Regulating glutathione-responsiveness of naphthalimide-based fluorescent probes by an oxidation strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (30) ◽  
pp. 5517-5523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guotao Liu ◽  
Weijie Chen ◽  
Zhiqiang Xu ◽  
Fengying Ye ◽  
Yingle Pan ◽  
...  

Naphthalimide-based probes with the different oxidation state of sulphur atom can be utilized to regulate the responsiveness of probes towards glutathione.

Author(s):  
Ann Cleary

Microinjection of fluorescent probes into living plant cells reveals new aspects of cell structure and function. Microtubules and actin filaments are dynamic components of the cytoskeleton and are involved in cell growth, division and intracellular transport. To date, cytoskeletal probes used in microinjection studies have included rhodamine-phalloidin for labelling actin filaments and fluorescently labelled animal tubulin for incorporation into microtubules. From a recent study of Tradescantia stamen hair cells it appears that actin may have a role in defining the plane of cell division. Unlike microtubules, actin is present in the cell cortex and delimits the division site throughout mitosis. Herein, I shall describe actin, its arrangement and putative role in cell plate placement, in another material, living cells of Tradescantia leaf epidermis.The epidermis is peeled from the abaxial surface of young leaves usually without disruption to cytoplasmic streaming or cell division. The peel is stuck to the base of a well slide using 0.1% polyethylenimine and bathed in a solution of 1% mannitol +/− 1 mM probenecid.


Author(s):  
Y.G. Wang ◽  
H.Q. Ye ◽  
K.H. Kuo

A synthetic compound Ca4Al6SO16 (usually abbreviated as C4A3S) obtained by mixing CaO, A12O3 and CaSO4 powders and finally sintered at 1380°C is a cement with excellent hydraulicity and greatly expanding in application. It is hydralysed rapidly by water to form predominatly calcium aluminate hydrates and therefore unlikly to occur naturally, although structurally it may be regarded as an end member of the sodalite-hauynite series of naturally occuring minerals. C4A3S has a cubic structure with ao=9.19Å and space group . Fig.1 is the projection viewed down axis, in which there are two sets of 8C position in , namely CaI and CaII, occupied by the calcium atoms, respectively, and the ratio of occupations in these two sets of positions is about 3:1. This suggests that the calcium atoms can freely occupy these sites in various degrees and usually they almost locates on the CaI positions. A through-focus series of the lattice images were found in good agreement with the simulated ones. Each bright spot in the image taken at Scherzer defocus correspounds to a colunm of sulphur atom in the structural model (Fig.1).


Author(s):  
Y.D. Yu ◽  
R. Guan ◽  
K.H. Kuo ◽  
H. Hashimoto

We have indicated that the lighter atoms such as oxygen in Cu2O can be observed at the specimen with optimal thicknesses based on the dynamic effect of electron diffraction(1). This rule in principle should hold good for the imaging of other lighter atoms such as sulphur atom in Cu2S. However, this point of view needs further experimentally confirm because up to now only oxygen atoms have been observed in Cu2O and a series of new suboxides of copper and nickel (2). In addition, the sulphur atom is much heavier than oxygen one though is still lighter than copper atom. In the present report we provide such a confirmation.The crystallites of Cu2S shown in Fig.l were obtained by sulfurizing at 300°C of the copper thin film which was sealed in a glass tube with mg sulphur left on the tube wall in a vacuum of about 10-2 Pa. The energy dispersive spectrocscopy analysis indicated that they are the sulfides and the electron diffraction analysis indicated they have anti-fluorite structure.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1012-1013
Author(s):  
Uyen Tram ◽  
William Sullivan

Embryonic development is a dynamic event and is best studied in live animals in real time. Much of our knowledge of the early events of embryogenesis, however, comes from immunofluourescent analysis of fixed embryos. While these studies provide an enormous amount of information about the organization of different structures during development, they can give only a static glimpse of a very dynamic event. More recently real-time fluorescent studies of living embryos have become much more routine and have given new insights to how different structures and organelles (chromosomes, centrosomes, cytoskeleton, etc.) are coordinately regulated. This is in large part due to the development of commercially available fluorescent probes, GFP technology, and newly developed sensitive fluorescent microscopes. For example, live confocal fluorescent analysis proved essential in determining the primary defect in mutations that disrupt early nuclear divisions in Drosophila melanogaster. For organisms in which GPF transgenics is not available, fluorescent probes that label DNA, microtubules, and actin are available for microinjection.


2003 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ortega ◽  
B. Fayard ◽  
M. Salomé ◽  
G. Devès ◽  
J. Susini

1967 ◽  
Vol 17 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gumińska ◽  
M Eckstein ◽  
Barbara Stachurska ◽  
J Sulko

SummaryThe anticoagulant activity of 3.3’-(benzylidene)-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin derivatives has been estimated by one step Quick’s method. The derivatives contained the following groups in the para position of benzylidene residue: NCS- (I), CH3-S- (II), CH3-SO-(III), CH3-S02- (IV), C2H5-S- (V), C2H5-SO- (VI), C2H5-S02- (VII). All these compounds were much more active than 3.3’-(benzylidene)-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin itself.Compounds possessing the ethyl chain at the sulphur atom (V, VI, VII) were more active than methyl homologues (II, III, IV). Comparison of the activity of the series of thio-, sulphoxy-, and sulphonyl-derivatives showed that among methyl- and ethyl-derivatives those with the sulphoxy grouping (III, VI) displayed the greatest anticoagulant activity. The action of sulphonyl (IV, VII) and thio-derivatives (II, V) was weaker and shortest. The derivative with the NCS-group (I) possessed a relatively the lowest activity among the investigated compounds. 3.3’-(p-Ethylsulphoxybenzyl-idene)-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin (VI), with distinct biological activity reached about ½ of dicoumarol activity.


2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 1586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasun Mukherjee ◽  
Mintu Halder ◽  
Mark S. Hargrove ◽  
Jacob W. Petrich

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Gnägi ◽  
Severin Vital Martz ◽  
Daniel Meyer ◽  
Robin Marc Schärer ◽  
Philippe Renaud

<div><div><div><div><p>A very concise total synthesis of (+)-brefeldin C starting from 2-furanylcyclopentene is described. This approach is based on an unprecedented enantioselective radical hydroalkynylation process to introduce the two cyclopentane stereocenters in a single step. The use of a furan substituent allows to achieve a high trans diastereoselectivity during the radical process and it contains the four carbon atoms C1–C4 of the natural product in an oxidation state closely related to the one of the target molecule. The eight-step synthesis require six product purifications and it provides (+)-brefeldin C in 18% overall yield.</p></div></div></div></div>


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