Live Cell FRET Analysis of the Conformational Changes of Human P-glycoprotein    

Materials and Reagents

1. 35 mm glass-based dish (IWAKI, catalog number: 3971-035)

2. 100 mm cell culture dish (Falcon, catalog number: 353003)

3. 1.5 ml tube (Watson, catalog number: 131-815C)

4. 15 ml tube (Corning, catalog number: CLS430791)

5. 0.22 μm filter (Millipore, catalog number: SLGP033RS)

6. Mammalian expression vector that encodes FRET probe (see the beginning of the section Procedure below)

7. HEK293 cells (ACTT^® CRL-1573^TM)

8. Poly-L-lysine (PLL) solution 0.01% (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: P4707-50ML)

9. DMEM (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 08458-16)

10. 0.5% Trypsin-EDTA (10×) (Gibco, catalog number: 15400-054)

11. Fetal Bovine Serum (Gibco, catalog number: 10270-106)

12. Lipofectamine LTX with PLUS Reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific, catalog number: 15338100)

13. Opti-MEM (1×) (Gibco, catalog number: 2151680)

14. FluoroBrite DMEM (Gibco, catalog number: A1896701)

15. Sodium pyruvate (100 mM) (Gibco, catalog number: 11360-070)

16. GlutaMAX (100×) (Gibco, catalog number: 35050061)

17. Verapamil chloride (Wako, catalog number: 228-00783)

18. PEI MAX (MW = 40,000) (Polysciences, catalog number: 24765-1)

19. Adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP) disodium salt (Oriental Yeast, catalog number: 45142000)

20. Streptolysin O (SLO) (BioAcademia, catalog number: 01-531)

21. DAPI (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: D9542-1MG)

22. NaCl (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 31320-05)

23. Na₂HPO₄·12H₂O (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 31723-35)

24. KCl (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 28514-75)

25. KH₂PO₄ (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 28721-55)

26. HEPES (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 17514-15)

27. KOH (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 28616-45)

28. CH₃COOK (Wako catalog number: 160-03175)

29. MgCl₂·6H₂O (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 20909-55)

30. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: D2650)

31. NaOH (Nacalai Tesque, catalog number: 31511-05)

32. PLL solution (see Recipes)

33. 10× PBS(-) (see Recipes)

34. 1× PBS(-) (see Recipes)

35. 10× transport buffer (see Recipes)

36. 1× transport buffer (see Recipes)

37. 0.05% Trypsin-EDTA (see Recipes)

38. 100 mM ATP stock solution (see Recipes)

39. 50 mM verapamil stock solution (see Recipes)

40. 1 mg/ml DAPI stock solution (see Recipes)

41. 100 mM NaN₃ stock solution (see Recipes)

42. 1 M MgCl₂ stock solution (see Recipes)

43. 1 mg/ml PEI-MAX (see Recipes)

Equipment

1. Autoclave (TOMY, model: LSX-500)

2. Vortex mixer (Scientific Industries, model: VORTEX-GENIE 2)

3. Temperature bath (TAITEC, model: SDminiN)

4. CO₂ incubator (Thermo Fisher Scientific, model: Forma 310 Direct Heat CO₂ incubator)

5. Centrifuge (TOMY, model: LC-200, rotor: TS-7LB)

6. Cell counter (DeNovix, model: Cell Drop BF)

7. Confocal laser scanning microscope (Carl-Zeiss, model: LSM700) operated by Zen 2012 and equipped with an objective lens (Plan-Apochromato ×63/1.4 NA oil immersion), an incubation chamber, temperature module S, and CO₂ module S.

Software

1. ImageJ-based Fiji (version 1.52p) (https://imagej.net/Fiji) (Schindelin et al., 2012)

2. FRET and Colocalization Analyzer

   (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/fret-analyzer/fret-analyzer.htm) (Hachet-Haas et al., 2006)

Procedure

For this protocol, we used human P-gp FRET probes (Futamata et al., 2020). Schematic representations of the fluorescent protein-tagged P-gps are shown in Figure 1. Human P-gp FRET probes are available from the corresponding author, Kazumitsu Ueda (ueda.kazumitsu.7w@kyoto-u.ac.jp).

Note: HEK293 cells are maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS (10%FBS-DMEM) in a 100 mm cell culture dish at 37 °C under 5% CO₂. For incubation, a CO₂ incubator was used.

