Method Article

Radiolabeling and Quantification of Cellular Levels of Phosphoinositides by High Performance Liquid Chromatography-coupled Flow Scintillation

DOI:

10.3791/53529

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January 6th, 2016

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1Department of Chemistry and Biology, Program in Molecular Science, Ryerson University

* These authors contributed equally

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Summary

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Phosphoinositides are signaling lipids whose relative abundance rapidly changes in response to various stimuli. This article describes a method to measure the abundance of phosphoinositides by metabolically labeling cells with 3H-myo-inositol, followed by extraction and deacylation. Extracted glycero-inositides are then separated by high-performance liquid chromatography and quantified by flow scintillation.

Abstract

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Phosphoinositides (PtdInsPs) are essential signaling lipids responsible for recruiting specific effectors and conferring organelles with molecular identity and function. Each of the seven PtdInsPs varies in their distribution and abundance, which are tightly regulated by specific kinases and phosphatases. The abundance of PtdInsPs can change abruptly in response to various signaling events or disturbance of the regulatory machinery. To understand how these events lead to changes in the amount of PtdInsPs and their resulting impact, it is important to quantify PtdInsP levels before and after a signaling event or between control and abnormal conditions. However, due to their low abundance and similarity, quantifying the relative amounts of each PtdInsP can be challenging. This article describes a method for quantifying PtdInsP levels by metabolically labeling cells with 3H-myo-inositol, which is incorporated into PtdInsPs. Phospholipids are then precipitated and deacylated. The resulting soluble 3H-glycero-inositides are further extracted, separated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and detected by flow scintillation. The labeling and processing of yeast samples is described in detail, as well as the instrumental setup for the HPLC and flow scintillator. Despite losing structural information regarding acyl chain content, this method is sensitive and can be optimized to concurrently quantify all seven PtdInsPs in cells.

Introduction

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Phosphoinositides (PtdInsPs) are important signaling phospholipids that help regulate a variety of cellular functions, including signal transduction, membrane trafficking and gene expression, which then modulate higher-order cell behavior such as cell division, organelle identity and metabolic activity1-3. There are seven species of PtdInsPs that are derived from the phosphorylation of the 3, 4, and/or 5 positions of the inositol head group of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), the parent phospholipid. Importantly, the seven PtdInsPs are unequally distributed and the local concentration of each PtdInsP species can increase or decrease at specific subcellular sites where they bind to a distinct set of protein effectors, which together permits each PtdInsP to control the identity and function of its host membrane3,4. In addition, the levels of each PtdInsP need to be tightly controlled since this can significantly impact the signal intensityproduced by a PtdInsP. The localization and levels of each PtdInsP depends on the targeting and activity of numerous lipid kinases, phosphatases and phospholipases that mediate the synthesis and turnover of each PtdInsP3,4. Hence, misregulation of the PtdInsP regulatory machinery can perturb cell function, leading to diseases such as cancer and degenerative diseases2,5,6. To fully understand the roles and functions of PtdInsPs and their regulatory machinery, both microscopy-based and biochemical-based techniques have been developed to track and quantify PtdInsPs.

In many cases, PtdInsPs bind to their protein effectors via a specific protein domain7-9. These protein modules often retain their proper fold and lipid recognition properties when expressed separately from the entire protein. This gave rise to PtdInsP probes by fusing a specific PtdInsP-binding protein domain to a fluorescent protein (FP) like green fluorescent protein (GFP) for the subcellular detection of PtdInsPs by microscopy. Indeed, many studies have used FP-fused PtdInsP-binding protein modules to identify the localization and dynamics of specific PtdInsP species by live-cell imaging1,10. For example, the Pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of phospholipase C δ1 (PLCδ1) fused to GFP specifically recognizes the phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2] on the plasma membrane, whereas tandem copies of the FYVE domain of early endosome antigen 1 (EEA1) has been employed to track phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PtdIns3P) on endosomes10-13. Overall, microscopy-based techniques are great to visualize PtdInsP localization and dynamics, but there are several caveats including that PtdInsP-binding domains may also interact with additional factors other than the target PtdInsP species and that they cannot detect changes below cytosolic fluorescence of the FP-probes.

