Selective and Ratiometric Fluorescent Trapping and Quantification of Protein Vicinal Dithiols and in Situ Dynamic Tracing in Living Cells

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• 作者：Chusen Huang ; Ti Jia ; Mengfang Tang ; Qin Yin ; Weiping Zhu ; Chao Zhang ; Yi Yang ; Nengqin Jia ; Yufang Xu ; Xuhong Qian
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：October 8, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：136
• 期：40
• 页码：14237-14244
• 全文大小：461K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Protein vicinal dithiols play fundamental roles in intracellular redox homeostasis due to their involvement in protein synthesis and function through the reversible vicinal dithiol oxidation to disulfide. To provide quantitative information about the global distribution and dynamic changes of protein vicinal dithiols in living cells, we have designed and synthesized a ratiometric fluorescent probe (VTAF) for trapping of vicinal dithiol-containing proteins (VDPs) in living cells. VTAF exhibits a ratiometric fluorescence signal upon single excitation, which enables self-calibration of the fluorescence signal and quantification of endogenous vicinal dithiols of VDPs. Its potential for in situ dynamic tracing of changes of protein vicinal dithiols under different cellular redox conditions was exemplified. VTAF facilitated the direct observation of subcellular distribution of endogenous VDPs via ratiometric fluorescence imaging and colocalization assay. And the results suggested that there are abundant VDPs in mitochondria. Moreover, some redox-sensitive VDPs are also present on cell surface which can respond to redox stimulus. This ratiometric fluorescence technique presents an important extension to previous fluorescence intensity-based probes for trapping and quantifying protein vicinal dithiols in living cells, as well as its visible dynamic tracing of VDPs.