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Gonzalez-Garcia MC, Salto-Giron C, Herrero-Foncubierta P, Peña-Ruiz T, Giron-Gonzalez MD, Salto-Gonzalez R, Perez-Lara A, Navarro A, Garcia-Fernandez E, Orte A. Dynamic Excimer (DYNEX) Imaging of Lipid Droplets. ACS Sens 2021; 6:3632-3639. [PMID: 34498459 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c01206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Unraveling cellular physiological processes via luminescent probes that target specific cellular microenvironments is quite challenging due to the uneven distribution of probes. Herein, we designed a new dynamic excimer (DYNEX) imaging method that involves the sensitive detection of nanosecond-scale dynamic molecular contacts of a fluorescent acridone derivative and reveals the cell microenvironment polarity. Using our method, we specifically tracked cell lipid droplets in fibroblast colon carcinoma cells. These organelles play a central role in metabolic pathways, acting as energy reservoirs in regulatory processes. DYNEX imaging provides the inner polarity of cell lipid droplets, which can be related to lipid contents and metabolic dysfunctions. This new methodology will inspire development of novel multidimensional fluorescent sensors that are able to provide target-specific and orthogonal information at the nanosecond scale.
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Affiliation(s)
- M. Carmen Gonzalez-Garcia
- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Departamento de Quimica Organica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, 23071 Jaén, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular II, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular II, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Department of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, 23071 Jaén, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Ripoll C, Herrero-Foncubierta P, Puente-Muñoz V, Gonzalez-Garcia MC, Miguel D, Resa S, Paredes JM, Ruedas-Rama MJ, Garcia-Fernandez E, Roldan M, Rocha S, De Keersmaecker H, Hofkens J, Martin M, Cuerva JM, Orte A. Chimeric Drug Design with a Noncharged Carrier for Mitochondrial Delivery. Pharmaceutics 2021; 13:254. [PMID: 33673228 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13020254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2020] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Recently, it was proposed that the thiophene ring is capable of promoting mitochondrial accumulation when linked to fluorescent markers. As a noncharged group, thiophene presents several advantages from a synthetic point of view, making it easier to incorporate such a side moiety into different molecules. Herein, we confirm the general applicability of the thiophene group as a mitochondrial carrier for drugs and fluorescent markers based on a new concept of nonprotonable, noncharged transporter. We implemented this concept in a medicinal chemistry application by developing an antitumor, metabolic chimeric drug based on the pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK) inhibitor dichloroacetate (DCA). The promising features of the thiophene moiety as a noncharged carrier for targeting mitochondria may represent a starting point for the design of new metabolism-targeting drugs.
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Cui X, Zhao Y, Li Z, Meng Q, Zhang C. Proton Transfer and Nitro Rotation Tuned Photoisomerization of Artificial Base Pair-ZP. Front Chem 2020; 8:605117. [PMID: 33330400 PMCID: PMC7734142 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.605117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recently, the successful incorporation of artificial base pairs in genetics has made a significant progress in synthetic biology. The present work reports the proton transfer and photoisomerization of unnatural base pair ZP, which is synthesized from the pyrimidine analog 6-amino-5-nitro-3-(1-β-D-2'-deoxyribo-furanosyl)-2 (1H)-pyridone (Z) and paired with its Watson-Crick complement, the purine analog 2-amino-8-(1'-β-D-2'- deoxyribofuranosyl)-imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)-one (P). To explain the mechanism of proton transfer process, we constructed the relaxed potential energy surfaces (PESs) linking the different tautomers in both gas phase and solution. Our results show that the double proton transfer in the gas phase occurs in a concerted way both in S0 and S1 states, while the stepwise mechanism becomes more favorable in solution. The solvent effect can promote the single proton transfer, which undergoes a lower energy barrier in S1 state due to the strengthened hydrogen bond. In contrast to the excited state ultrafast deactivation process of the natural bases, there is no conical intersection between S0 and S1 states along the proton transfer coordinate to activate the decay mechanism in ZP. Of particular relevance to the photophysical properties, charge-transfer character is obviously related to the nitro rotation in S1 state. We characterized the molecular vibration effect on the electronic properties, which reveals the electronic excitation can be tuned by the rotation-induced structural distortion accompanied with the electron localization on nitro group.
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- Xixi Cui
- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Gonzalez-Garcia MC, Herrero-Foncubierta P, Garcia-Fernandez E, Orte A. Building Accurate Intracellular Polarity Maps through Multiparametric Microscopy. Methods Protoc 2020; 3:mps3040078. [PMID: 33187290 PMCID: PMC7720129 DOI: 10.3390/mps3040078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The precise knowledge of intracellular polarity, a physiological parameter that involves complex and intertwined intracellular mechanisms, may be relevant in the study of important diseases like cancer or Alzheimer’s. In this technical note, we illustrate our recently developed, accurate method for obtaining intracellular polarity maps employing potent fluorescence microscopy techniques. Our method is based on the selection of appropriate luminescent probes, in which several emission properties vary with microenvironment polarity, specifically spectral shifts and luminescence lifetime. A multilinear calibration is performed, correlating polarity vs. spectral shift vs. luminescence lifetime, to generate a powerful and error-free 3D space for reliable interpolation of microscopy data. Multidimensional luminescence microscopy is then used to obtain simultaneously spectral shift and luminescence lifetime images, which are then interpolated in the 3D calibration space, resulting in accurate, quantitative polarity maps.
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Affiliation(s)
- M. Carmen Gonzalez-Garcia
- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Facultad de Farmacia, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (M.C.G.-G.); (P.H.-F.); (E.G.-F.)
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Facultad de Farmacia, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (M.C.G.-G.); (P.H.-F.); (E.G.-F.)
- Departamento de Quimica Organica, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Facultad de Farmacia, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (M.C.G.-G.); (P.H.-F.); (E.G.-F.)
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- Departamento de Fisicoquimica, Facultad de Farmacia, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (M.C.G.-G.); (P.H.-F.); (E.G.-F.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-958243825
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Chu JH, Su ZH, Yen KW, Chien HI. Investigation of Stepwise and Stoichiometric Palladium-Mediated ortho-C–H Bond Arylation and Alkylation of 9(10 H)-Acridinone. Organometallics 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Jean-Ho Chu
- Department of Applied Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 95092, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 95092, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 95092, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Science, National Taitung University, Taitung 95092, Taiwan
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