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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 18, Pages 5925-5933Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00277
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- JSPS KAKENHI [16H00823, 16H05099, 16H06574]
- KAKENHI [17H06173]
- SENTAN, JST
- A. Advanced Research Networks
- Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
- JSPS Core-to-Core program
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In biological systems, the pH in intracellular organelles or tissues is strictly regulated, and differences of pH are deeply related to key biological events such as protein degradation, intracellular trafficking, renal failure, and cancer. Ratiometric fluorescence imaging is useful for determination of precise pH values, but existing fluorescence probes have substantial limitations, such as inappropriate pK(a) for imaging in the physiological pH range, inadequate photobleaching resistance, and insufficiently long excitation and emission wavelengths. Here we report a versatile scaffold for ratiometric fluorescence pH probes, based on asymmetric rhodamine. To demonstrate its usefulness for biological applications, we employed it to develop two probes. (1) SiRpHS has suitable pK(a) and water solubility for imaging in acidic intracellular compartments; by using transferrin tagged with SiRpHS, we achieved time-lapse imaging of pH in endocytic compartments during protein trafficking for the first time. (2) Me-pEPPR is a near-infrared (NIR) probe; by using dextrin tagged with Me-pEPPR, we were able to image extracellular pH of renal tubules and tumors in situ. These chemical tools should be useful for studying the influence of intra- and extracellular pH on biological processes, as well as for in vivo imaging.
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