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Method Article

Evaluating Cell Death Using Cell-Free Supernatant of Probiotics in Three-Dimensional Spheroid Cultures of Colorectal Cancer Cells

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DOI:

10.3791/61285

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June 13th, 2020

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1Microbiological Analysis Team, Group for Biometrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), 2College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University (CNU), 3Stem Cell Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 4Convergent Research Center for Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), 5Department of Bio-Analysis Science, University of Science & Technology (UST)

* These authors contributed equally

In This Article

Summary

Here methods are presented to understand anti-cancer effects of Lactobacillus cell-free supernatant (LCFS). Colorectal cancer cell lines show cell deaths when treated with LCFS in 3D cultures. The process of generating spheroids can be optimized depending on the scaffold and the analysis methods presented are useful for evaluating the involved signaling pathways.

Abstract

This manuscript describes a protocol to evaluate cancer cell deaths in three dimensional (3D) spheroids of multicellular types of cancer cells using supernatants from Lactobacillus fermentum cell culture, considered as probiotics cultures. The use of 3D cultures to test Lactobacillus cell-free supernatant (LCFS) are a better option than testing in 2D monolayers, especially as L. fermentum can produce anti-cancer effects within the gut. L. fermentum supernatant was identified to possess increased anti-proliferative effects against several colorectal cancer (CRC) cells in 3D culture conditions. Interestingly, these effects were strongly related to the culture model, demonstrating the notable ability of L. fermentum to induce cancer cell death. Stable spheroids were generated from diverse CRCs (colorectal cancer cells) using the protocol presented below. This protocol of generating 3D spheroid is time saving and cost effective. This system was developed to easily investigate the anti-cancer effects of LCFS in multiple types of CRC spheroids. As expected, CRC spheroids treated with LCFS strongly induced cell death during the experiment and expressed specific apoptosis molecular markers as analyzed by qRT-PCR, western blotting, and FACS analysis. Therefore, this method is valuable for exploring cell viability and evaluating the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs.

Introduction

Probiotics are the most advantageous microorganisms in the gut that improves immune homeostasis and host energy metabolism1. Probiotics from Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are the most advanced of its kind found in the intestine2,3. Previous investigations have shown that Lactobacillus has inhibitory and antiproliferative effects on several cancers, including colorectal cancer4. Moreover, probiotics prevent inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis5,6. However, most studies with probiotics were performed in two dimensional (2D) monolayers that are grown on solid surfaces.

Artificial culture systems lack environmental features, which is not natural for cancer cells. To overcome this limitation, three dimensional (3D) culture systems have been developed7,8. Cancer cells in 3D show improvements in terms of basic biological mechanisms, such as cell viability, proliferation, morphology, cell-cell communication, drug sensitivity, and in vivo relevance9,10. Moreover, spheroids are made from multicellular types of colorectal cancer and are dependent on cell-cell interactions and the extracellular matrix (ECM)11. Our previous study has reported that probiotic cell-free supernatant (CFS) produced using Lactobacillus fermentum showed anti-cancer effects on 3D cultures of colorectal cancer (CRC) cells12. We proposed that CFS is a suitable alternative strategy for testing probiotic effects on 3D spheroids12.

Here, we present an approach that can accommodate multicellular types of 3D colorectal cancer for the analysis of therapeutic effects of probiotic cell-free supernatant (CFS) on several 3D colorectal cancer mimicry systems. This method provides a means for the analysis of related probiotic and anti-cancer effects in vitro.

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Protocol

1. Bacterial cell cultures and preparation of Lactobacillus  cell-free supernatant (LCFS)

NOTE: Steps 1.2 – 1.9 are conducted in an anaerobic chamber.

