Drug screening kit for treating obesity and using method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicines, and particularly relates to a drug screening kit for treating obesity and a using method thereof.
Background
With the continuous improvement of living standard of people, obesity becomes an important factor seriously threatening public health in the 21 st century, and can cause various diseases, such as metabolic diseases, skin diseases and hypertension, increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, easily cause psychological disorders and cause troubles to daily life of people. At present, the bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment method for obesity, but has many limitations including irreversibility of surgery, perioperative risks including bleeding, anastomotic leakage, infection, internal hernia, insufficient nutrition, postprandial hypoglycemia, death and high financial cost, so that a drug screening kit for treating obesity is urgently needed to screen more effective drugs for treating obesity.
The caenorhabditis elegans culture conditions are simple, and bacteria (E.coli) can be eaten on agar plates or liquid culture media; the generation cycle is short, and is usually about 3 days; short life, usually around 3 weeks; the caenorhabditis elegans experimental population is easy to amplify and can be synchronized, and the defects of high price and time consumption of rat and mouse models can be avoided, so the caenorhabditis elegans is an ideal model for drug high-flux screening due to the advantages of short life cycle and easy realization of high flux.
Therefore, the invention provides a drug screening kit for treating obesity, which can screen drugs for treating obesity at high flux.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a drug screening kit for treating obesity, and drugs for treating obesity can be screened by using the kit.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for using the above drug screening kit for treating obesity.
The invention provides a drug screening kit for treating obesity, which is characterized by comprising the following reagents:
(1) caenorhabditis elegans N2;
(2) NGM medium containing 10mg/mL cholesterol;
(3)5mg/ml of Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid;
(4) nile red dye liquor.
The caenorhabditis elegans N2 is a synchronized nematode, and the nematode synchronizing step is as follows:
(1) flushing the caenorhabditis elegans on the flat plate by using M9 buffer solution, sucking the flushing solution into a centrifugal tube, centrifuging at 7000rpm of 5000-;
(2) adding lysis solution, and shaking on vortex instrument for 7min to break body of caenorhabditis elegans N2 to release egg;
(3) centrifuging at 7000rpm of 5000-:
(4) the buffer solution of M9 is washed twice, then 1ml of buffer solution of M9 is added, and the mixture is placed at the constant temperature of 20 ℃ for culturing for 48 hours, so as to obtain the synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2.
The preparation method of the M9 buffer solution (taking the volume of 400mL as an example) comprises the following steps: weighing NaCl 1.99g and Na2HPO42.38g,KH2PO41.19g, anhydrous MgSO40.048 g. After being completely dissolved in 400mL of distilled water, the mixture was sterilized by moist heat (121 ℃ C., 20min) and stored at room temperature.
The preparation method of the lysis solution comprises the following steps: suck 320. mu.L of 10% NaClO3The solution was mixed with 4.68mL of M9 buffer, and then mixed with 1M NaOH solution in equal volume, ready for use.
The NGM culture medium is 25ml, the Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid is 450 mul, and the Nile red staining solution is 1.8 mul.
The preparation method of the NGM culture medium (taking 500mL as an example) comprises the following steps: 1.52g NaCl, 1.36g peptone, 1.15gK2HPO4,8.52g KH2PO4After completely dissolving in 500mL of distilled water, 8.58g of agarose was added, shaken, and sterilized by moist heat (121 ℃ C., 20 min). After sterilization, when the temperature of the medium was reduced to 75 ℃ 500. mu.L of 1M MgSO was added4Solution of 500. mu.L CaCl at a concentration of 1M2The solution, 500. mu.L of 5mg/mL cholesterol solution, was shaken well and poured into a glass petri dish for coagulation.
The nile red dye solution is prepared from acetone, and the final concentration is 0.5 mg/mL.
Preferably, the rotation speed during centrifugation is 6000 rpm.
