使用DNA框架编码的振动诱导辐射分子组件探测细胞膜张力
Chengpin Liang1, Qiuling Huang2, Haoran Zheng1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and National Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 6, 2024
概括
研究人员使用DNA和振动诱导发射 (VIE) 探针开发了新的分子组件,用于活细胞膜张力成像. 三价组件显示长时间的细胞膜保留,使有效的张力可视化.
科学领域:
- 生物物理化学
- 分子生物学
- 细胞力学
背景情况:
- 机械敏感的光探针对于研究细胞力学和粘度至关重要.
- 开发具有机械探测的集成功能的分子组件存在重大挑战.
研究的目的:
- 通过将DNA框架与振动诱导辐射 (VIE) 探针集成来设计和合成新的机械敏感分子组件.
- 通过这些集成组件实现活细胞膜张力成像.
主要方法:
- 合成的四面体DNA框架使用振动诱导发射 (VIE) 探测器.
- 研究VIE探针在水和模型膜系统中的DNA框架的特性.
- 评估不同接触点的分子组合的细胞膜向和保留行为.
主要成果:
- 对DNA框架的VIE探测器保持了它们的比度光反应.
- 基于接触点的分子组合表现出明显的细胞膜向.
- 与自由VIE或单/双价组件相比,三价组件显示抑制内部化和延长膜保留.
- 使用三价组件和共聚焦显微镜成功实现了细胞膜张力的比度光成像.
结论:
- 基于DNA框架和VIE探针的机械敏感分子组合对活细胞膜张力成像有效.
- 三价组件提供增强的细胞膜准和保留长时间成像.
- 这些多功能探针具有活细胞机械研究的巨大潜力.
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