Journal
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 16, Pages 4691-4696Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304296
Keywords
dyes; fluorescent probes; imaging agents; steric hindrance; viscosity
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- NSF of China [21136002, 21376039]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB733702]
- Ministry of Education [NCET-12-0080]
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Cellular viscosity is a critical factor in governing diffusion-mediated cellular processes and is linked to a number of diseases and pathologies. Fluorescent molecular rotors (FMRs) have recently been developed to determine viscosity in solutions or biological fluid. Herein, we report a distorted-BODIPY-based probe BV-1 for cellular viscosity, which is different from the conventional pure rotors. In BV-1, the internal steric hindrance between the meso-CHO group and the 1,7-dimethyl group forced the boron-dipyrrin framework to be distorted, which mainly caused nonradiative deactivation in low-viscosity environment. BV-1 gave high sensitivity (x=0.62) together with stringent selectivity to viscosity, thus enabling viscosity mapping in live cells. Significantly, the increase of cytoplasmic viscosity during apoptosis was observed by BV-1 in real time.
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