeted in pain treatment, but the fundamental nature of neuropeptide release remains poorly understood due to a lack of methods for direct detection of specific opioid neuropeptides in situ. These peptides are concentrated in, and released from, large dense-core vesicles in chromaffin cells. Although catecholamine release from these neuroendocrine cells is well characterized, the direct quantification of opioid peptide exocytosis events has not previously been achieved. In this work, a planar carbon-fiber microelectrode served as a "postsynaptic" sensor for probing catecholamine and neuropeptide release dynamics via amperometric monitoring. A constant potential of 500 mV was employed for quantification of catecholamine release, and a higher potential of 1000 mV was used to drive oxidation of tyrosine, the N-terminal amino acid in the opioid neuropeptides released from chromaffin cells. By discriminating the results collected at the two potentials, the data reveal unique kinetics for these two neurochemical classes at the single-vesicle level. The amplitude of the peptidergic signals decreased with repeat stimulation, as the halfwidth of these signals simultaneously increased. By contrast, the amplitude of catecholamine release events increased with repeat stimulation, but the halfwidth of each event did not vary. The chromogranin dense core was identified as an important mechanistic handle by which separate classes of transmitter can be kinetically modulated when released from the same population of vesicles. Overall, the data provide unprecedented insight into key differences between catecholamine and opioid neuropeptide release from isolated chromaffin cells.
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- J. Dylan Denison
- Department
of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
- Comparative
Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
- Comparative
Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Piro B, Mattana G, Reisberg S. Transistors for Chemical Monitoring of Living Cells. BIOSENSORS 2018; 8:E65. [PMID: 29973542 PMCID: PMC6164306 DOI: 10.3390/bios8030065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We review here the chemical sensors for pH, glucose, lactate, and neurotransmitters, such as acetylcholine or glutamate, made of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), including organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) and electrolyte-gated OFETs (EGOFETs), for the monitoring of cell activity. First, the various chemicals that are produced by living cells and are susceptible to be sensed in-situ in a cell culture medium are reviewed. Then, we discuss the various materials used to make the substrate onto which cells can be grown, as well as the materials used for making the transistors. The main part of this review discusses the up-to-date transistor architectures that have been described for cell monitoring to date.
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- Benoît Piro
- University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13, France.
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- University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13, France.
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- University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, 75205 Paris CEDEX 13, France.
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Grubišić V, Verkhratsky A, Zorec R, Parpura V. Enteric glia regulate gut motility in health and disease. Brain Res Bull 2018; 136:109-117. [PMID: 28363846 PMCID: PMC5620110 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2017.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Revised: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The enteric nervous system, often referred to as the second brain, is the largest assembly of neurons and glia outside the central nervous system. The enteric nervous system resides within the wall of the digestive tract and regulates local gut reflexes involved in gastrointestinal motility and fluid transport; these functions can be accomplished in the absence of the extrinsic innervation from the central nervous system. It is neurons and their circuitry within the enteric nervous system that govern the gut reflexes. However, it is becoming clear that enteric glial cells are also actively involved in this process through the bidirectional signaling with neurons and other cells in the gut wall. We synthesize the recently discovered modulatory roles of enteric gliotransmission in gut motility and provide our perspective for future lines of research.
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- Vladimir Grubišić
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; Neuroscience Program, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Achucarro Center for Neuroscience, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011, Bilbao, Spain
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- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology-Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Pathophysiology University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Celica BIOMEDICAL, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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Wood PL, Mankidy R, Ritchie S, Heath D, Wood JA, Flax J, Goodenowe DB. Circulating plasmalogen levels and Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive scores in Alzheimer patients. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2010; 35:59-62. [PMID: 20040248 PMCID: PMC2799506 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.090059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Plasmalogens, which are key structural phospholipids in brain membranes, are decreased in the brain and serum of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). We performed this pilot study to evaluate the relation between the levels of circulating plasmalogens and Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive (ADAS-Cog) scores in patients with AD. METHODS We evaluated participants' ADAS-Cog scores and serum plasmalogen levels. For the 40 included AD patients with an ADAS-Cog score between 20 and 46, were tested their ADAS-Cog score 1 year later. The levels of docosahexaenoic acid plasmalogen were measured by use of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. RESULTS We found that the ADAS-Cog score increased significantly in AD patients with circulating plasmalogen levels that were <or= 75% of that of age-matched controls at entry into the study. There was no change in score among participants with normal serum plasmalogen levels at baseline (> 75%). LIMITATIONS This was a pilot study with 40 patients, and the results require validation in a larger population. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrates that decreased levels of plasmalogen precursors in the central nervous system correlate with functional decline (as measured by ADAS-Cog scores) in AD patients. The use of both ADAS-Cog and serum plasmalogen data may be a more accurate way of predicting cognitive decline in AD patients, and may be used to decrease the risk of including patients with no cognitive decline in the placebo arm of a drug trial.
