Calcium Rubies: A Family of Red-Emitting Functionalizable Indicators Suitable for Two-Photon Ca2+ Imaging
摘要:
We designed Calcium Rubies, a family of functionalizable BAPTA-based red-fluorescent calcium (Ca2+) indicators as new tools for biological Ca2+ imaging. The specificity of this Ca2+-indicator family is its side arm, attached on the ethylene glycol bridge that allows coupling the indicator to various groups while leaving open the possibility of aromatic substitutions on the BAPTA core for tuning the Ca2+-binding affinity. Using this possibility we now synthesize and characterize three different CaRubies with affinities between 3 and 22 mu M. Their long excitation and emission wavelengths (peaks at 586/604 nm) allow their use in otherwise challenging multicolor experiments, e.g., when combining Ca2+ uncaging or optogenetic stimulation with Ca2+ imaging in cells expressing fluorescent proteins. We illustrate this capacity by the detection of Ca2+ transients evoked by blue light in cultured astrocytes expressing CatCh, a light-sensitive Ca2+-translocating channelrhodopsin linked to yellow fluorescent protein. Using time-correlated single-photon counting, we measured fluorescence lifetimes for all CaRubies and demonstrate a 10-fold increase in the average lifetime upon Ca2+ chelation. Since only the fluorescence quantum yield but not the absorbance of the CaRubies is Ca2+-dependent, calibrated two-photon fluorescence excitation measurements of absolute Ca2+ concentrations are feasible.
Analogs of the cyclic hydroxamic acid 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one (DIMBOA): decomposition to benzoxazolinones and reaction with .beta.-mercaptoethanol
作者:Jeffrey Atkinson、Peter Morand、John T. Arnason、Hermann M. Niemeyer、Hector R. Bravo
DOI:10.1021/jo00005a025
日期:1991.3
Analogues of the aglucones of naturally occurring cyclic hydroxamic acids (2,4-dihydroxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-ones) from Gramineae (Poaceae) have been synthesized by the reductive cyclization of the ring-substituted methyl alpha-(o-nitrophenoxy)-alpha-methoxyacetates, followed by demethylation of the C-2 methoxy group with BBr3 or BCl3 to reveal the 2-hydroxy group. A structure-activity series was produced by varying the substituent at C-7 on the aromatic ring [R = MeO (1), t-Bu (6), Me (7), H (8), Cl (9), F (10), CO2Me (11a)]. The pK(a) values for the hydroxamic acid and the phenol moieties were determined for each member of the C-7 series. They correlated well with sigma in a linear free energy relationship (LFER) yielding values of rho = 0.71 (with sigma-p) for pK(a1) (the hydroxamic acid) and rho = 1.6 (with sigma-m) for pK(a2) (the phenol). A LFER also existed between the rate constants for the unimolecular decomposition of these hydroxamic acids to benzoxazolinones and sigma+ (rho = 1.1). The rates of hydroxamic acid reduction to lactams by beta-mercaptoethanol were also investigated. It was found that only compounds with electron-rich aromatic rings and specifically an oxa functionality para to the hydroxamic acid nitrogen atom (compounds 1 and 3-5) had measurable rates of reduction. H-1 NMR spectra recorded during this reaction in D2O buffers (pD9), however, showed that compounds 1, 2, 6-9 (the only ones investigated) formed a hemithioacetal at C-2 even though only 1 has a measurable rate of reduction by the same thiol. The remarkable rate enhancement provided by an oxa functionality suggests that reduction occurs by direct attack of thiolate on the hydroxamic nitrogen of a resonance-stabilized ion pair.
Calcium Rubies: A Family of Red-Emitting Functionalizable Indicators Suitable for Two-Photon Ca<sup>2+</sup> Imaging
作者:Mayeul Collot、Christina Loukou、Aleksey V. Yakovlev、Christian D. Wilms、Dongdong Li、Alexis Evrard、Alsu Zamaleeva、Laurent Bourdieu、Jean-François Léger、Nicole Ropert、Jens Eilers、Martin Oheim、Anne Feltz、Jean-Maurice Mallet
DOI:10.1021/ja304018d
日期:2012.9.12
We designed Calcium Rubies, a family of functionalizable BAPTA-based red-fluorescent calcium (Ca2+) indicators as new tools for biological Ca2+ imaging. The specificity of this Ca2+-indicator family is its side arm, attached on the ethylene glycol bridge that allows coupling the indicator to various groups while leaving open the possibility of aromatic substitutions on the BAPTA core for tuning the Ca2+-binding affinity. Using this possibility we now synthesize and characterize three different CaRubies with affinities between 3 and 22 mu M. Their long excitation and emission wavelengths (peaks at 586/604 nm) allow their use in otherwise challenging multicolor experiments, e.g., when combining Ca2+ uncaging or optogenetic stimulation with Ca2+ imaging in cells expressing fluorescent proteins. We illustrate this capacity by the detection of Ca2+ transients evoked by blue light in cultured astrocytes expressing CatCh, a light-sensitive Ca2+-translocating channelrhodopsin linked to yellow fluorescent protein. Using time-correlated single-photon counting, we measured fluorescence lifetimes for all CaRubies and demonstrate a 10-fold increase in the average lifetime upon Ca2+ chelation. Since only the fluorescence quantum yield but not the absorbance of the CaRubies is Ca2+-dependent, calibrated two-photon fluorescence excitation measurements of absolute Ca2+ concentrations are feasible.
Smith, Gerry A.; Kirschenlohr, Heide L.; Metcalfe, James C., Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions II, 1993, # 6, p. 1205 - 1210
作者:Smith, Gerry A.、Kirschenlohr, Heide L.、Metcalfe, James C.、Clarke, Sonia D.