Biochemical techniques including thin-layer chromatography, mass spectrometry and radioisotope labeling can also be used to characterize and quantify the levels of each PtdInsP14-16. These methods require the isolation of lipids for the detection of cellular levels of PtdInsPs. Mass spectrometry can be used to characterize phospholipids from lipid extracts and is invaluable for determining the acyl chain composition of PtdInsPs14,17. However, mass spectrometry is mostly semi-quantitative and it remains difficult to resolve and concurrently quantify PtdInsP species of the same molecular weight14,17. In comparison, radioisotope labeling of PtdInsPs followed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-coupled flow scintillation is useful for the separation and concurrent quantification of all seven species of PtdInsPs18. The use of HPLC with a strong anion exchange (SAX) column achieves separation based on molecular weight, charge and shape, thus fractionating deacylated PtdInsPs (Gro-InsPs) even of the same molecular weight and charge. Coupling the HPLC eluent to a flow scintillator then generates radioactive-based signal peaks for each Gro-InsPs species relative to the original parent glycerol-inositol (Gro-Ins)18. This ultimately corresponds to relative levels of PtdInsPs in cells.

Radiolabeling of PtdInsPs and HPLC-coupled flow scintillation is a useful tool to investigate the regulation and function of phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,5)P2], a PtdInsP that only constitutes ~0.1-0.3% of PtdIns16,19,20. Synthesis of PtdIns(3,5)P2 is performed by the PtdIns3P 5-kinase called Fab1 in yeast and PIKfyve in mammals21. This reaction is counteracted by a PtdIns(3,5)P2 5-phosphatase called Fig4 in yeast or mFig4/Sac3 in mammals22-24. Interestingly, both PIKfyve/Fab1 and mFig4/Fig4/Sac3 exist in a single complex and are regulated by the scaffolding adaptor protein, Vac14 in yeast or mVac14/ArPIKfyve in mammals25,26. In VAC14-deleted yeast cells, Fab1 does not function efficiently leading to a 90% decrease in PtdIns(3,5)P2 levels27,28. On the other hand, Atg18 is a PtdIns(3,5)P2 effector protein that may control vacuolar fission 29. Atg18 is also a negative regulator of PtdIns(3,5)P2 since the deletion of its gene, ATG18, causes a 10 to 20-fold increase in PtdIns(3,5)P2 levels29,30. Overall, changes in the levels of PtdIns(3,5)P2 severely impacts the function of the yeast vacuole and the mammalian lysosomes, consequently affecting processes such as membrane trafficking, phagosome maturation, autophagy and ion transport 6,19,21,31.

This article describes the process of radioisotope labeling of PtdInsPs with 3H-myo-inositol in yeast to detect the relative levels of PtdIns(3,5)P2 in wild-type, vac14Δ and atg18Δ yeast strains. Using this as an example, the resolving capabilities of HPLC for the separation of individual PtdInsPs as well as the sensitivity of flow scintillation for detection of trace amount of 3H-myo-inositol is shown. We also elaborate on how one might optimize the methodology for labeling and separating 3H-labelled PtdInsPs from mammalian cells, whose samples tend to be more complex since these cells possess all seven PtdInsP species.

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Protocol

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Note: The text below describes in detail a method to measure PtdInsPs in yeast. It provides the experimental details for labeling yeast cells with 3H-myo-inositol, extracting and deacylating lipids and an HPLC-elution protocol to fractionate and quantify deacylated PtdInsPs. Please note that labeling, deacylation, resolution and quantification of PtdInsPs in mammalian cells require optimization and longer HPLC-elution profiles. These details can be found elsewhere, though we discuss some of aspects in the Discussion. Overall, the methodology to extract lipids, deacylate and extract the water-soluble Gro-InsPs from yeast is given and is illustrated in Figure 1.

1. Protocol for Labeling and Analysing PtdInsPs in Yeast

  1. Cell culture and radiolabeling
    1. Grow a 20 ml liquid culture of the yeast strain SEY6210 at 30 °C with constant shaking in complete synthetic media to mid-log phase or an optical density at 600 nm (OD600) of approximately 0.6-0.7.
      Note: Do not use YPD media as this may affect 3H-myo-inositol incorporation. This culture size should provide sufficient material for 2-3 HPLC runs.
    2. Pellet a total of 10-14 OD of the yeast cells (note that 1 ml culture with an OD600 = 1 contains ~1x107 cells) by centrifugation at 800 x g for 5 min in a 12 ml round-bottom tube. Resuspend with 2 ml of inositol-free media (IFM) (see Table 1 for IFM composition).
    3. Repeat centrifugation and aspirate the media. Resuspend the pellet with 440 µl of IFM and incubate at RT for 15 min.
    4. Add 60 µl of 3H-myo-inositol (1 µl = 1 µCi) to each sample and incubate at the growing temperature of 30 °C for 1 to 3 hr with constant shaking.
      Caution: 3H-myo-inositol is a radioactive material that should be handled after appropriate training. In addition, all consumables that make contact with 3H-containing material should be disposed appropriately and designated as radioactive waste.
      Note: The growth temperature can be changed as required as long as all strains to be compared are grown at the same temperature.
    5. Transfer the cell suspension (500 µl) to a microcentrifuge tube containing 500 µl of 9% perchloric acid and 200 µl of acid washed glass beads. Mix by inversion and incubate on ice for 5 min.
    6. Vortex the sample at top speed for 10 min and transfer the lysates to a new microcentrifuge tube using a gel-loading tip to avoid the glass beads.
    7. Pellet the sample at 12,000 x g for 10 min at 4 °C and aspirate the supernatant.
    8. Resuspend the pellet by bath sonication in 1 ml of ice-cold 100 mM EDTA. Pellet again as before.
  2. Deacylation and extraction
    1. Freshly prepare 5.0 ml of the deacylation reagent by combining 2.3 ml of methanol, 1.3 ml of 40% methylamine, 0.55 ml of 1-butanol and 0.80 ml of water. Invert to mix.
    2. Aspirate the EDTA and sonicate the pellet in 50 µl of water.
    3. Add 500 µl of the deacylation reagent and sonicate to mix. Incubate at RT for 20 min.
    4. Heat lipids for 50 min at 53 °C in a heat block. Dry the samples completely by vacuum centrifugation over 3 hr or O/N.
      1. Ensure that a chemical trap is installed between the vacuum-centrifuge and the vacuum pump to prevent vapours from entering the air.
    5. Resuspend the pellet with 300 µl of water by bath sonication and incubate at RT for 20 min. Dry the samples by vacuum centrifugation for 3 hr or O/N. Repeat this step once more.
    6. Sonicate the pellet with 450 µl of water. This is the aqueous phase during extraction.
    7. Freshly prepare 10 ml of the extraction reagent by adding 8.0 ml of 1-butanol, 1.6 ml of ethyl ether and 0.40 ml of ethyl formate. Invert to mix.
    8. Add 300 µl of the extraction reagent to the aqueous phase. Vortex the mixture at top speed for 5 min and separate the layers by centrifugation at top speed (18,000 x g) for 2 min.
    9. Collect the bottom aqueous layer into a new microfuge tube while avoiding the top organic layer, the interface, and the pellet. Repeat extraction of the aqueous phase twice more with fresh extraction reagent.
    10. Completely dry the collected aqueous layer by vacuum centrifugation. Disperse the pellet in 50 µl of water by bath sonication.
    11. Add 2 µl of each sample to 4 ml of scintillation fluid in a 6 ml polyethylene scintillation vial. Determine the number of counts (in CPM) in each sample by liquid scintillation using an open window.
    12. Store the samples at -20 °C until ready for HPLC.
  3. Separation of  3H-glycero-inositides by HPLC
    1. Prepare buffer A by filtering 1 L of ultrapure water with a bottle top 0.22 µm vacuum filter, followed by degassing.
    2. Prepare buffer B by making a 1 L solution of 1 M ammonium phosphate dibasic (APS, MW 132.06) in water and adjust the pH to 3.8 with phosphoric acid. Filter the ammonium phosphate with a bottle top 0.22 µm vacuum filter, followed by degassing.
    3. Assemble the injection vial by outfitting a 2 ml vial with a spring-loaded 250 µl small volume insert. Load 10 million CPM and add water for a total volume of 55 µl. Prepare a blank vial with 55 µl of water.
