Single-Use, Metabolite Absorbing, Resonant Transducer (SMART) Culture Vessels for Label-Free, Continuous Cell Culture Progression Monitoring
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2024-06-20
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Wiley-VCH GmbH
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Secreted metabolites are an important class of bio-process analytical technology (PAT) targets that can correlate to cell conditions. However, current strategies for measuring metabolites are limited to discrete measurements, resulting in limited understanding and ability for feedback control strategies. Herein, a continuous metabolite monitoring strategy is demonstrated using a single-use metabolite absorbing resonant transducer (SMART) to correlate with cell growth. Polyacrylate is shown to absorb secreted metabolites from living cells containing hydroxyl and alkenyl groups such as terpenoids, that act as a plasticizer. Upon softening, the polyacrylate irreversibly conformed into engineered voids above a resonant sensor, changing the local permittivity which is interrogated, contact-free, with a vector network analyzer. Compared to sensing using the intrinsic permittivity of cells, the SMART approach yields a 20-fold improvement in sensitivity. Tracking growth of many cell types such as Chinese hamster ovary, HEK293, K562, HeLa, and E. coli cells as well as perturbations in cell proliferation during drug screening assays are demonstrated. The sensor is benchmarked to show continuous measurement over six days, ability to track different growth conditions, selectivity to transducing active cell growth metabolites against other components found in the media, and feasibility to scale out for high throughput campaigns.
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This article is published as Chan, Yee Jher, Dhananjay Dileep, Samuel M. Rothstein, Eric W. Cochran, and Nigel F. Reuel. "Single‐Use, Metabolite Absorbing, Resonant Transducer (SMART) Culture Vessels for Label‐Free, Continuous Cell Culture Progression Monitoring." Advanced Science (2024): 2401260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202401260.
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