@article{MeyerLopezSerranoMitzeetal.2017, author = {Meyer, S{\"o}ren and Lopez-Serrano, Aniceto and Mitze, Hanna and Jakubowski, Norbert and Schwerdtle, Tanja}, title = {Single-cell analysis by ICP-MS/MS as a fast tool for cellular bioavailability studies of arsenite}, series = {Metallomics : integrated biometal science}, volume = {10}, journal = {Metallomics : integrated biometal science}, number = {1}, publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1756-5901}, doi = {10.1039/c7mt00285h}, pages = {73 -- 76}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Single-cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SC-ICP-MS) has become a powerful and fast tool to evaluate the elemental composition at a single-cell level. In this study, the cellular bioavailability of arsenite (incubation of 25 and 50 mu M for 0-48 h) has been successfully assessed by SC-ICP-MS/MS for the first time directly after re-suspending the cells in water. This procedure avoids the normally arising cell membrane permeabilization caused by cell fixation methods (e.g. methanol fixation). The reliability and feasibility of this SC-ICP-MS/MS approach with a limit of detection of 0.35 fg per cell was validated by conventional bulk ICP-MS/MS analysis after cell digestion and parallel measurement of sulfur and phosphorus.}, language = {en} }