This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (K01DK114390), a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society (RSG-18-050-01-NEC), a Research Pilot Project Grant from University of New Mexico Environmental Health Signature Program and Superfund (P42 ES025589), a Shared Resources Pilot Project Award and a Research Program Support Pilot Project Award from UNM comprehensive cancer center (P30CA118100), and a new investigator award from the Dedicated Health Research Funds at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

1. Cell seeding
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	<li>Seed 2 x 105 HCT116 colorectal cancer cells per well in a 24-well plate and maintain the cells in Dulbecco&#39;s modified Eagle medium (DMEM) overnight at 37 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Replace the culture medium with or without 100 &#181;M ferrous sulfate (FS) or 10 &#181;M doxorubicin (DOX) containing medium and incubate for 24 h.</li>
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2. Preparation of the DCFH-DA solution
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	<li>Dissolve 4.85 mg of DCFH-DA in 1 mL of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to make a 10 mM stock solution.</li>
	<li>Dilute the stock solution with pre-warmed DMEM into 10 &#181;M working solution right before adding it to the wells.</li>
	<li>Vortex the working solution for 10 s.</li>
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3. DCFH-DA staining
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	<li>Remove the drug containing medium and wash once with DMEM.</li>
	<li>Add 500 &#181;L of the DCFH-DA working solution into each well and incubate at 37 &#176;C for 30 min.</li>
	<li>Remove the DCFH-DA working solution. Wash once with DMEM and 2x with 1x phosphate-buffered saline (PBS).</li>
	<li>Add 500 &#181;L of 1x PBS to each well.</li>
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4. Imaging acquisition and intensity measurement
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	<li>Take representative fluorescent images for each well using the green fluorescent protein (GFP) channel on a fluorescence microscope.</li>
	<li>After taking images, remove PBS and add 200 &#181;L of radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) buffer to each well.</li>
	<li>Incubate on ice for 5 min, then collect cell lysate into 1.5 mL tubes.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge at 21,130 x g for 10 min at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Transfer 100 &#181;L of the supernatant to a black 96 well plate and measure the fluorescence intensity using a fluorescence a microplate reader at an excitation wavelength of 485 nm and an emission wavelength of 530 nm.</li>
	<li>Transfer 1 &#181;L of the supernatant to a clear 96 well plate containing 100 &#181;L of 1x protein assay solution to measure the protein concentration using the Bradford assay9.</li>
	<li>Normalize fluorescence intensities with protein concentrations.</li>
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The experimental protocol described here is easily reproducible to measure cellular total ROS. The critical steps include making DCFH-DA solution fresh and avoiding light exposure, minimizing cell status disturbance and extensive PBS washing right before taking images. For the preparation of DCFH-DA working solution, the stock solution should be added into pre-warmed DMEM right before adding into the 24 well plate. The reason is that old solutions that generate high background fluorescence or light exposure will lead to ...

Three major reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by cellular metabolism that are of physiological meaning are superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical, and hydrogen peroxide1. At low concentrations, they participate in physiological cell processes, but at high concentrations they have adverse effects on cell signaling pathways1. Our body has developed antioxidant systems, which are effective against excessive ROS. However, oxidative stress can occur when ROS overwhelm the detoxifying ability of our body, which contributes to many pathological conditions, including inflammation, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease2,3,4. The purpose of this method is to determine total cellular ROS in adherent cells using 2&#39;,7&#39;-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) staining. The rationale is that oxidation of DCFH-DA to 2&#8217;-7&#8217;dichlorofluorescein (DCF) has been used extensively for total ROS detection including hydroxyl radicals (&#8226;OH) and nitrogen dioxide (&#8226;NO2). Mechanistically, DCFH-DA is taken up by cells where cellular esterase cleaves off the acetyl groups, resulting in DCFH. Oxidation of DCFH by ROS converts the molecule to DCF, which emits green fluorescence at an excitation wavelength of 485 nm and an emission wavelength of 530 nm. Compared with detection of fluorescence with flow cytometry and other alternative methods5, advantages of this method using a fluorescence microscope and a plate reader are that it produces clearly visible fluorescent images, and is easy to perform, efficient and cost-effective. This method has been widely used to detect cellular ROS for studying various conditions6,7,8. This protocol is used for detecting total ROS in adherent cells. Using this method to detect ROS in suspension cells may need some modifications.

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detection of total reactive oxygen species in adherent cells by 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate staining

Oxidative stress is an important event under both physiological and pathological conditions. In this study, we demonstrate how to quantify oxidative stress by measuring total reactive oxygen species (ROS) using 2&#39;,7&#39;-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) staining in colorectal cancer cell lines as an example. This protocol describes detailed steps including preparation of DCFH-DA solution, incubation of cells with DCFH-DA solution, and measurement of normalized intensity. DCFH-DA staining is a simple and cost-effective way to detect ROS in cells. It can be used to measure ROS generation after chemical treatment or genetic modifications. Therefore, it is useful for determining cellular oxidative stress upon environment stress, providing clues to mechanistic studies.

HCT116 colorectal cancer cells were treated with 100 &#181;M FS or 10 &#181;M DOX to induce oxidative stress7. As shown in Figure 1, green fluorescence was dramatically increased by both FS and DOX as expected. To quantify the relative intensity change, the cells were lysed after taking images and normalized with protein concentrations. The quantified fluorescence intensity was significantly increased by FS or DOX in HCT116 cells.
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Oxidative species are produced not only under pathological situations (cancers, ischemic/reperfusion, neurologic and cardiovascular pathologies, infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases 1, autoimmune diseases 2, etc&hellip;) but also during physiological (non-pathological) situations such as cellular metabolism 3, 4. Indeed, ROS play important roles in many cellular signaling pathways (proliferation, cell activation 5, 6, migration 7 etc..). ROS can be detrimental (it is then referred to as "oxidative and nitrosative stress") when produced in high amounts in the intracellular compartments and cells generally respond to ROS by upregulating antioxidants such as superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione (GSH) that protects them by converting dangerous free radicals to harmless molecules (i.e. water). Vitamins C and E have also been described as ROS scavengers (antioxidants).
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This video describes the protocol for detecting total cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) using 2&#39;,7&#39;-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA). This method helps visualize ROS localization in the adherent cells using a fluorescence microscope and further quantify ROS intensity with a fluorescence plate reader.

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ROS Detection with DCFH-DA Staining: Measuring Total ROS in Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines