Fluorescence-based discrimination of breast cancer cells by direct exposure to 5-aminolevulinic acid

Cancer Medicine
Midori MoritaTetsuro Takamatsu

Abstract

Protoporphyrin IX-fluorescence measurement is a powerful in situ approach for cancer detection after oral/topical administration of 5-aminolevulinic acid. However, this approach has not been clinically established for breast cancer, probably due to insufficient delivery of 5-aminolevulinic acid to the mammary glands. In the present study, we directly exposed breast cancer cells to 5-aminolevulinic acid to assess their discrimination via protoporphyrin IX-fluorescence. Fluorescence intensity (FI) was measured in the human breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 and breast epithelial cell line MCF10A by confocal microscopy and flow cytometry. After 5-aminolevulinic acid exposure for 2 hours, protoporphyrin IX-FI in MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly increased with marked cell-to-cell variability, whereas that in MCF10A cells increased moderately. Combined exposure of the cancer cells to 5-aminolevulinic acid and Ko143, a specific inhibitor of ATP-binding cassette transporter G2, further increased protoporphyrin IX-FI and alleviated the cell-to-cell variability in MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, indicating improvement in the reproducibility and accuracy for fluorescence-based cancer detection. The increased FI by combined adm...Continue Reading

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