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Development of Spheroid-FPOP: An In-Cell Protein Footprinting Method for 3D Tumor Spheroids

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Many cancer drugs fail at treating solid epithelial tumors with hypoxia and insufficient drug penetration thought to be contributing factors to the observed chemoresistance. Owing to this, it is imperative… Click to show full abstract

Many cancer drugs fail at treating solid epithelial tumors with hypoxia and insufficient drug penetration thought to be contributing factors to the observed chemoresistance. Owing to this, it is imperative to evaluate potential cancer drugs in conditions as close to in vivo as possible, which is not always done. To address this, we developed a mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting method for exploring the impact of hypoxia on protein in 3D colorectal cancer cells. Our group has previously extended the protein footprinting method fast photochemical oxidation of proteins (FPOP) for live cell analysis (IC-FPOP); however, this is the first application of IC-FPOP in a 3D cancer model. In this study, we perform IC-FPOP on intact spheroids (Spheroid-FPOP) using a modified version of the static platform incubator with an XY movable stage (PIXY) FPOP platform. We detected modification in each of three spheroid layers, even the hypoxic core. Pathway analysis revealed protein modifications in over 10 distinct protein pathways, including some involved in protein ubiquitination; a process modulated in cancer pathologies. These results demonstrate the feasibility of Spheroid-FPOP to be utilized as a tool to interrogate protein interactions within a native tumor microenvironment.

Keywords: spheroid fpop; footprinting method; protein footprinting; fpop; cancer

Journal Title: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Year Published: 2023

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