Developing a Drug Screening Platform: MALDI-Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Paper-Based Cultures

Fernando Tobias, Julie C. McIntosh, Gabriel J. Labonia, Matthew W. Boyce, Matthew R. Lockett, Amanda B. Hummon*

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Abstract

Many potential chemotherapeutics fail to reach patients. One of the key reasons is that compounds are tested during the drug discovery stage in two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures, which are often unable to accurately model in vivo outcomes. Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro tumor models are more predictive of chemotherapeutic effectiveness than 2D cultures, and thus, their implementation during the drug screening stage has the potential to more accurately evaluate compounds earlier, saving both time and money. Paper-based cultures (PBCs) are an emerging 3D culture platform in which cells suspended in Matrigel are seeded into paper scaffolds and cultured to generate a tissue-like environment. In this study, we demonstrate the potential of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry imaging with PBCs (MALDI-MSI-PBC) as a drug screening platform. This method discriminated regions of the PBCs with and without cells and/or drugs, indicating that coupling PBCs with MALDI-MSI has the potential to develop rapid, large-scale, and parallel mass spectrometric drug screens.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)15370-15376
Number of pages7
JournalAnalytical Chemistry
Volume91
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 17 2019
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry

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