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- Paul L. Wood
- Correspondence to: Dr. P.L. Wood, Phreedom Pharma, 204-407 Downey Rd., Saskatoon SK S7N 4L8; fax 306 244-6730;
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Amatore C, Arbault S, Bouret Y, Guille M, Lemaître F, Verchier Y. Invariance of exocytotic events detected by amperometry as a function of the carbon fiber microelectrode diameter. Anal Chem 2009; 81:3087-93. [PMID: 19290664 DOI: 10.1021/ac900059s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Etched carbon fiber microelectrodes of different radii have been used for amperometric measurements of single exocytotic events occurring at adrenal chromaffin cells. Frequency, kinetic, and quantitative information on exocytosis provided by amperometric spikes were analyzed as a function of the surface area of the microelectrodes. Interestingly, the percentage of spikes with foot (as well as their own characteristics), a category revealing the existence of sufficient long-lasting fusion pores, was found to be constant whatever the microelectrode diameter was, whereas the probability of overlapping spikes decreased with the electrode size. This confirmed that the prespike foot could not feature accidental superimposition of separated events occurring at different places. Moreover, the features of amperometric spikes investigated here (charge, intensity and kinetics) were found constant for all microelectrode diameters. This demonstrated that the electrochemical measurement does not introduce significant bias onto the kinetics and thermodynamics of release during individual exocytotic events. All in all, this work evidences that information on exocytosis amperometrically recorded with the usual 7 microm diameter carbon fiber electrodes is biologically relevant, although the frequent overlap between spikes requires a censorship of the data during the analytical treatment.
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- Christian Amatore
- Laboratoire PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UPMC Univ Paris 06, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Amatore C, Arbault S, Bonifas I, Guille M. Quantitative investigations of amperometric spike feet suggest different controlling factors of the fusion pore in exocytosis at chromaffin cells. Biophys Chem 2009; 143:124-31. [PMID: 19501951 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2009.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2009] [Revised: 04/20/2009] [Accepted: 04/22/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Around 30% of exocytosis events recorded by amperometry at carbon fiber microelectrodes exhibit a pre-spike feature (PSF) termed a "foot". This wave is associated with the release of the neurotransmitters via a transitory fusion pore, whilst the large, main exocytotic spike is due to complete release. The amperometric data reported herein were obtained using bovine chromaffin cells stimulated with either potassium or barium ions, two commonly-employed elicitors of exocytosis. Identical trends are observed with both activators: (i) they induce the same ratio (close to 30%) of events with a foot in the population of amperometric spikes, and (ii) spikes with a foot can be divided into two primary categories, depending on the temporal variation of the current wave (viz. as a ramp, or a ramp followed by a plateau). Correlations between the characteristics of the whole current spike, and of its observed foot, have been sought; such analyses demonstrate that the maximum current of both foot and spike signals are highly correlated, but, in contrast, the integrated charges of both are poorly correlated. Moreover, the temporal duration of the PSF is fully uncorrelated with any parameter pertaining to the main current spike. On the basis of these reproducible observations, it is hypothesized that the characteristics (dimensions and topology, at least) of each secretory vesicle determine the probability of formation of the fusion pore and its maximum size, whilst molecular factors of the cell membrane control its duration, and, consequently, the amount delivered prior to the massive exocytosis of catecholamines observed as a spike in amperometry.
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- Christian Amatore
- Laboratoire PASTEUR, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Département de Chimie, 24 Rue Lhomond, Paris, France.
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Monitoring of vesicular exocytosis from single cells using micrometer and nanometer-sized electrochemical sensors. Anal Bioanal Chem 2009; 394:17-32. [PMID: 19274456 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-2703-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2008] [Revised: 02/07/2009] [Accepted: 02/10/2009] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Communication between cells by release of specific chemical messengers via exocytosis plays crucial roles in biological process. Electrochemical detection based on ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) has become one of the most powerful techniques in real-time monitoring of an extremely small number of released molecules during very short time scales, owing to its intrinsic advantages such as fast response, excellent sensitivity, and high spatiotemporal resolution. Great successes have been achieved in the use of UME methods to obtain quantitative and kinetic information about released chemical messengers and to reveal the molecular mechanism in vesicular exocytosis. In this paper, we review recent developments in monitoring exocytosis by use of UMEs-electrochemical-based techniques including electrochemical detection using micrometer and nanometer-sized sensors, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), and UMEs implemented in lab-on-a-chip (LOC) microsystems. These advances are of great significance in obtaining a better understanding of vesicular exocytosis and chemical communications between cells, and will facilitate developments in many fields, including analytical chemistry, biological science, and medicine. Furthermore, future developments in electrochemical probing of exocytosis are also proposed.
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Amatore C, Maisonhaute E, Nierengarten JF, Schöllhorn B. Direct Monitoring of Ultrafast Redox Commutation at the Nanosecond and Nanometer Scales by Ultrafast Voltammetry: From Molecular Wires to Cation Releasing Systems. Isr J Chem 2008. [DOI: 10.1560/ijc.48.3-4.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Robinson DL, Hermans A, Seipel AT, Wightman RM. Monitoring rapid chemical communication in the brain. Chem Rev 2008; 108:2554-84. [PMID: 18576692 PMCID: PMC3110685 DOI: 10.1021/cr068081q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 454] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Donita L Robinson
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA
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Amatore C, Arbault S, Guille M, Lemaître F. Electrochemical Monitoring of Single Cell Secretion: Vesicular Exocytosis and Oxidative Stress. Chem Rev 2008; 108:2585-621. [DOI: 10.1021/cr068062g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Amatore C, Genovese D, Maisonhaute E, Raouafi N, Schöllhorn B. Electrochemically Driven Release of Picomole Amounts of Calcium Ions with Temporal and Spatial Resolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008; 47:5211-4. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Amatore C, Genovese D, Maisonhaute E, Raouafi N, Schöllhorn B. Electrochemically Driven Release of Picomole Amounts of Calcium Ions with Temporal and Spatial Resolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200705274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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