Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 16, Pages 13264-13273Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b12521
Keywords
monomer/excimer-like emission; nucleolus; lysosome and mitochondrion; dual color imaging; cell damage diagnosis
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [21231007, 21572282]
- 973 program [2014CB845604, 2015CB856301]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2013B051000047, 207999]
- Ministry of Education of China [IRT_17R111]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Studies on the development of fluorescent organic molecules with different emission colors for imaging of organelles and their biomedical application are gaining lots of focus recently. Here, we report two cationic organochalcogens 1 and 2, both of which exhibit very weak green emission (Phi(1) = 0.12%; Phi(2) = 0.09%) in dilute solution as monomers, but remarkably enhanced green emission upon interaction with nucleic acids and large red-shifted emission in aggregate state by the formation of excimers at high concentration. More interestingly, the monomer emission and excimer-like emission can be used for dual color imaging of different organelles. Upon passively diffusing into cells, both probes selectively stain nucleoli with strong green emission upon 488 nm excitation, whereas upon 405 nm excitation, a completely different stain pattern by staining lysosomes (for 1) or mitochondria (for 2) with distinct red emission is observed because of the highly concentrated accumulation in these organelles. Studies on the mechanism of the accumulation in lysosomes (for 1) or mitochondria (for 2) found that the accumulations of the probes are dependent on the membrane permeabilization, which make the probes have great potential in diagnosing cell damage by sensing lysosomal or mitochondrial membrane permeabilization. The study is demonstrative, for the first time, of two cationic molecules for dual-color imaging nucleoli and lysosomes (1)/mitochondria (2) simultaneously in live cell based on monomer and excimer-like emission, respectively, and more importantly, for diagnosing cell damage.
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