1. Intact cells

   1. Transient expression of fluorescent protein-tagged P-gps

      1. Day 1 Add 100 μl PLL solution to the 35 mm glass-based dish and incubate for 30 min at room temperature.

         Note: PLL solution was used to promote cell adhesion to the dish.

      2. Wash with 1.5 ml 1× PBS(-) twice.

      3. Prepare HEK293 cells cultured in the 100 mm cell culture dish and discard the culture medium.

      4. Wash with 1.5 ml 1× PBS(-) twice

      5. Add 1 ml 0.05% EDTA-Trypsin and incubate for 2 min at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

      6. Add 9 ml 10% FBS-DMEM and transfer to a 15 ml tube.

      7. Centrifuge at 1,100 × g for 2 min at room temperature.

      8. Discard the supernatant and add 10 ml 10% FBS-DMEM.

      9. Count the number of cells using CellDrop following the manufacturer’s protocol.

      10. Dilute the cells to 1.5 × 10⁵ cells/ml.

      11. Seed HEK293 cells to the glass-based dish at 3.0 × 10⁵ cells/well and incubate for 24 h at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

      12. Day 2 Prepare the DNA-lipid complex.

          Note: The minimum plasmid DNA set is P-gp–FRET, two negative controls (P-gp–mCerulean and P-gp–mVenus), and one positive control (P-gp–VsCn).

          1. Mix 2.5 μg plasmid DNA and 2.5 μl PLUS Reagent in 500 μl Opti-MEM and mix with the vortex mixer.

          2. Incubate for 5 min at room temperature.

          3. Add 6.25 μl Lipofectamine LTX and mix with the vortex mixer.

          4. Incubate for 30 min at room temperature.

      13. Replace the medium with 500 μl DNA-lipid complex and 1.5 ml 10% FBS-DMEM and incubate for 23 h at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

   2. Image acquisition

      1. Day 3 Wash with 2 ml FluoroBrite DMEM twice.

      2. Replace the medium with 1 ml FluoroBrite DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS, 1 mM sodium pyruvate, and 1× GlutaMAX and incubate for 1 h.

      3. Transfer the dish to the incubation chamber equipped to the microscope.

      4. Transfer 500 μl medium to a 1.5 ml tube and mix with 2 μl verapamil chloride stock solution (final 100 μM).

         Notes:

         1. Do not add verapamil chloride stock solution to the glass-based dish directly because HEK293 cells can be peeled off by pipetting.

         2. Verapamil is a P-gp substrate.

      5. Return the medium to the glass-based dish and further incubate for 5 min.

      6. Acquire images of the mVenus, mCerulean, and FRET signals according to the parameters below and save as .lsm or .czi format.

         mVenus is excited at 488 nm, and the fluorescence emission is collected using a band pass filter (521-600 nm) (Figure 2). mCerulean is excited at 445 nm, and the fluorescence emission is collected using a short-pass filter (490 nm). For the FRET signal image, the laser is set to 445 nm, and the sensitized emission is collected using a band pass filter (521-600 nm) (Figure 3).

         Note: Representative raw images of every channel of all four plasmids are shown in Figure 4.

   
   

   
   Figure 2. Zen software settings for mVenus imaging

   
   

   
   Figure 3. Zen software settings for mCerulean imaging and FRET signal imaging

   
   

   
   Figure 4. Representative raw images of every channel for all four plasmids. Scale bars = 10 μm.




2. Semi-intact cells

   Note: Membrane permeabilization is suitable for manipulating the concentration of small molecules such as nucleotides.

   1. Transient expression of the fluorescent protein tagged P-gp constructs.

      1. Day 1 Seed the HEK293 cells as described in Steps A1a-A1k.

      2. Day 2 Prepare the DNA-lipid complex as below.

         Note: Do not use Lipofectamine LTX when performing membrane permeabilization because it inhibits the pore formation by SLO.

         1. Mix 2 μg plasmid DNA and 98 μl Opti-MEM in a 1.5 ml tube and mix with the vortex mixer.

         2. Mix 10 μl 1 mg/ml PEI-MAX and 90 μl Opti-MEM in another 1.5 ml tube and mix with the vortex mixer.

         3. Mix the DNA and PEI-MAX and mix with the vortex mixer.

         4. Incubate at room temperature for 30 min.

      3. Replace the medium with 200 μl DNA-PEI complex and 1.8 ml 10% FBS-DMEM and incubate for 24 h at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

   2. Membrane permeabilization and image acquisition

      Note: We recommend performing this step using one or two samples at a time in order to avoid the cells permeabilizing for a long time.

