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A Lab-Made Wound Maker for Analysis of Cell Migration in a 96-Well Plate

세포 이동능력 분석을 위한 96-Well Plate 전용 Lab-Made Wound Maker

  • Lee, Tae Bok (Confocal Core Facility, Center for Medical Innovation, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hwa Ryoung (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Park, Seo Young (Department of Research and Experiments, Center for Medical Innovation, Seoul National University Hospital)
  • 이태복 (서울대학교병원 의학연구혁신센터 공초점현미경실) ;
  • 김화룡 (서울대학교병원 의공학과) ;
  • 박서영 (서울대학교병원 의학연구혁신센터 연구실험부)
  • Received : 2020.01.03
  • Accepted : 2020.02.09
  • Published : 2020.03.31

Abstract

Cell migration is a central process for recovering from wounds triggered by physical distress besides embryogenesis and cancer metastasis. Wound healing assay is widely used as a fundamental research technique for investigation of two-dimensional cell migration in vitro. The most common approach for imitating physical wound in vitro is mechanical scratching on the surface of the confluent monolayer by using sharp materials. The iron metal pin with a suspension spring for fine adjustment of the orthogonal contact surface between the scratching point and the individual bottom of multi-well plate with planar curvatures were adopted for the creative invention of a 96-well plate wound maker. While classic tips drew diverse and zigzag scratching patterns on the confluent monolayer, our wound maker displayed synchronized linear wounds in the middle of each well of a 96-well plate that was seeded with several cell lines. Given that several types of multi-well plates commercially available are compatible with our lab-made wound maker for creating uniform scratches on the confluent monolayer for the collective cell migration in wound healing assay, it is certain that the application of this wound maker to the real-time wound healing assay in high content screening (HCS) is superior than utilization of typical polypropylene pipette tips.

Cell migration은 embryogenesis 혹은 cancer metastasis 이외에, 물리적 손상에 의한 상처의 수복을 위해서 손상된 부위로 세포가 이동하는 매우 흔하게 관찰되는 현상 중 하나 이다. Wound healing assay는 in vitro의 이차원 평면상에서 세포의 이동을 관찰할 수 있는 기본적인 연구 기법이다. In vitro상에서 물리적 손상을 재현하는 가장 손쉬운 접근법으로서, 세포의 confluent monolayer 표면에 날카로운 도구를 이용하여 기계적인 스크레치를 내는 방법이 사용되고 있다. 완충 스프링이 탑재된 금속 핀을 96-well plate를 기반으로 하는 wound maker에 장착하여 multi-well plate 바닥 표면의 고르지 못한 굴곡과 스크레칭 팁 사이에 직각을 이루는 접촉면에서의 미세한 조절이 가능하도록 하였다. 실험용 팁으로 confluent monolayer위에 스크래치를 내었을 때에는 다양한 지그재그 패턴이 그려진 반면에, 직접 제작한 wound maker에서는 동일한 형태의 선형 wounds가 fibroblast가 seeding된 96-well plate의 각 well의 중심부에 그려짐을 확인하였다. 상용화 되어있는 몇몇 multi-well plate가 본 실험에서 제작된 wound maker와 호환되는 것을 고려하여 보았을 때에, 실시간 wound healing을 관찰하는 high content screening (HCS)실험에 있어서의 활용적인 측면에서 기존의 전형적인 polypropylene 파이펫 팁을 이용한 스크래칭 방법보다 더욱 용이한 방법임을 알 수 있다.

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