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Received January 23, 2006
Accepted April 19, 2006

In Vitro Toxicology

Investigation of Drug-induced Mitochondrial Toxicity using Fluorescence-based Oxygen-sensitive Probes

James Hynes 1 1, Lisa D. Marroquin 2 1, Vladimir I. Ogurtsov 1, Katerina N. Christiansen 2, Gregory J. Stevens 2, Dmitri B. Papkovsky 1, and Yvonne Will 2 *

1 Luxcel Biosciences Ltd., G.17, Lee Maltings, Cork, Ireland (www.luxcel.com)
2 Pfizer Global R&D, Safety Sciences, 10646 Science Centre Drive, San Diego, CA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Yvonne Will, E-mail: Yvonne.Will{at}pfizer.com


   Abstract

Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common mechanism of drug-induced toxicity. Early identification of new chemical entities (NCE) that perturb mitochondrial function is of significant importance to avoid attrition in later stages of drug development. One of the most informative ways of assessing mitochondrial dysfunction is by measuring mitochondrial oxygen consumption. However, the conventional polarographic method of measuring oxygen consumption is not amenable to high sample throughput or automation. We present an alternative, low-bulk, high throughput approach to the analysis of isolated mitochondrial oxygen consumption using luminescent oxygen-sensitive probes. Theses probes are dispensable and are analysed in standard microtitre plates on a fluorescence plate reader. Respiratory substrate and ADP dependencies of mitochondrial oxygen consumption were assessed using the fluorescence-based method and results compared favourably to conventional polarographic analysis. To assess assay performance the method was then applied to the analysis of a panel of classical modulators of oxidative phosphorylation. The effect of uncoupler concentration was analysed in detail to identify factors which would be important in applying this method to large scale NCE screening and mechanistic investigations. Results demonstrate that the 96-well format can accommodate up to ~200 compounds per day at a single concentration or alternatively IC50 values can be generated for ~25 compounds. Throughput may be increased by moving to a 384 well-plate format.

Keywords: Mitochondria; Respiration; Polarimetry; Fluorescence; Oxygen-Sensitive Probes; Oxygen-Dependent Enzymes; HTS; Toxicity; Drug Safety.

1LM and JH contributed equally to the work presented


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