Harnessing Se=N to develop novel fluorescent probes for visualizing the variation of endogenous hypobromous acid (HOBr) during the administration of immunotherapeutic agent

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Zhang ◽  
kaiqiang Liu ◽  
Jingwen Li ◽  
Yingying Xie ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
...  

In virtue of the formation of Se=N, ABT-Se and NDI-Se were developed to detect and visualize endogenous HOBr in live cells. Specifically, the upregulation of HOBr was monitored by NDI-Se...

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 3575
Author(s):  
Shenggang Wang ◽  
Yue Huang ◽  
Xiangming Guan

Thiols play vital and irreplaceable roles in the biological system. Abnormality of thiol levels has been linked with various diseases and biological disorders. Thiols are known to distribute unevenly and change dynamically in the biological system. Methods that can determine thiols’ concentration and distribution in live cells are in high demand. In the last two decades, fluorescent probes have emerged as a powerful tool for achieving that goal for the simplicity, high sensitivity, and capability of visualizing the analytes in live cells in a non-invasive way. They also enable the determination of intracellular distribution and dynamitic movement of thiols in the intact native environments. This review focuses on some of the major strategies/mechanisms being used for detecting GSH, Cys/Hcy, and other thiols in live cells via fluorescent probes, and how they are applied at the cellular and subcellular levels. The sensing mechanisms (for GSH and Cys/Hcy) and bio-applications of the probes are illustrated followed by a summary of probes for selectively detecting cellular and subcellular thiols.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breanna L. Zerfas ◽  
Rachel A. Coleman ◽  
Andres Salazar Chaparro ◽  
Nathaniel J. Macatangay ◽  
Darci Trader

<div> <div> <div> <p>The proteasome is an essential protein complex that, when dysregulated, can result in various diseases in eukaryotic cells. As such, understanding the enzymatic activity of the proteasome and what can alter it is crucial to elucidating its roles in these diseases. This can be done effectively by using activity-based fluorescent substrate probes, of which there are many commercially available that target the individual protease-like subunits in the 20S CP of the proteasome. Unfortunately, these probes have not displayed appropriate characteristics for their use in live cell-based assays. In the work presented here, we have developed a set of probes which have shown improved fluorescence properties and selectivity towards the proteasome compared to other cellular proteases. By including unnatural amino acids, we have found probes which can be utilized in various applications, including monitoring the effects of small molecule stimulators of the proteasome in live cells and comparing the relative proteasome activity across different cancer cell types. In future studies, we expect the fluorescent probes presented here will serve as tools to support the discovery and characterization of small molecule modulators of proteasome activity. </p> </div> </div> </div>


2020 ◽  
Vol 306 ◽  
pp. 127567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiemin Wang ◽  
Zhidong Teng ◽  
Ting Cao ◽  
Jing Qian ◽  
Lei Zheng ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qixin Chen ◽  
Hongbao Fang ◽  
Xintian Shao ◽  
Zhiqi Tian ◽  
Shanshan Geng ◽  
...  

AbstractMitochondria–lysosome interactions are essential for maintaining intracellular homeostasis. Although various fluorescent probes have been developed to visualize such interactions, they remain unable to label mitochondria and lysosomes simultaneously and dynamically track their interaction. Here, we introduce a cell-permeable, biocompatible, viscosity-responsive, small organic molecular probe, Coupa, to monitor the interaction of mitochondria and lysosomes in living cells. Through a functional fluorescence conversion, Coupa can simultaneously label mitochondria with blue fluorescence and lysosomes with red fluorescence, and the correlation between the red–blue fluorescence intensity indicates the progress of mitochondria–lysosome interplay during mitophagy. Moreover, because its fluorescence is sensitive to viscosity, Coupa allowed us to precisely localize sites of mitochondria–lysosome contact and reveal increases in local viscosity on mitochondria associated with mitochondria–lysosome contact. Thus, our probe represents an attractive tool for the localization and dynamic tracking of functional mitochondria–lysosome interactions in living cells.


2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (24) ◽  
pp. 12088-12099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Guang Dai ◽  
Xiao-Jiao Du ◽  
Qin-Hua Song

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (47) ◽  
pp. 17969-17977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyung Joong Kim ◽  
Cheol Ho Heo ◽  
Hwan Myung Kim

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