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ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 405, 期 12, 页码 3983-3987出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-6860-y
关键词
Enhanced cyan fluorescent protein or ECFP; pH sensor; Fluorescent protein; FLIM; PC12 cells; Granular pH
资金
- Nikon France
- Universite Paris-Sud
- ANR [PCV-2007]
pH is an important parameter that affects many functions of live cells, from protein structure or function to several crucial steps of their metabolism. Genetically encoded pH sensors based on pH-sensitive fluorescent proteins have been developed and used to monitor the pH of intracellular compartments. The quantitative analysis of pH variations can be performed either by ratiometric or fluorescence lifetime detection. However, most available genetically encoded pH sensors are based on green and yellow fluorescent proteins and are not compatible with multicolor approaches. Taking advantage of the strong pH sensitivity of enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP), we demonstrate here its suitability as a sensitive pH sensor using fluorescence lifetime imaging. The intracellular ECFP lifetime undergoes large changes (32 %) in the pH 5 to pH 7 range, which allows accurate pH measurements to better than 0.2 pH units. By fusion of ECFP with the granular chromogranin A, we successfully measured the pH in secretory granules of PC12 cells, and we performed a kinetic analysis of intragranular pH variations in living cells exposed to ammonium chloride.
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