PMID- 32492957 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200928 IS - 2076-3921 (Print) IS - 2076-3921 (Electronic) IS - 2076-3921 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 6 DP - 2020 Jun 1 TI - AOP1, a New Live Cell Assay for the Direct and Quantitative Measure of Intracellular Antioxidant Effects. LID - 10.3390/antiox9060471 [doi] LID - 471 AB - Taking advantage of Light Up Cell System (LUCS) technology, which allows for fine monitoring of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production inside live cells, a new assay called Anti Oxidant Power 1 (AOP1) was developed to specifically measure ROS and/or free-radical scavenging effects inside living cells. This method is quantitative and EC(50)s obtained from AOP1 dose-response experiments were determined in order to classify the intracellular antioxidant efficacy of 15 well known antioxidant compounds with different hydrophilic properties. Six of them (epigallocatechin gallate, quercetin, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), ethoxyquin, resveratrol) gave EC(50)s in the range of 7-64 muM, four (Trolox, catechin, epicatechin, EUK134) in the range of 0.14 to 1 mM, and 5 (sulforaphane, astaxanthin, alpha- and gamma-tocopherols, vitamin E acetate) showed only partial or no effect. Interestingly, effects with measurable EC(50)s were observed for compounds with hydrophilic properties (LogP /= 10.3) had partial or no effect. Sulforaphane, a hydrophilic but strict Keap1/Nrf2 pathway enhancer, did not show any effect either. Importantly, AOP1 assay captures both antioxidant and prooxidant effects. Taken together, these results led us to the conclusion that AOP1 assay measures antioxidant effect of compounds that selectively enter the cell, and act as free radical scavengers in the cytosol and/or nucleus level. FAU - Gironde, Camille AU - Gironde C AD - AOP/MH2F-LAAS/CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 54200, 31031 Toulouse, France. FAU - Rigal, Mylene AU - Rigal M AD - AOP/MH2F-LAAS/CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 54200, 31031 Toulouse, France. FAU - Dufour, Cecile AU - Dufour C AD - AOP/MH2F-LAAS/CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 54200, 31031 Toulouse, France. FAU - Furger, Christophe AU - Furger C AD - AOP/MH2F-LAAS/CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 54200, 31031 Toulouse, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200601 PL - Switzerland TA - Antioxidants (Basel) JT - Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101668981 PMC - PMC7346189 OTO - NOTNLM OT - antioxidant assay OT - cellular antioxidant effect OT - free radicals OT - live cell assay OT - radical scavenging OT - reactive oxygen species (ROS) COIS- Dr Christophe Furger declares competing financial interest due to patent ownership on LUCS method. Authors are employees of Anti Oxidant Power - AOP, the start-up company which operates the patent. EDAT- 2020/06/05 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/05 06:01 PMCR- 2020/06/01 CRDT- 2020/06/05 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/05/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/05/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/06/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/06/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/05 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - antiox9060471 [pii] AID - antioxidants-09-00471 [pii] AID - 10.3390/antiox9060471 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Antioxidants (Basel). 2020 Jun 1;9(6):471. doi: 10.3390/antiox9060471.