Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 329, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2020.129148
Keywords
Lipid droplets (LDs); Lysosomes; Simultaneous visualization; Single fluorescent probe
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773111, 21672130, 52073163]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China [ZR2017ZC0227]
- Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University [2017JC011]
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory for Supramolecular Structure and Materials [SKLSSM201729]
- Special Fund of Taishan Scholars Project of Shandong Province, China [tsqn201909012]
- Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, TIPC, CAS [PCOM202001]
- Program of Qilu Young Scholars of Shandong University
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The study developed a polarity-sensitive naphthalimide derivative fluorescent probe LD-Lys with high photostability and low cytotoxicity, which can simultaneously image LDs and lysosomes by showing strong and weak fluorescence, respectively. The dual-color imaging of LDs with bright yellow emission and lysosomes with weak red emission was achieved using a confocal laser scanning microscope. By monitoring the location changes, real-time tracking of LDs and lysosomes in cells and visualizing the size, morphology, and distribution of LDs and lysosomes in different tissues were feasible with LD-Lys, making it a promising fluorescent agent for studying the LD-lysosome interplay and metabolism diseases.
Lipid droplets (LDs) and lysosomes, as the important subcellular organelles, play vital roles in cell metabolism and physiology. The finding that LDs can be degraded by lysosomes through lipophagy demonstrated the communication between LDs and lysosomes. Thus, simultaneous visualization of LDs and lysosomes is extremely valuable for studying the LD-lysosome interplay. However, single fluorescent probe for simultaneous imaging LDs and lysosomes in live cells and tissues has been rarely reported. Herein, we developed a polarity-sensitive naphthalimide derivative LD-Lys as fluorescent probe with high photostability and low cytotoxicity. Due to its TICT feature, LD-Lys is highly sensitive to the nuance of polarity between LDs and lysosomes, and show strong and weak fluorescence, respectively. The simultaneous two-color imaging of LDs with bright yellow emission and lysosomes with weak red emission is also realized by using the Lambda mode of confocal laser scanning microscope. By monitoring the location changes, real-time tracking the movement of LDs and lysosomes in cells by LD-Lys could be visualized. Interestingly, the size, morphology and distribution of LDs and lysosomes in different tissues could be also visualized clearly. These excellent properties made LD-Lys a promising fluorescent agent for studying the LD-lysosome interplay and metabolism diseases.
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