The invention also provides a use method of the drug screening kit for treating obesity, which comprises the following steps:
(1) screening the medicine for treating obesity by adopting a medicine screening kit for treating obesity, and setting a model control group and a medicine effect evaluation group;
(2) a pharmacodynamic evaluation group, adding 25ml of NGM culture medium containing the drug to be detected into a 90mm culture dish under aseptic condition, and waiting for solidification; uniformly coating an Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and a Nile red staining solution on an NGM culture medium, wherein the volume ratio of the Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid to the Nile red staining solution is 250:1, then adding 400 pieces of synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture in a constant temperature culture at 20 ℃ for 48h, and setting three parallels;
(3) in the model control group, 25ml of NGM culture medium containing sterile water or solvent which is equal to the drug solution to be detected is added into a 90mm culture dish under the aseptic condition, and the NGM culture medium is solidified for later use; uniformly coating an Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and a Nile red staining solution on an NGM culture medium, wherein the volume ratio of the Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid to the Nile red staining solution is 250:1, then adding 400 pieces of synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture in a constant temperature culture at 20 ℃ for 48 hours, establishing an obesity model as a model control group, and setting three parallels;
(4) post-treatment of caenorhabditis elegans N2: washing caenorhabditis elegans N2 in the model control group and the drug effect evaluation group respectively from a culture medium by using M9 buffer solution, collecting the caenorhabditis elegans N2 in a centrifuge tube, washing by using M9 buffer solution, removing supernatant, repeating for 3 times, adding 150 mu L M9 buffer solution again, decoloring for 2 hours at 20 ℃, sucking 150 mu LM9 buffer solution for washing after decoloring is completed, removing supernatant, repeating for 2 times, sucking 20 mu L of caenorhabditis elegans on a glass slide, sucking 20 mu L of 20mM NaN3Fixing;
(5) observing the dyeing result under a fluorescence microscope, taking a picture and recording, processing and analyzing experimental data by adopting statistical software, and if the fluorescence intensity of the efficacy evaluation group is lower than that of the model control group, proving that the drug to be detected has the activity of treating obesity; if the fluorescence intensity of the efficacy evaluation group is not significantly different from that of the model control group, the drug to be tested is proved to have no activity of treating obesity; thus, the activity of the test drug for treating obesity is evaluated.
Preferably, the Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and the Nile red staining liquid are respectively 450 mu L and 1.8 mu L.
Preferably, the number of caenorhabditis elegans N2 nematodes added to the NGM medium is 500.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the caenorhabditis elegans model-based drug screening kit for treating obesity provided by the invention is simple in use method, high in accuracy and high in screening speed, and can be widely used for screening drugs for treating obesity.
Specific examples are provided below to realize the screening kit for obesity treating drugs according to the present invention, but are not limited to these examples.
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FIG. 1 evaluation of the efficacy of L-carnitine for the treatment of obesity Using a drug screening kit for the treatment of obesity
Detailed Description
Experimental biology:
caenorhabditis elegans N2, Caenorhabditis elegans N2 is a wild-type strain purchased from The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC).
Coli OP50, uracil auxotroph, as standard food for culture of c.
EXAMPLE 1 Assembly of the kit
A screening kit for drugs for treating obesity comprises the following materials:
(1) caenorhabditis elegans N2;
(2) NGM medium containing 10mg/mL cholesterol;
(3)5mg/ml of Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid;
(4) nile red dye liquor.
The culture method of the Escherichia coli OP50 comprises the following steps: pouring the LB solid culture medium sterilized by high temperature and moist heat into a glass culture dish with the diameter of 90mm, cooling and solidifying the LB solid culture medium, dipping a small amount of bacterial liquid by using an inoculating ring, separating bacterial colonies by using a plate marking method, then putting the bacterial colonies into a constant temperature incubator at 37 ℃ for culturing overnight to obtain single bacterial colonies of Escherichia coli OP50, and storing the single bacterial colonies at 4 ℃ for later use.
The preparation method of the LB solid medium (taking 200mL as an example) comprises the following steps: analytically pure NaCl and peptone each 2.00g and yeast powder 1.00g are weighed respectively, and after being completely dissolved in 200mL of distilled water, agar 3.42g is added. Sterilizing with damp heat (121 deg.C, 20min) for use.
The nile red dye solution is prepared from acetone, and the final concentration is 0.5 mg/mL.
The caenorhabditis elegans N2 is a synchronized nematode, and the nematode synchronizing step is as follows:
(1) flushing down the caenorhabditis elegans on the plate by using M9 buffer solution, sucking the flushing solution into a centrifuge tube, centrifuging at 7000rpm of 5000-;
(2) adding lysis solution, and shaking on vortex instrument for 7min to break the body of caenorhabditis elegans and release ovum;
(3) centrifuging at 7000rpm of 5000-:
(4) the buffer solution of M9 was washed twice, 1ml of M9 buffer solution was added, and the mixture was incubated at 20 ℃ for 48 hours to obtain the synchronized C.elegans N2.
Preferably, the rotation speed during centrifugation is 6000 rpm.
Example 2 kit Effect verification
The L-carnitine is an amino acid analog for promoting fat to be converted into energy and is widely applied to the treatment of obesity, so that the effect of the kit is verified by using the L-carnitine as a medicine to be detected.
