Investigation of the metabolomic crosstalk between liver sinusoidal endothelial cells and hepatocytes exposed to paracetamol using organ-on-chip technology
Résumé
Organ-on-chip technology is a promising in vitro approach recapitulating human
physiology for the study of responses to drug exposure. Organ-on-chip cell cultures
have paved new grounds for testing and understanding metabolic dose-responses
when evaluating pharmaceutical and environmental toxicity. Here, we present a
metabolomic investigation of a coculture of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs,
SK-HEP-1) with hepatocytes (HepG2/C3a) using advanced organ-on-chip technology.
To reproduce the physiology of the sinusoidal barrier, LSECs were separated from
hepatocytes by a membrane (culture insert integrated organ-on-chip platform). The
tissues were exposed to acetaminophen (APAP), an analgesic drug widely used as a
xenobiotic model in liver and HepG2/C3a studies. The differences between the SK-
HEP-1, HepG2/C3a monocultures and SK-HEP-1/HepG2/C3a cocultures, treated or
not with APAP, were identified from metabolomic profiles using supervised multivariate
analysis. The pathway enrichment coupled with metabolite analysis of the
corresponding metabolic fingerprints contributed to extracting the specificity of each
type of culture and condition. In addition, we analysed the responses to APAP
treatment by mapping the signatures with significant modulation of the biological
processes of the SK-HEP-1 APAP, HepG2/C3a APAP and SK-HEP-1/HepG2/C3a
APAP conditions. Furthermore, our model shows how the presence of the LSECs
barrier and APAP first pass can modify the metabolism of HepG2/C3a. Altogether, this
study demonstrates the potential of a “metabolomic-on-chip” strategy for pharmaco-
metabolomic applications predicting individual response to drugs.
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