  1. Prepare an MRS agar plate and broth containing L-cysteine and sterilize by autoclaving.
  2. Pre-incubate the MRS agar plate in H2 anaerobic chamber maintained at 37 ˚C with 20 ppm oxygen.
  3. Thaw Lactobacillus bacterial stock and inoculate the agar plate with the bacterial culture (Figure 1A (i)).
  4. Incubate bacteria for 2 - 3 days in H2 anaerobic chamber at 37 ˚C and 20 ppm oxygen until single bacterial colonies are obtained.
  5. Wash and dry the Hungate type anerobic culture tube. Autoclave the culture tube at 121 ˚C for 15 min.
  6. Then incubate the tube in H2 anaerobic chamber at 37 ˚C and 20 ppm oxygen to remove oxygen.
  7. Place 2 - 3 mL of MRS broth into the tube. Seal the tube with a butyl rubber stopper and screw the cap.
  8. Obtain a single colony with a loop and place it into the 1.5 mL culture tube with 500 µL of 1x PBS. (Figure 1A (ii)).
  9. Suspend the colony using a 1 mL syringe (Figure 1A (iii)). Do this by, inserting the needle of the 1 mL syringe in the center of the tube lid, aspirating the suspended colony and then resuspending it back into the MRS broth media. (Figure 1A (iv)).
  10. Incubate the MRS broth media in a shaker incubator for 2 days (37 °C, 5% CO2, 200 rpm).
  11. Measure the optical density (OD) using a spectrophotometer to monitor bacterial growth curves until the absorbance at OD620 reaches to 2.0.
  12. Separate the bacterial pellets and the conditioned media by centrifuging at 1,000 x g for 15 min. Wash the collected bacterial pellets with 1x PBS and resuspend in 4 mL of RPMI 1640 supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. Do not include any antibiotics in the medium.
  13. Maintain the bacterial pellets in RPMI and incubate in a shaker incubator for 4 h at 37 °C with 5% CO2 at a speed of 100 rpm.
  14. For the preparation of the probiotic supernatant, remove the bacterial pellet via centrifugation at 1000 x g, for 15 min at 4 °C. Sterile-filter the recovered supernatant using a 0.22 μm filter and store at −80 °C until use.

2. Generation of spheroids

  1. Preparing colorectal cancer cell lines
    1. Grow DLD-1, HT-29, and WiDr cell lines as monolayers until 70-80% confluency and incubate the plate at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator (Growth medium: RPMI containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% penicillin-streptomycin).
    2. For cells grown in 100 mm Petri dish, wash the plate twice with 4 mL of 1x PBS. Add 1 mL of 0.25% trypsin-EDTA and incubate the Petri dish for 2 min at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator to dissociate the cells.
    3. After incubation, check for the cell dissociation under a microscope and neutralize trypsin-EDTA with 5 mL of growth medium.
    4. Transfer the dissociated cells to a 15 mL conical tube and centrifuge for 3 min at 300 x g.
    5. Discard the supernatant and resuspend gently with 3 mL of growth media.
    6. Count the cells with trypan blue to determine viable cells using a hemocytometer. (Figure 1B (i))
  2. Spheroid formation
    1. In a 15 mL conical tube, dilute the cells from 2.1.5 to obtain 1 - 2 x 105 cells/mL (Figure 1B (ii))
    2. Add final concentration of 0.6% methylcellulose to the cell suspension and transfer the diluted cells to a sterile reservoir.
      NOTE: For each cell line, the amount of methylcellulose needed should be titrated and determined accordingly.
    3. Use a multichannel pipette to dispense 200 µL of cells to each well of an ultra-low attachment 96-well round bottom microplate. (Figure 1B (iii))
    4. Incubate the plate at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator for 24 - 36 h.
    5. After 24 - 36 h, observe the plate under a light microscope to ensure spheroid formation.

3. Treating 3D colorectal cancer cells with LCFS

  1. Generate spheroids as described in steps 2 and 3.
  2. Before performing the LCFS treatment, thaw the frozen LCFS at room temperature (RT) for 10 - 20 min.
  3. Inoculate the LCFS stock solution into a growth medium. Serially dilute to 25%, 12.5%, and 6% in the growth medium (i.e., 25% LCFS = 150 µL of growth medium + 50 µL of LCFS).
  4. Take out the cell culture plate containing spheroids from the incubator and remove as much of the growth medium as possible from each well using a 200 μL pipette.
  5. Add the growth media with LCFS on the cells and incubate at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator for 24 - 48 h.
    NOTE: The volume to be used will depend on the plate size as follows: 2 mL for 6-well cell culture plates; 200 μL for 96-well cell culture plates.

