FRET-based rational strategy for ratiometric detection of Cu2+ and live cell imaging

Autor: Tapas K. Kundu, Dhanasekaran Karthigeyan, Thimmaiah Govindaraju, Debabrata Maity
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 176:831-837
ISSN: 0925-4005
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.071
Popis: We present chemosensors with coumarin as donor and rhodamine as acceptor for ratiometric fluorescent imaging of Cu 2+ based on metal ion induced FRET off-on mechanism. Two chemosensors coumarin–rhodamine hydrazone ( CRO ) and coumarin–rhodamine thiohydrazone ( CRS ) ratiometrically detects Cu 2+ in judiciously chosen aqueous buffer medium. Free ligands ( CRO and CRS ) emit green fluorescence and in presence of Cu 2+ the emission colour changed to red as spirolactam ring of rhodamine opens up upon complexation with metal ion. CRO and CRS can be used for successful detection of Cu 2+ in presence of other competing metal ions by employing ratiometric fluorescence property. Probes CRO and CRS undergo 1:1 stoichiometric complexation with Cu 2+ with the calculated association constants (log K a ) of 8.81 and 8.75 M -1 for [ CRO :Cu 2+ ] and [ CRS :Cu 2+ ] respectively. The probes CRO and CRS were employed as ratiometric biosensor for living cell imaging of Cu 2+ in HEK293T cells.
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