    4. Cap the vials with screw caps outfitted with a PTFE/silicone septa (red side facing the inside of the vial). Place each vial in the auto-sampling tray of the HPLC, starting with the blank vial.
    5. Use an HPLC and associated software that controls buffer flow, degasses buffers and controls sample injection. Use an online flow scintillator and its associated software to regulate the scintillant flow rate and to monitor the 3H-decay signal.
      1. Use a SAX liquid chromatography column with dimensions of 250 mm x 4.6 mm and containing 5 µm silica resin in the HPLC. Outfit the column with a column guard to prevent injection of contaminants.
      2. Install a 3H-compatible 500 µl flow cell in the flow scintillator.
        NOTE: Fractionation can be done with an Agilent 1200 infinity series HPLC system controlled by Chemstation software or with other commercially available HPLC systems. Flow scintillation of the HPLC eluent can be done with a β-RAM flow scintillator controlled by the Laura software or another commercially available flow scintillator or compatible software.
    6. Initialize the quaternary pump at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min with 100% buffer A.
    7. Set up an equilibration profile on the HPLC to control the gradient of Buffers A and B (call this "Protocol A equilibration"): 1% Buffer B for 5 min, 1-100% B for 5 min, 100% B for 5 min, 100-1% B for 5 min, 1% B for 20 min. Set the pressure limit at 400 bar, 1.0 ml/min flow rate, and 30 min run time.
    8. Set up an elution profile (Figure 2) on the HPLC to control the gradient of Buffers A and B (call this "Protocol A"): 1% B for 5 min, 1-20% B for 40 min, 20-100% B for 10 min, 100% B for 5 min, 100-1% B for 20 min, 1% B for 10 min. Set the pressure limit at 400 bar, 1.0 ml/min flow rate, and 90 min run time.
    9. Set up a detection protocol on the flow scintillator (call this "Protocol A detection") to run for 60 min, with a scintillation fluid flow rate of 2.5 ml/min and an 8.57 sec dwell time.
    10. Program an automated injection sequence on the HPLC to begin with the water blank on "Protocol A equilibration", followed by each radiolabelled sample on "Protocol A". Initialize the sequence when ready.
    11. While the run is still on the equilibration protocol, create a batch on the flow scintillator to measure all of the samples with "Protocol A detection." The injection of each new sample will initialize "Protocol A" on the HPLC while triggering the flow scintillator to begin "Protocol A detection."
    12. At the completion of all runs, flush the HPLC, the column and flow scintillator with 100% Buffer A for 30 min at 1.0 ml/min flow rate.
  4. Data analysis
    1. Use Laura software or any other software that can quantify the chromatography spectra. The steps described in this section are depicted in Figure 3.
    2. Open the files by clicking "File", "Open", and select the raw data file for each sample.
    3. In the "chromatograms" tab, zoom in to stretch each of the lesser peaks (about 1000 counts [y-axis]) while retaining the time resolution. Zoom into each individual peak if necessary.
    4. Highlight each of the peaks for analysis using the "Add ROI" tool. Identify peaks by time of elution: Parental Gro-Ins at 10 min, Gro-Ins3P at 18 min, Gro-Ins4P at 20 min, Gro-Ins(3,5)P2 at 29 min and Gro-Ins(4,5)P2 at 32 min.
    5. In the "regions tables" tab, record the "area (counts)" of each peak. Note the "start (mm:ss)" time and "end (mm:ss)" time of each peak.
    6. For background subtraction, highlight a region adjacent to the peak spanning the same amount of time. Subtract the number of counts from the corresponding peak.
    7. Normalize the area of each peak against parental Gro-Ins (expressed as "% of total PtdIns"). Then, normalize each of the peaks in each experimental condition against the control condition (expressed as "n-fold increase compared to control").
      NOTE: Normalization of each peak can also be done against total counts but since the parental Gro-Ins is much more abundant than all other PtdInsPs the results tend to be similar.
    8. Export the data for the chromatographs by pressing "File", "Save as…", and choose the "CSV (comma separated)" file format. Plot the data on a spreadsheet and present as necessary.

