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A PET-based fluorescent probe for monitoring labile Fe(II) pools in macrophage activations and ferroptosis
Wanjin Xing1, Hang Xu1, Huijuan Ma1
1State Key Laboratory of Bioengineering Reactor, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science & Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China. xuhuan@ecust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A fluorescent probe (COU-LIP-1) for monitoring labile Fe(II) pools (LIP) with high selectivity and sensitivity was developed utilizing coumarin 343 as the fluorophore and 3-nitrophenylazanyl ester as both the reactive group and the fluorescence quenching group. Fe(II)-induced reductive cleavage of the N-O bond results in a turn-on response via a photo-induced photon transfer (PET) mechanism. The probe was applied for monitoring labile iron(II) changes in M1 and M2a macrophage activations and also erastin-induced ferroptosis, providing a powerful tool for selectively sensing LIP under both physiological and stressed conditions.