      1. Day 3 Wash with 2 ml ice-cold 1× PBS(-).

      2. Add 1 ml serum-free DMEM containing 50 ng/μl SLO and incubate for 5 min on ice.

         Notes:

         1. Dilute SLO just before use.

         2. SLO is a streptococcal toxin which forms 25-30 nm aqueous pores within the plasma membrane, which allows the free passage of ions and small molecules.

      3. Wash with 2 ml ice-cold 1× PBS(-) three times.

      4. Add 1 ml 1× transport buffer pre-heated at 37 °C supplemented with 2 mM MgCl₂, 5 mM ATP disodium salt, and 2 μg/ml DAPI. For ATP depletion, add 1× transport buffer supplemented with 2 mM MgCl₂, 2 μg/ml DAPI, and 10 mM NaN₃.

      5. Incubate for 10 min at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

      6. Wash twice with 2 ml 1× transport buffer pre-heated at 37 °C.

      7. Add 1 ml of the pre-heated 1× transport buffer supplemented with 2 mM MgCl₂, 5 mM ATP disodium salt, and 100 μM verapamil chloride.

      8. Transfer the dish to the incubation chamber equipped to the microscope and incubate for 5 min at 37 °C under 5% CO₂.

      9. Acquire images of the mVenus, mCerulean, and FRET signals of DAPI-positive cells according to the parameters described in Step A2f.

Data analysis

The FRET efficiency (proximity ratio) was calculated using Equation 1.

where I_DA is the FRET signal or the sensitized emission of the acceptor during donor excitation (excitation 445 nm/emission 521-600 nm), I_DD is the donor fluorescence during donor excitation (excitation 445 nm/emission 490 nm), and I_AA is the acceptor fluorescence during acceptor excitation (excitation 488 nm/emission 521-600 nm). a and d are the bleed-through of the acceptor and donor, respectively.

Segmentation of the plasma membrane and calculation of the proximity ratio:

1. Open the .lsm or .czi format images with ImageJ and convert to .tiff format.

2. Split the image to each channel (Image menu > Color > Split Channels).

3. Calculate the donor and acceptor bleed-through from the images expressing P-gp–mCerulean and P-gp–mVenus, respectively, using “FRET and Colocalization Analyzer”.

   1. Download “FRET and Colocalization Analyzer” from https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/fret-analyzer/fret-analyzer.htm to the plugins folder.

   2. Restart ImageJ to add the "Fret Analyzer" command to the Plugins menu.

   3. Open “FRET Analyzer” from the Plugins menu.

   4. For the donor bleed-through evaluation, input the number of controls (up to 10 controls).

   5. Select the donor channel image and the FRET signal image of the first control.

   6. Click the “Get” button.

   7. Perform (c) and (d) for all controls and acquire the mean of the donor bleed-through.

   8. Calculate the acceptor bleed-through the same way as the donor bleed-through.

4. If necessary, crop the images so that only a single cell is visible.

5. Save the images of the mCerulean, mVenus, FRET signals to separate folders.

6. Subtract the donor and acceptor bleed-through from the FRET signal image and create a corrected FRET (cFRET) image. This procedure is automatically performed by the home-made ImageJ macro described below.

   Notes:

   1. To use the following ImageJ macro, save the macro text as .txt format in the Macro subfolder in the ImageJ directory. Install the macro (Plugins > Macros > Install). Run the macro (Plugins > Macros > macro name).

   2. Before executing this ImageJ macro, uncheck “Scale when converting” (Edit menu > Options > Conversions… ).

   
   

   setBatchMode(true); //Batchmode ON

   // setBatchMode(false); //Batchmode OFF

   
   

   dir1 = getDirectory("Select mCerulean folder");

   //Select the folder in which the mCerulean images are saved

   dir2 = getDirectory("Select mVenus folder");

   //Select the folder in which the mVenus images are saved

   dir3 = getDirectory("Select FRET signal folder");

   //Select the folder in which the FRET images are saved

   dir4 = getDirectory("Select cFRET folder");

   //Select the folder in which the cFRET images are to be saved

   
   

   list1 = getFileList(dir1);

   list2 = getFileList(dir2);

   list3 = getFileList(dir3);

