In vivo imaging of zebrafish digestive organ function using multiple quenched fluorescent reporters
| Autor: | Jennifer L. Anderson, Elayne Provost, Steven A. Farber, Amy L. Rubinstein, Kotaro Hama, Steven D. Leach, Timothy C. Baranowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Physiology
Vesicular Transport Proteins Organ function Biology Physiology (medical) Animals Zebrafish Phospholipids Fluorescent Dyes Hepatology fungi Gastroenterology Gene Expression Regulation Developmental Reproducibility of Results Zebrafish Proteins biology.organism_classification Fluorescence Pancreas Exocrine Intestines Luminescent Proteins Microscopy Fluorescence Biochemistry Phospholipases Digestive organ Larva Peptide Hydrolases Exocrine pancreas Innovative Methodology Digestion Cholecystokinin Preclinical imaging Function (biology) Signal Transduction Transcription Factors |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 296:G445-G453 |
| ISSN: | 1522-1547 0193-1857 |
| DOI: | 10.1152/ajpgi.90513.2008 |
| Popis: | Optical clarity of larvae makes the zebrafish ideal for real-time analyses of vertebrate organ function through the use of fluorescent reporters of enzymatic activities. A key function of digestive organs is to couple the generation of enzymes with mechanical processes that enable nutrient availability and absorption. However, it has been extremely difficult, and in many cases not possible, to directly observe digestive processes in a live vertebrate. Here we describe a new method to visualize intestinal protein and lipid processing simultaneously in live zebrafish larvae using a quenched fluorescent protein (EnzChek) and phospholipid (PED6). By employing these reagents, we found that wild-type larvae exhibit significant variation in intestinal phospholipase and protease activities within a group but display a strong correlation between the activities within individuals. Furthermore, we found that pancreas function is essential for larval digestive protease activity but not for larval intestinal phospholipase activity. Although fat-free ( ffr) mutant larvae were previously described to exhibit impaired lipid processes, we found they also had significantly reduced protease activity. Finally, we selected and evaluated compounds that were previously suggested to have altered phospholipase activity and are known or suspected to have inflammatory effects in the intestinal tract including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and identified a compound that significantly increases intestinal phospholipid processing. Thus the multiple fluorescent reporter-based methodology facilitates the rapid analysis of digestive organ function in live zebrafish larvae. |
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