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Cingolani M, Lugli F, Zaffagnini M, Genovese D. Fluorogenic Hyaluronan Nanogels Track Individual Early Protein Aggregates Originated under Oxidative Stress. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:3056-3063. [PMID: 38194274 PMCID: PMC10811615 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c13202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
Abstract
Proteins are broadly versatile biochemical materials, whose functionality is tightly related to their folding state. Native folding can be lost to yield misfolded conformations, often leading to formation of protein oligomers, aggregates, and biomolecular phase condensates. The fluorogenic hyaluronan HA-RB, a nonsulfonated glycosaminoglycan with a combination of polyanionic character and of hydrophobic spots due to rhodamine B dyes, binds to early aggregates of the model protein cytoplasmic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 1 from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtGAPC1) since the very onset of the oligomeric phase, making them brightly fluorescent. This initial step of aggregation has, until now, remained elusive with other fluorescence- or scattering-based techniques. The information gathered from nanotracking (via light-sheet fluorescence microscopy) and from FCS in a confocal microscope converges to highlight the ability of HA-RB to bind protein aggregates from the very early steps of aggregation and with high affinity. Altogether, this fluorescence-based approach allows one to monitor and track individual early AtGAPC1 aggregates in the size range from 10 to 100 nm with high time (∼10-2 s) and space (∼250 nm) resolution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Matteo Cingolani
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Università
di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Giacomo Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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Kim JH, Rosenfeld J, Kim YC, Choe S, Composto RJ, Lee D, Dreyfus R. Polymer-Grafted, Gold Nanoparticle-Based Nano-Capsules as Reversible Colorimetric Tensile Strain Sensors. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2300361. [PMID: 37140078 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Colloidal colorimetric microsensors enable the in-situ detection of mechanical strains within materials. Enhancing the sensitivity of these sensors to small scale deformation while enabling reversibility of the sensing capability would expand their utility in applications including biosensing and chemical sensing. In this study, we introduce the synthesis of colloidal colorimetric nano-sensors using a simple and readily scalable fabrication method. Colloidal nano sensors are prepared by emulsion-templated assembly of polymer-grafted gold nanoparticles (AuNP). To direct the adsorption of AuNP to the oil-water interface of emulsion droplets, AuNP (≈11nm) are functionalized with thiol-terminated polystyrene (PS, Mn = 11k). These PS-grafted gold nanoparticles are suspended in toluene and subsequently emulsified to form droplets with a diameter of ≈30µm. By evaporating the solvent of the oil-inwater emulsion, we form nanocapsules (AuNC) (diameter < 1µm) decorated by PS-grafted AuNP. To test mechanical sensing, the AuNC are embedded in an elastomer matrix. The addition of a plasticizer reduces the glass transition temperature of the PS brushes, and in turn imparts reversible deformability to the AuNC. The plasmonic peak of the AuNC shifts towards lower wavelengths upon application of uniaxial tensile tension, indicating increased inter-nanoparticle distance, and reverts back as the tension is released.
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- Jae-Hyun Kim
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter Laboratory (COMPASS), UMI 3254, CNRS-Solvay-University of Pennsylvania, CRTB, Bristol, PA, 19007, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA
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- Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter Laboratory (COMPASS), UMI 3254, CNRS-Solvay-University of Pennsylvania, CRTB, Bristol, PA, 19007, USA
- Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystemes (LN2), CNRS - Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 0A5, Canada
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Majeed S, Waseem MT, Junaid HM, Khan GS, Nawazish S, Mahmood T, Khan AM, Shahzad SA. Aggregation induced emission based fluorenes as dual-channel fluorescent probes for rapid detection of cyanide: applications of smartphones and logic gates. RSC Adv 2022; 12:18897-18910. [PMID: 35873344 PMCID: PMC9241151 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra03119a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Rational modification of molecular structure by incorporating electron donating groups can play a potential role for designing aggregation induced emission (AIE) active fluorescent probes. Based on this principle, fluorescent probes (1a–c) were synthesized, and they displayed excellent aggregation induced emission (AIE) behavior in a H2O/DMF (4 : 1, v/v) mixture due to restrictions in intramolecular charge transfer (ICT). As a comparison, probe 1d was synthesized by installing an electron withdrawing (–NO2) group that surprisingly quenched the aggregation behaviour. Additionally, AIE active probes 1a–c displayed a highly sensitive dual channel (fluorometric and colorimetric) response towards rapid detection of CN−, which is an active toxic material. Probes 1a–c showed selectively enhanced fluorescence emission behavior towards CN− with detection limits of 1.34 ppb, 1.38 ppb, and 1.54 ppb, respectively. The sensing mechanism involves Michael type adduct formation due to the nucleophilic addition reaction of cyanide with probes and was confirmed through 1H NMR titration experiments. In contrast, probe 1d containing an electron withdrawing moiety showed insensitivity towards CN−. Therefore, this study provides the efficient strategy to induce AIE character in fluorescent probes and expands the mechanistic approach toward the sensing of toxic CN−. Rational modification of molecular structure by incorporating electron donating groups can play a potential role for designing aggregation induced emission (AIE) active fluorescent probes.![]()
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- Shumaila Majeed
- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Bahrain Sakhir 32038 Bahrain
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan .,Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Bahrain Sakhir 32038 Bahrain
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus University Road Abbottabad 22060 Pakistan
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Recent Progress of Squaraine-Based Fluorescent Materials and Their Biomedical Applications. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14050966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Squaraines (SQs) are unusual cyanine dyes with a unique resonance-stabilized zwitterionic structure. These dyes have attracted significant attention in the fields of organic electronics and organic photonics, due to their facile synthesis, intense and narrow visible and near-infrared absorption/emission, high photostability, low biotoxicity, etc. In this review, we summarize the recent progress of SQ-based fluorescent materials and their biomedical applications. After a brief introduction to SQs, general synthetic routes and design principles of SQ-based fluorescent materials, as well as their aggregation-induced luminescence behaviors, are discussed. Subsequently, their biomedical applications for cell imaging and as fluorescent sensors and therapeutic agents are introduced. Finally, a summary and perspective are given for promoting the development of SQs-based fluorescent materials.
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