Amphiphilic BODIPY derivatives: the solvophobic effect on their photophysical properties and bioimaging in living cells

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (41) ◽  
pp. 8581-8587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Yang ◽  
Ya-Jian Ji ◽  
Jia-Fu Yin ◽  
Yongquan Wu ◽  
Haiming Fan ◽  
...  
The Analyst ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhupendra Kumar Dwivedi ◽  
Roop Shikha Singh ◽  
Afsar Ali ◽  
Vinay Sharma ◽  
Shaikh M. Mobin ◽  
...  

Piperazine appended naphthalimide-BODIPYs (NPB1–NPB4) exhibiting solvatochromism, aggregation-induced emission, and high selectivity towards lysosomal pH in living cells have been described.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (40) ◽  
pp. 9519-9532 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.-H. Nguyen ◽  
N. Bogliotti ◽  
R. Chennoufi ◽  
E. Henry ◽  
P. Tauc ◽  
...  

Synthesis, photophysical properties, binding affinity and two-photon fluorescence imaging in living cells of photoactivable NADPH mimics targeting the nitric oxide synthases NADPH binding site are reported.


Author(s):  
R. Y. Tsien ◽  
A. Minta ◽  
M. Poenie ◽  
J.P.Y. Kao ◽  
A. Harootunian

Recent technical advances now enable the continuous imaging of important ionic signals inside individual living cells with micron spatial resolution and subsecond time resolution. This methodology relies on the molecular engineering of indicator dyes whose fluorescence is strong and highly sensitive to ions such as Ca2+, H+, or Na+, or Mg2+. The Ca2+ indicators, exemplified by fura-2 and indo-1, derive their high affinity (Kd near 200 nM) and selectivity for Ca2+ to a versatile tetracarboxylate binding site3 modeled on and isosteric with the well known chelator EGTA. The most commonly used pH indicators are fluorescein dyes (such as BCECF) modified to adjust their pKa's and improve their retention inside cells. Na+ indicators are crown ethers with cavity sizes chosen to select Na+ over K+: Mg2+ indicators use tricarboxylate binding sites truncated from those of the Ca2+ chelators, resulting in a more compact arrangement of carboxylates to suit the smaller ion.


Author(s):  
K. Jacobson ◽  
A. Ishihara ◽  
B. Holifield ◽  
F. Zhang

Our laboratory is concerned with understanding the dynamic structure of the plasma membrane with particular reference to the movement of membrane constituents during cell locomotion. In addition to the standard tools of molecular cell biology, we employ both fluorescence recovery after photo- bleaching (FRAP) and digitized fluorescence microscopy (DFM) to investigate individual cells. FRAP allows the measurement of translational mobility of membrane and cytoplasmic molecules in small regions of single, living cells. DFM is really a new form of light microscopy in that the distribution of individual classes of ions, molecules, and macromolecules can be followed in single, living cells. By employing fluorescent antibodies to defined antigens or fluorescent analogs of cellular constituents as well as ultrasensitive, electronic image detectors and video image averaging to improve signal to noise, fluorescent images of living cells can be acquired over an extended period without significant fading and loss of cell viability.


Author(s):  
D. L. Taylor

Cells function through the complex temporal and spatial interplay of ions, metabolites, macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies. Biochemical approaches allow the investigator to define the components and the solution chemical reactions that might be involved in cellular functions. Static structural methods can yield information concerning the 2- and 3-D organization of known and unknown cellular constituents. Genetic and molecular techniques are powerful approaches that can alter specific functions through the manipulation of gene products and thus identify necessary components and sequences of molecular events. However, full knowledge of the mechanism of particular cell functions will require direct measurement of the interplay of cellular constituents. Therefore, there has been a need to develop methods that can yield chemical and molecular information in time and space in living cells, while allowing the integration of information from biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches at the cellular level.


Author(s):  
Shinya Inoué

This paper reports progress of our effort to rapidly capture, and display in time-lapsed mode, the 3-dimensional dynamic architecture of active living cells and developing embryos at the highest resolution of the light microscope. Our approach entails: (A) real-time video tape recording of through-focal, ultrathin optical sections of live cells at the highest resolution of the light microscope; (B) repeat of A at time-lapsed intervals; (C) once each time-lapsed interval, an image at home focus is recorded onto Optical Disk Memory Recorder (OMDR); (D) periods of interest are selected using the OMDR and video tape records; (E) selected stacks of optical sections are converted into plane projections representing different view angles (±4 degrees for stereo view, additional angles when revolving stereos are desired); (F) analysis using A - D.


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