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Results

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Using this method, yeast PtdInsPs were metabolically labelled with 3H-myo-inositol. After labeling, the phospholipids were precipitated with perchloric acid, followed by phospholipid deacylation and extraction of the water-soluble Gro-InsPs (Figure 1). At this stage, it is important to quantify the total radioactive signal associated with the extracted Gro-InsPs by liquid scintillation to ensure sufficient signal-to-noise ratio for the very low-abundan...

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Discussion

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This article details the experimental protocol required to quantify cellular levels of PtdnsPs by HPLC-coupled flow scintillation from yeast. The methodology enables the metabolic labeling of PtdInsPs with 3H-myo-inositol, followed by lipid processing and extraction of water-soluble 3H-Gro-InsPs, HPLC fractionation and analysis. Using this method, the relative levels of PtdInsPs in cells under various conditions can be quantified, as is shown for PtdIns(3,5)P2 in wild-type, v...

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Disclosures

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The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.

Acknowledgements

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C.Y.H. was supported by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship from the Government of Ontario. This article was made possible by funding held by R.J.B. from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canada Research Chairs Program and Ryerson University.

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Materials

List of materials used in this article
NameCompanyCatalog NumberComments
1-ButanolBiobasicBC1800Reagent grade
Ammonium phosphate dibasicBioshopAPD001ACS grade
Ammonium sulfateBiobasicADB0060Ultra Pure grade
AutosamplerAgilentG1329BAgilent 1260 infinity series
BiotinSigmaB4501
Boric acidBiobasicBB0044Molecular biology grade
Calcium ChlorideBiobasicCT1330Ahydrous, industrial grade
Calcium pantothenateSigmaC8731
Copper(II) sulfateSigma451657Anhydrous
D-GlucoseBiobasicGB0219Anhydrous, biotech grade
Dulbecco's modification of Eagle's MediumLife11995-065With 4.5 g/L glucose, 110 mg/L pyruate, L-glutamine
Dulbecco's modification of Eagle's MediumMP biomedicals0916429 With 4.5 g/L glucose, without L-gluatmine, without inositol
EDTABiobasicEB0107Acid free, ultra pure grade
Ethyl etherCaledon labs1/10/4700Anhydrous, reagent grade
Ethyl formateSigma112682Reagent grade
Fetal bovine serumWisent080-450US origin, premium quality, heat inactivated
Fetal Bovine Serum, DialyzedLife26400044US origin
FlowLogic ULabLogic Systems LtdSG-BXX-05Scintillation fluid for flow scintillation 
Folic acidBiobasicFB0466USP grade
HEPES buffer solutionLife156300801 M solution
Inositol, Myo-[2-3H(N)]Perkin ElmerNET114005MC9:1 ethanol to water
Insulin-Transferrin-Selenium-EthanolamineLife51500056100x solution
Iron(III) chlorideSigma157740Reagent grade
Laura - Chromatography data collection and analysis softwareLabLogic Systems LtdVersion 4.2.1.18Flow scintillator software
L-glutamineSigmaG7513200 mM, solution, sterile-filtered, BioXtra, suitable for cell culture
Magnesium ChlorideSigmaM8266Anhydrous
Manganese sulfateBiobasicMB0334Monohydrate, ACS grade
MethanolCaledon labs6701-7-40HPLC Grade
Methylamine solutionSigma42646640% (v/v)
Monopotassium phosphateBiobasicPB0445Anhydrous, ACS grade
Nicotinic acidBiobasicNB0660Reagent grade
OpenLAB CSD ChemStation AgilentRev. C.01.03 HPLC software
p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA)BioshopPAB001.100Free acid
Penicillin-StreptomycinSigmaP4333100X, liquid, stabilized, sterile-filtered, cell culture tested
Perchloric acidSigma244252ACS reagent, 70%
PhenoSpher SAX columnPhenomenex00G-315-E05 µm, 80 Å, 250 x 4.6 mm
Phosphoric acidCaledon labs1/29/8425Reagent grade
Potassium ChlorideBiobasicPB0440ACS grade
Potassium iodideBiobasicPB0443ACS grade
Pyridoxine hydrochlorideSigmaP9755
Quaternary pumpAgilentG1311CAgilent 1260 infinity series
RiboflavinBioshopRIB333.100USP grade
Sodium ChlorideBiobasicDB0483Biotech grade
Sodium molybdateSigma243655
Thermostatted Column CompartmentAgilentG1316AAgilent 1260 infinity series
Thiamine hydrochlorideSigmaT4625Reagent grade; make solution of 0.02% (w/v), forms a suspension. mix and freeze aliquots
Ultima GoldPerkin Elmer6013321Scintillation coctail for liquid scintillation counting
Zinc sulfateBiobasicZB2906Heptahydrate, reagent grade
β-RAM 4IN/US systemsModel 4Flow scintillator - 500 µl flow cell; alternative Radiomatic Flow Scintillator Analyser by Perkin Elmer 

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