4. Cell viability for spheroids

  1. Prepare 8 - 10 LCFS-treated colorectal cancer spheroids in opaque-walled multi-well plates (cell viability assays are performed 48 h after LCFS treatment).
  2. Thaw the cell viability reagent (see Table of Materials) at 4 °C for overnight.
  3. Equilibrate the cell viability reagent to room temperature before use.
  4. Before performing the assay, remove 50% of the growth media from the spheroids.
  5. Add 100 µL of cell viability reagent to each well.
    NOTE: The volume to be used will depend on the plate size as follows: 100 μL for 96-well cell culture plates.
  6. Mix the reagent vigorously for 5 min to promote cell lysis.
  7. Incubate for 30 min – 2 h at 37 °C.
  8. Record the luminescence.

5. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis for spheroids

  1. For each condition, prepare 10 - 15 spheroids in a 2 mL tube and centrifuge for 3 min at 400 x g.
  2. Discard the supernatant and wash the spheroids twice in 1 mL of ice-cold 1x PBS.
    NOTE: Avoid centrifugation, let the spheroids settle down.
  3. Aspirate as much of the 1x PBS as possible and isolate RNA using a commercially available kit.
  4. Synthesize cDNA from 1 μg of RNA using a commercially available kit as per the manufacturer’s protocol.
  5. Prepare a master mix to run all samples in triplicate (see Table 1 and Table 2).
  6. Perform the amplification in a 20 µL of the template master mix into each qPCR plate well.
  7. Mix reactions well and spin if necessary.
  8. Run samples as per the recommendations of the instrument manufacturer (Table 3).

6. Western blotting from spheroids

NOTE: When collecting spheroids, use a 200 μL pipette and cut the end of the tips to avoid disturbing their structure.

  1. For each condition, prepare 30 - 40 spheroids in a 2 mL tube.
  2. Place the tube on ice and let the spheroids settle down to the bottom of the 2 mL tube.
  3. Discard the supernatant and wash the spheroids twice in 1 mL ice-cold 1x PBS
    NOTE: Avoid centrifugation, let the spheroids settle down.
  4. Aspirate as much of the 1x PBS as possible and add RIPA buffer with a protease inhibitor cocktail (10 spheroids = 30 µL of RIPA buffer).
  5. Lyse the cells by pipetting up and down and perform sonication for 30 s with 30 s of resting on ice for 10 cycles.
  6. Centrifuge the protein lysates at 15000 x g for 15 min at 4 °C.
  7. Determine the protein concentration for each cell lysate.
  8. Before loading, boil each cell lysate in a sample buffer at 100 °C for 10 min.
  9. Load equal amounts of protein into the wells of the SDS-PAGE gel and run the gel for 1 - 2 h at 100 V.
  10. Transfer the protein from the gel to the PVDF membrane.
  11. After transferring, block the membrane for 1 h at room temperature using a blocking buffer (5% skim milk + TBS with 0.05% Tween-20).
  12. Incubate the membrane with 1:1,000 dilutions of primary antibody (Table 4) in 1x TBST with 5% BSA buffer at 4 °C overnight.
  13. Wash the membrane three times with TBST, 15 min for each wash.
  14. Incubate the membrane with 1:2,500 dilutions of secondary antibody in the blocking buffer at room temperature for 2 h (see Table of Materials).
  15. Wash the membrane three times with TBST, 15 min for each wash.
  16. Prepare the membrane for HRP detection with a chemiluminescent substrate.
  17. Acquire chemiluminescent images.

7. Propidium Iodide (PI) staining of spheroids

  1. Prepare 5-10 spheroids as described in Step 4.1 and place the spheroids in an incubator at 37 °C and 5% CO2.
  2. Dilute a 1 mg/mL stock of PI 1:100 in 1x PBS.
  3. Remove 50% of the medium from each well of the 96-well plate.
  4. Add 100 µL of the PI solution to each well and place the wells in an incubator at 37 °C and 5% CO2 for 10 - 15 min.
  5. Wash out the PI solution with 1x PBS.
  6. Add 200 µL of growth medium and take an image using a fluorescence microscope. Analyze the fluorescence intensity using Image J to get the viability count of the spheroid.

