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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Advances, 33(9), 2023

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6061

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Profiling single cancer cell metabolism via high-content SRS imaging with chemical sparsity

Journal article published in 2023 by Yuying Tan ORCID, Haonan Lin ORCID, Ji-Xin Cheng ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Metabolic reprogramming in a subpopulation of cancer cells is a hallmark of tumor chemoresistance. However, single-cell metabolic profiling is difficult because of the lack of a method that can simultaneously detect multiple metabolites at the single-cell level. In this study, through hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering (hSRS) imaging in the carbon-hydrogen (C–H) window and sparsity-driven hyperspectral image decomposition, we demonstrate a high-content hSRS (h 2 SRS) imaging approach that enables the simultaneous mapping of five major biomolecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, cholesterol, and nucleic acids at the single-cell level. h 2 SRS imaging of brain and pancreatic cancer cells under chemotherapy revealed acute and adapted chemotherapy-induced metabolic reprogramming and the unique metabolic features of chemoresistance. Our approach is expected to facilitate the discovery of therapeutic targets to combat chemoresistance. This study illustrates a high-content, label-free chemical imaging approach that measures metabolic profiles at the single-cell level and warrants further research on cellular metabolism.