Cytosensor Microphysiometer: technology and recent applications.

The Cytosensor Microphysiometer system detects functional responses from living cells in minutes and offers novel information on cell signalling that is often unobtainable with other assay methods. The principle of the system is based on the measurement of small changes in extracellular acidification, using a light addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS). Energy metabolism in living cells is tightly coupled to cellular ATP usage, so that any event which perturbs cellular ATP levels--such as receptor activation and initiation of signal transduction--will result in a change in acid excretion. As the extrusion of protons is a very general parameter involved in the activation of nearly all kinds of membrane-bound receptors, receptors can be investigated without prior knowledge of the corresponding signalling pathway. However, by blocking certain signalling pathways inside the cell by means of signal transduction probes, specificity can be brought into the system and the corresponding receptor pathways can easily be elucidated. The aim is to give an overview about Cytosensor Microphysiometer technology and to demonstrate, with the help of some recent applications, the capability of the system to measure acidification rates from a wide variety of cell- and receptor-types coupled to different signal transduction pathways. This feature makes the cytosensor system an ideal tool for acting as a single assay system and circumventing the need for multiple assays.

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