8. FACS analysis of spheroids

  1. Generate spheroids as described previously.
  2. For each condition, prepare 30 - 40 spheroids in a FACS tube and centrifuge for 3 min at 400 x g and RT.
  3. Aspirate the supernatant and wash the spheroids in 3 mL of 1x PBS, then centrifuge at 400 x g for 3 min at 4 °C.
  4. Aspirate the supernatant and add 200 µL of 0.25% Trypsin-EDTA, then incubate at RT for 2 -3 min.
    NOTE: The incubation time is dependent on the spheroid size and cell type.
  5. Add 1 mL of FACS buffer and gently dissociate the spheroids using a 200 μL pipette.
  6. Centrifuge the dissociated cells at 400 x g and 4 °C for 3 min.
    NOTE: FACS buffer = 1x PBS + 2.5% FBS, filtered using a 0.22 µm top filter.
  7. Discard the supernatant and add 7-AAD/Annexin V reagent (7AAD (5 µL), Annexin V (5 µL)/sample).
  8. Gently vortex the cells and incubate for 13 - 30 min at RT in the dark.
  9. Add 500 µL of FACS buffer and filter the cells using conical polystyrene test tubes to remove aggregate cells.
  10. Centrifuge at 400 x g and 4 °C for 3 min.
  11. Add 500 µL of Annexin V binding buffer to each tube and resuspend.
  12. Analyze using a flow cytometer.

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Results

We describe the protocol of obtaining spheroids from diverse colorectal cancer cell lines. Supplementation with methylcellulose was required to generate spheroids. We also present a method of LCFS preparation and present a model to study the correlation between probiotics and colorectal cancer. Spheroid formation and LCFS preparation protocols are schematically illustrated in Figure 1A,B. As shown in Figure 2A, methylcellulose concentration of 0...

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Discussion

The tissue microenvironment, including neighboring cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM), is fundamental to tissue generation and crucial in the control of cell growth and tissue development13. However, 2D cultures have several disadvantages, such as the disruption of cellular interactions, as well as alterations in cell morphology, extracellular environments, and the approach of division14. 3D cell culture systems have been rigorously studied to better reproduce in vivo...

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Disclosures

The authors have no relevant financial disclosures.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the “Establishment of measurement standards for Chemistry and Radiation”, grant number KRISS-2020-GP2020-0003, and “Development of Measurement Standards and Technology for Biomaterials and Medical Convergence”, grant number KRISS-2020-GP2020-0004 programs, funded by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science. This research was also supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019M3A9F3065868), The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI, HI20C0558), the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE), and Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT, 20009350). ORCID ID (Hee Min Yoo: 0000-0002-5951-2137; Dukjin Kang: 0000-0002-5924-9674; Seil Kim: 0000-0003-3465-7118; Joo-Eun Lee: 0000-0002-2495-1439; Jina Lee: 0000-0002-3661-3701). We thank Chang Woo Park for assistance with experiments.