   
   

   A = getNumber("Enter donor BT",0);

   B = getNumber("Enter acceptor BT",0);

   
   

   for (i = 0; i < list1.length; i++){

   open(dir1 + list1[i]);

   c = getTitle();

   run("32-bit");

   //convert 8 bit image to 32 bit image

   run("Duplicate...", "title=mc");

   run("Select All");

   setColor(A);

   fill();

   imageCalculator("Multiply", "mc", c);

   open(dir2 + list2[i]);

   v = getTitle();

   run("32-bit");

   run("Duplicate...", "title=mv");

   run("Select All");

   setColor(B);

   fill();

   imageCalculator("Multiply", "mv", v);

   open(dir3 + list3[i]);

   f = getTitle();

   run("32-bit");

   imageCalculator("Subtract", f, "mc");

   imageCalculator("Subtract", f, "mv");

   run("8-bit");

   retstr = split(f,"_");

   Save_name = dir4 + retstr[0] + "_cF";

   saveAs("Tiff", Save_name);

   run("Close All");

   }

7. Segment the plasma membrane and evaluate the proximity ratio on the plasma membrane. This procedure is automatically performed by the home-made ImageJ macro described below.

   Notes:

   1. Representative images of the segmented plasma membrane are shown in Figure 5.

   2. Representative results of quantification of the proximity ratio are shown in Figure 6.

   
   

   
   Figure 5. Representative images of the original membrane and segmented plasma membrane. Scale bars = 5 μm.

   
   

   
   Figure 6. Representative results of the quantification of FRET efficiency. Representative data from cells expressing one type of fluorescent protein-tagged P-gp in the absence or presence of the transport substrate verapamil. Each value was obtained from a single cell. Average ratio indicates the proximity ratio.

   
   

   setBatchMode(true); //Batchmode ON

   //setBatchMode(false); //Batchmode OFF

   
   

   dir1 = getDirectory("Select mVenus folder");

   //Select the folder in which the mVenus images are saved

   dir2 = getDirectory("Select mCerulean folder");

   //Select the folder in which the mCerulean images are saved

   dir3 = getDirectory("Select cFRET folder");

   //Select the folder in which the cFRET images are saved

   dir4 = getDirectory("Select ROI folder");

   //Select the folder in which the ROI information is to be saved

   dir5 = getDirectory("Select PM folder");

   //Select the folder in which the segmented plasma membranes are to be saved

   dir6 = getDirectory("Select ratio image folder");

   //Select the folder in which the ratio images are to be saved

   
   

   list1 = getFileList(dir1);

   list2 = getFileList(dir2);

   list3 = getFileList(dir3);

   
   

   //Segmentation of the plasma membrane from a mVenus image

   
   

   for (i = 0; i < list1.length; i++){

   open(dir1 + list1[i]);

   Ori_name = getTitle(); //Get name of the image

   
   

   run("Duplicate...", Ori_name);

   //For segmentation of the plasma membrane, duplicate the original image

   run("Subtract Background...", "rolling=10");

   //Subtract background. ***Rolling ball radius should be optimized to avoid removing any objects***

   run("Enhance Contrast...", "saturated=0.4 normalize");

   run("Auto Local Threshold", "method=Phansalkar radius=15 parameter_1=0 parameter_2=0 white");

   //***To choose the most suitable method when making a binary image, try all methods (Image > Adjust > Auto Local Threshold > Method “Try all”)***

   run("Options...", "iterations=1 count=3 black do=Open");

   //Smoothen the plasma membrane by "Open (Dilute after Erode)"

   run("Analyze Particles...", "size=1-100 pixel include add");

   setForegroundColor(0,0,0);

   roiManager("deselect");

   roiManager("Fill");

   // Delete objects less than 100 pixels

   setOption("BlackBackground", true);

   run("Erode");

   roiManager("Delete");

   run("Analyze Particles...", "size=50-Infinity pixel circularity=0.00-0.3 add");

   // Select objects with size more than 50 pixels and circularity less than 0.3

   run("Select All");

   //Select all ROI

   roiManager("Combine");

   //Combine all ROI

   setBackgroundColor(0, 0, 0);

   run("Clear Outside");

   //Delete outside of the ROI in mVenus image

   Save_name = dir5 + "mem_" + Ori_name;

   saveAs("Tiff", Save_name);

   close();

