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Selective fluorescent probes for live-cell monitoring of sulphide

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  • Yong Qian

    (The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
    State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University)

  • Jason Karpus

    (The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.)

  • Omer Kabil

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

  • Shu-Yu Zhang

    (The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
    Lanzhou University)

  • Hai-Liang Zhu

    (State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University)

  • Ruma Banerjee

    (University of Michigan Medical School)

  • Jing Zhao

    (State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University)

  • Chuan He

    (The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.)

Abstract

Aqueous sulphides, including hydrogen sulphide, have important roles in biological signalling and metabolic processes. Here we develop a selective sulphide-trapping strategy involving sulphide addition to an aldehyde; the resulting hemithioacetal undergoes a Michael addition with an adjacent unsaturated acrylate ester to form a thioacetal at neutral pH in aqueous solution. Employing this new strategy, two sulphide-selective fluorescent probes, SFP-1 and SFP-2, were synthesized on the basis of two different fluorophore templates. These probes exhibit an excellent fluorescence increase and an emission maximum shift (SFP-1) in response to Na2S and H2S in a high thiol background as found under physiological conditions. We show the utility of the probes for the selective detection of sulphides, and the capacity of our probes to monitor enzymatic H2S biogenesis and image free sulphide in living cells.

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  • Yong Qian & Jason Karpus & Omer Kabil & Shu-Yu Zhang & Hai-Liang Zhu & Ruma Banerjee & Jing Zhao & Chuan He, 2011. "Selective fluorescent probes for live-cell monitoring of sulphide," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 2(1), pages 1-7, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:2:y:2011:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1506
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1506
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