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Materials

List of materials used in this article
NameCompanyCatalog NumberComments

10% Mini-PROTEAN TGX Precast Protein Gels, 15-well, 15 µl		Biorad4561036Pkg of 10
Applied Biosystems MicroAmp Optical Adhesive FilmThermo Fisher Scientific4311971100 covers
10x transfer bufferIntronIBS-BT031A1 L
10X Tris-Glycine (W/SDS)IntronIBS-BT0141 L
Axygen 2.0 mL MaxyClear Snaplock Microcentrifuge Tube, Polypropylene, Clear, Nonsterile, 500 Tubes/Pack, 10 Packs/CaseCorningSCT-200-C500 Tubes/Pack, 10 Packs/Case
BD Difco Bacto AgarBD214010500 g
BD Difco Lactobacilli MRS BrothBDDF0881-17-5500 g
CellTiter-Glo 3D Cell viability assayPromegaG9681100μl/assay in 96-well plates
Complete Protease Inhibitor CocktailSigma-Aldrich11697498001vial of 20 tablets
Corning Phosphate-Buffered Saline, 1X without calcium and magnesium, PH 7.4 ± 0.1Corning21-040-CV500 mL
EMD Millipore Immobilon-P PVDF Transfer Membranesfisher ScientificIPVH0001026.5cm x 3.75m roll; Pore Size: 0.45um
Falcon 5 mL Round Bottom Polystyrene Test Tube, with Cell Strainer Snap CapCorning35223525/Pack, 500/Case
Fetal Bovine Serum, certified, US originThermo Fisher Scientific16000044500 mL
iScript cDNA Synthesis Kit, 25 x 20 µl rxns #1708890Biorad170889025 x 20 µL rxns
iTaq Universal SYBR Green SupermixBiorad17251215 x 1 mL
Lactobacillus fermentumKorean Collection for Type CulturesKCTC 3112
L-Cysteine hydrochloride monohydrateSigma-AldrichC6852-25G25 g
Methyl Cellulose (3500-5600mPa·s, 2% in Water at 20°C)TCIM0185500 g
MicroAmp Fast Optical 96-Well Reaction Plate with Barcode, 0.1 mLApplied Biosystems434690620 plates
Millex-GS Syringe Filter Unit, 0.22 µm, mixed cellulose esters, 33 mm, ethylene oxide sterilizedMilliporeSLGS033SB250
PE Annexin V Apoptosis Detection Kit with 7-AADBiolegend640934100 tests
Penicillin-Streptomycin (10,000 U/mL)Thermo Fisher Scientific15140122100 mL
Propidium IodideIntrogenP1304MP100 mg
RIPA Lysis and Extraction BufferThermo Fisher Scientific89901250 mL
RNeasy Mini Kit (250)Qiagen74106250
RPMI-1640Gibco11875-119500 mL
Trypsin-EDTA (0.25%), phenol redThermo Fisher Scientific25200056100 mL
Name of Materials/Equipment/SoftwareCompanyCatalog NumberComments/Description
anti - p-IκBα (B-9)Santa cruzesc-8404200 µg/mL
anti-BclxL (H-5)Santa cruzesc-8392200 µg/mL
anti-PARP 1 (C2-10)Santa cruzesc-5364350 µl ascites
anti-β-actin (C4)Santa cruzesc-47778200 µg/mL
BD FACSVerseBD BiosciencesSan Diego, CA, USA
Synergy HTX Multi-Mode Microplate ReaderBioTS1LFA
CO2 incubatorThermo fisherHERAcell 150i
Conical tube 15 mlSPL50015
Conical tube 50 mlSPL50050
Corning Costar Ultra-Low Attachment Multiple Well PlateSigma-AldrichCLS7007
Corning Costar Ultra-Low Attachment Multiple Well PlateSigma-AldrichCLS3471
Costar 50 mL Reagent Reservoirs, 5/Bag, SterileCostar4870
Countess Cell Counting Chamber SlidesThermofisherC10228
Countess II FL Automated Cell CounterinvitrogenAMQAF1000
EnSpire Multimode ReaderPerkin ElmerEnspire 2300
Eppendorf Research Plus Multi Channel Pipette, 8-channelEppendorf3122000051
FlowJo softwareTreeStarAshland, OR, USA
Goat Anti-Mouse IgG (H+L)Jackson immunoresearch115-035-0621.5 mL
Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG (H+L)Jackson immunoresearch111-035-1442.0 mL
GraphPad Prism 5GraphPad SoftwareInc., San Diego, CA, USA
ImageJNIH
ImageQuant LAS 4000 miniFujifilmTokyo, Japan
Incubated shakerLab companionSIF-6000R
Multi Gauge Ver. 3.0,FujifilmTokyo, Japan
Optical density (OD)LAMBDA UV/Vis SpectrophotometersPerkin ElmerWaltham, MA, USA
Phase-contrast microscopeOlympusTokyo, Japan
SPL microcentrifuge tube 1.5mLSPL60015
SPL Multi Channel Reservoirs, 12-Chs, PS, SterileSPL21012
StepOnePlus Real-Time PCR systemThermo Fisher ScientificWaltham, MA, USA
Vibra-Cell Ultrasonic Liquid ProcessorsSONICS-vibra cellVC 505500 Watt ultrasonic processor
Vinyl Anaerobic ChamberCOY LAB PRODUCTS

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