1 setting drug efficacy evaluation group
Under aseptic condition, adding 25ml of NGM culture medium containing 25 mul of L-carnitine liquid medicine into a 90mm culture dish, and waiting for solidification; mixing 450 mu l of escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and 1.8 mu l of Nile red staining solution to ensure that the final concentration of Nile red is 0.002mg/ml, uniformly coating the mixed solution on an NGM culture medium, adding 500 synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture at the constant temperature of 20 ℃ for culturing for 48 hours, and setting three parallel strains;
2 setting model control group
Under aseptic condition, adding 25ml of NGM culture medium containing aseptic water or solvent with the same quantity of L-carnitine solution into a 90mm culture dish, and solidifying for later use; mixing 450 mu l of escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and 1.8 mu l of Nile red staining solution to ensure that the final concentration of Nile red is 0.002mg/ml, uniformly coating the mixed solution on an NGM culture medium, adding 500 synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture at the constant temperature of 20 ℃ for culturing for 48 hours, and setting three parallel strains;
3 post-treatment of C.elegans N2
Separating with M9 buffer solutionWashing caenorhabditis elegans N2 in the model control group and the drug effect evaluation group from the culture medium, collecting the washed caenorhabditis elegans N2 in a centrifuge tube, washing the centrifuge tube with M9 buffer solution, removing the supernatant, repeating the washing for 3 times, adding 150 mu l M9 buffer solution again, decoloring the mixture at 20 ℃ for 2 hours, and removing the supernatant; additional 150 μ L M9 buffer wash was added, the supernatant removed and repeated 2 times, then 20 μ L of nematodes pipetted onto the slide and 20 μ L of 20mM NaN added3Fixing for observing dyeing results;
4 evaluation of Effect
The dyeing result is observed under a fluorescence microscope, the photographing record is carried out, statistical software is adopted to process and analyze experimental data, the result is shown in figure 1, compared with a model control group, the L-carnitine of the drug group to be detected obviously reduces the fat accumulation in the caenorhabditis elegans N2 strain, the L-carnitine is shown to have the effect of treating obesity, and the detection result of the kit is proved to be accurate and effective.
The preparation method of the L-carnitine liquid medicine comprises the following steps: weighing 16.12mg of L-carnitine, adding 1mL of distilled water, dissolving into 100mM of mother solution, keeping out of the sun, and storing at 2-8 ℃ for later use.
The preparation method of the drug-containing culture medium comprises the following steps: accurately sucking the solution of the drug to be tested, adding the solution into sterilized NGM (Next Generation broadcasting) which is cooled to about 75 ℃ according to a certain dilution ratio under the aseptic condition, fully shaking up, pouring the solution into a sterilized glass culture dish, uniformly coating 450 mu L of Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial solution after the culture medium is cooled and solidified, placing the solution at the constant temperature of 37 ℃ for culturing for 12 hours, and storing the solution at 15 ℃ for later use.
EXAMPLE 3 use of the kit
(1) Screening the medicine for treating obesity by adopting a medicine screening kit for treating obesity, and setting a model control group and a medicine effect evaluation group;
(2) setting a drug effect evaluation group: under the aseptic condition, 25ml of NGM culture medium of the liquid medicine to be detected is added into a 90mm culture dish, and the liquid medicine to be detected is solidified for later use; mixing 450 mu l of Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and 1.8 mu l of Nile red staining solution to ensure that the final concentration of Nile red is 0.002mg/ml, uniformly coating the mixed solution on an NGM culture medium, adding 400 and 600 synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture at the constant temperature of 20 ℃ for culturing for 48 hours, and setting three parallels;
(3) setting a model comparison group: under aseptic condition, adding 25ml of NGM culture medium containing sterile water or solvent with the same amount as the liquid medicine to be detected into a 90mm culture dish, and solidifying for later use; mixing 450 mu l of Escherichia coli OP50 bacterial liquid and 1.8 mu l of Nile red staining solution to ensure that the final concentration of Nile red is 0.002mg/ml, uniformly coating the mixed solution on an NGM culture medium, adding 400 and 600 synchronized caenorhabditis elegans N2 into the NGM culture medium, placing the mixture at the constant temperature of 20 ℃ for culturing for 48 hours, establishing an obesity model as a model control group, and setting three parallels;
(4) post-treatment of caenorhabditis elegans N2: washing caenorhabditis elegans N2 in the model control group and the drug effect evaluation group from the culture medium by using M9 buffer solution, collecting the washed caenorhabditis elegans N2 in a centrifuge tube, washing the washed caenorhabditis elegans N2 in M9 buffer solution, removing supernatant, repeating the washing for 3 times, adding 150 mu l M9 buffer solution again, decoloring the mixture at 20 ℃ for 2 hours, and removing the supernatant; additional 150 μ L M9 buffer wash was added, the supernatant removed and repeated 2 times, then 20 μ L of nematodes pipetted onto the slide and 20 μ L of 20mM NaN added3Fixing;
(5) observing the dyeing result under a fluorescence microscope, taking a picture and recording, processing and analyzing experimental data by adopting statistical software, and if the fluorescence intensity of the efficacy evaluation group is lower than that of the model control group, proving that the drug to be detected has the activity of treating obesity; if the active oxygen level of the efficacy evaluation group has no significant difference with the model control group, the drug to be tested is proved to have no activity of treating obesity; thus, the activity of the test drug for treating obesity is evaluated.
Preferably, the number of caenorhabditis elegans N2 nematodes added to the NGM medium is 500.
The foregoing is a more detailed description of the invention in connection with specific preferred embodiments and it is not intended that the invention be limited to these specific details. For those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains, several simple deductions or substitutions can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, and all shall be considered as belonging to the protection scope of the invention.