Hydropropidine: A novel, cell-impermeant fluorogenic probe for detecting extracellular superoxide
作者:Radoslaw Michalski、Jacek Zielonka、Micael Hardy、Joy Joseph、Balaraman Kalyanaraman
DOI:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.09.018
日期:2013.1
Here we report the synthesis and characterization of a membrane-impermeant fluorogenic probe, hydropropidine (HPr+), the reduction product of propidium iodide, for detecting extracellular superoxide (O-2(center dot-)). HPr+ is a positively charged water-soluble analog of hydroethidine (HE), a fluorogenic probe commonly used for monitoring intracellular O-2(center dot-). We hypothesized that the presence of a highly localized positive charge on the nitrogen atom would impede cellular uptake of HPr+ and allow for exclusive detection of extracellular O-2(center dot-). Our results indicate that O-2(center dot-) reacts with HPr+ (k=1.2 x 10(4) M-1 s(-1)) to form exclusively 2-hydroxypropidium (2-OH-Pr2+) in cell-free and cell-based systems. This reaction is analogous to the reaction between HE and O-2(center dot-) (Zhao et al., Free Radic. Biol. Med. 34:1359-1368; 2003). During the course of this investigation, we also reassessed the rate constants for the reactions of O-2(center dot-) with HE and its mitochondria targeted analog (Mito-HE or MitoSOX Red) and addressed the discrepancies between the present values and those reported previously by us. Our results indicate that the rate constant between O-2(center dot-) and HPr+ is slightly higher than that of HE and O-2(center dot-) and is closer to that of Mito-HE and O-2(center dot-). Similar to HE, HPr+ undergoes oxidation in the presence of various oxidants (peroxynitrite-derived radicals, Fenton's reagent, and ferricytochrome c) forming the corresponding propidium dication (Pr2+) and the dimeric products (e.g., Pr2+-Pr2+). In contrast to HE, there was very little intracellular uptake of HPr+. We conclude that HPr+ is a useful probe for detecting O-2(center dot-) and other one-electron oxidizing species in an extracellular milieu. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc.