Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 48, Issue 8, Pages 983-1001Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.01.028
Keywords
Hydroethidine; Superoxide radical anion; Fluorescent probes; HPLC; Free radicals; Reactive oxygen species
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [NS40494, HL073056, HL063119]
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Hydroethidine (HE, or dihydroethidium) is the most popular fluorogenic probe used for detecting inn acellular superoxide radical anion The reaction between superoxide and HE generates a highly specific red fluorescent product, 2-hydroxyethidium (2-OH-E+) In biological systems, another red fluorescent. product, ethidium. is also formed, usually at a much higher concentration than 2-OH-E+ In this article, we review the methods to selectively detect the superoxide-specific product (2-OH-E+) and the factors affecting its levels in cellular and biological systems The most important conclusion of this review is that it is neatly impossible to assess the intracellular levels of the superoxide-specific product. 2-OH-E+, using confocal microscopy or other fluorescence-based microscopy assays and that it is essential to measure by HPLC the intracellular HE and other oxidation products of HE, in addition to 2-OH-E+. to fully understand the origin of red fluorescence The chemical reactivity of mitochondria-targeted hydroethidine (Mito-HE, MitoSOX red) with superoxide is similar to the reactivity of HE with superoxide, and therefore, all of the limitations attributed to the HE assay are applicable to Mito-HE (or MitoSOX) as well (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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