   
   

   selectImage(1);

   setOption("Show All",true);

   roiManager("Measure");

   Save_name = dir4 + "ROI_" + Ori_name + ".zip";

   roiManager("Save", Save_name); //Save ROI information

   close();

   roiManager("Delete");

   }

   
   

   list4 = getFileList(dir4);

   
   

   //Evaluation of the proximity ratio from mCerulean and cFRET images

   
   

   for (i = 0; i < list2.length; i++){

   open(dir2 + list2[i]);

   //Open mCerulean image

   Ori_name = getTitle();

   open(dir3 + list3[i]);

   //Open cFRET image

   run("Images to Stack", "name=Stack title=[] use keep");

   setSlice(2);

   run("Add Slice");

   setSlice(1); //Select mCerulean image

   roiManager("Open", dir4 + list4[i]);

   run("Select All");

   roiManager("Combine");

   setBackgroundColor(0, 0, 0);

   run("Clear Outside","Slice");

   //Delete outside of the ROI in the mCerulean image

   for(ii = 0; ii < getWidth(); ii ++){

   for(iii = 0; iii < getHeight(); iii ++){

   val = getPixel(ii,iii);

   if(val > 0){

   setSlice(2);

   val2 = getPixel(ii,iii);

   ratio = val2 / val;

   //Calculate the proximity ratio (pixel value of cFRET image / pixel value of mCerulean image)

   sum += ratio;

   count += 1;

   setSlice(3);

   ratiop = ratio * 100;

   setPixel(ii, iii, ratiop);

   setSlice(1);

   }

   }

   }

   updateDisplay();

   Save_name = dir6 + "ratio_" + Ori_name;

   saveAs("Tiff", Save_name);

   ratiom = sum / count;

   //Divide total proximity ratio by the counted pixel number

   ar = newArray(sum, count, ratiom);

   Array.print(ar);

   //show sum of the proximity ratio, pixel numbers of the plasma membrane, and average of the proximity ratio on the Log window

   
   

   sum = 0;

   count = 0;

   run("Close All");

   roiManager("Delete");

   }

Recipes

1. PLL solution

   0.01% PLL solution             1 ml

   1× PBS(-)                            29 ml

   Store at 4 °C

2. 10× PBS(-)

   Note: (-) means without magnesium or calcium.

   NaCl                                         80 g  

   Na₂HPO₄·12H₂O                    29 g

   KCl                                       2 g

   KH₂PO₄                                    2 g

   Fill up to 1 L with milliQ. Store at room temperature

3. 1× PBS(-)

   10× PBS(-)     100 ml

   MilliQ             900 ml

   Sterilize by autoclave

   Store at 4 °C

4. 10× transport buffer

   1 M Hepes-KOH (pH 7.4)   125 ml

   CH₃COOK                             56.44 g

   MgCl₂·6H₂O                         2.54 g

   Fill up to 500 ml with MilliQ and sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

   Store at room temperature.

5. 1× transport buffer

   10× transport buffer                    100 ml

   MilliQ              900 ml

   Store at 4 °C

6. 0.05% Trypsin-EDTA

   0.5% Trypsin-EDTA (10×)  10 ml

   1× PBS(-)                                90ml

   Store at 4 °C

7. 100 mM ATP stock solution

   ATP disodium salt 551.1 mg

   Fill up to 10 ml with MilliQ

   Adjust pH to 7 with NaOH

   Sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

   Store at -30 °C

8. 50 mM verapamil stock solution

   Note: Prepare before use.

   Verapamil chloride                 24.6 mg

   DMSO                                        1 ml

   Sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

   Store at -30 °C

9. 1 mg/ml DAPI stock solution

   DAPI                      1 mg

   DMSO                       1 ml

   Sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

   Store at -30 °C

10. 100 mM NaN₃ stock solution

    NaN₃                   6.501 mg

    MilliQ                  1 ml

    Sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

    Store at -30 °C

11. 1 M MgCl₂ stock solution

    MgCl₂·6H₂O 20.33 g

    Fill up to 100 ml with MilliQ

    Sterilize by autoclave

    Store at 4 °C

12. 1 mg/ml PEI-MAX

    PEI-MAX                 10 mg

    1× PBS(-)                10 ml

    Sterilize with 0.22 μm filter

    Store at 4 °C

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 18H05269.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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