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Kawaguchi M, Yonetani Y, Mizuguchi T, Spratt SJ, Asanuma M, Shimizu H, Sasaki M, Ozeki Y. Visualization of Modified Bisarylbutadiyne-Tagged Small Molecules in Live-Cell Nuclei by Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy. Anal Chem 2024; 96:6643-6651. [PMID: 38626411 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
Abstract
Visualizing the distribution of small-molecule drugs in living cells is an important strategy for developing specific, effective, and minimally toxic drugs. As an alternative to fluorescence imaging using bulky fluorophores or cell fixation, stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging combined with bisarylbutadiyne (BADY) tagging enables the observation of small molecules closer to their native intracellular state. However, there is evidence that the physicochemical properties of BADY-tagged analogues of small-molecule drugs differ significantly from those of their parent drugs, potentially affecting their intracellular distribution. Herein, we developed a modified BADY to reduce deviations in physicochemical properties (in particular, lipophilicity and membrane permeability) between tagged and parent drugs, while maintaining high Raman activity in live-cell SRS imaging. We highlight the practical application of this approach by revealing the nuclear distribution of a modified BADY-tagged analogue of JQ1, a bromodomain and extra-terminal motif inhibitor with applications in targeted cancer therapy, in living HeLa cells. The modified BADY, methoxypyridazyl pyrimidyl butadiyne (MPDY), revealed intranuclear JQ1, while BADY-tagged JQ1 did not show a clear nuclear signal. We anticipate that the present approach combining MPDY tagging with live-cell SRS imaging provides important insight into the behavior of intracellular drugs and represents a promising avenue for improving drug development.
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- Future Technology R&D Center, Canon Inc., Tokyo 146-8501, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Department, Daiichi Sankyo RD Novare Co., Ltd., Tokyo 134-8630, Japan
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- Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Department, Daiichi Sankyo RD Novare Co., Ltd., Tokyo 134-8630, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Spratt SJ, Mizuguchi T, Akaboshi H, Kosakamoto H, Okada R, Obata F, Ozeki Y. Imaging the uptake of deuterated methionine in Drosophila with stimulated Raman scattering. Front Chem 2023; 11:1141920. [PMID: 37065821 PMCID: PMC10090404 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1141920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Introduction: Visualizing small individual biomolecules at subcellular resolution in live cells and tissues can provide valuable insights into metabolic activity in heterogeneous cells, but is challenging.Methods: Here, we used stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy to image deuterated methionine (d-Met) incorporated into Drosophila tissues in vivo.Results: Our results demonstrate that SRS can detect a range of previously uncharacterized cell-to-cell differences in d-Met distribution within a tissue at the subcellular level.Discussion: These results demonstrate the potential of SRS microscopy for metabolic imaging of less abundant but important amino acids such as methionine in tissue.
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- Spencer J. Spratt
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Nutritional Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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- Laboratory for Nutritional Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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- Laboratory for Nutritional Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and Development, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- *Correspondence: Yasuyuki Ozeki,
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Kawatani M, Spratt SJ, Fujioka H, Shou J, Misawa Y, Kojima R, Urano Y, Ozeki Y, Kamiya M. 9-Cyano-10-telluriumpyronin Derivatives as Red-light-activatable Raman Probes. Chem Asian J 2023; 18:e202201086. [PMID: 36461627 PMCID: PMC10107100 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202201086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Photoactivatable fluorescence probes can track the dynamics of specific cells or biomolecules with high spatiotemporal resolution, but their broad absorption and emission peaks limit the number of wavelength windows that can be employed simultaneously. In contrast, the narrower peak width of Raman signals offers more scope for simultaneous discrimination of multiple targets, and therefore a palette of photoactivatable Raman probes would enable more comprehensive investigation of biological phenomena. Herein we report 9-cyano-10-telluriumpyronin (9CN-TeP) derivatives as photoactivatable Raman probes whose stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) intensity is enhanced by photooxidation of the tellurium atom. Modification to increase the stability of the oxidation product led to a julolidine-like derivative, 9CN-diMeJTeP, which is photo-oxidized at the tellurium atom by red light irradiation to afford a sufficiently stable oxidation product with strong electronic pre-resonance, resulting in a bathochromic shift of the absorption spectrum and increased SRS intensity.
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- Minoru Kawatani
- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.,Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.,Living Systems Materialogy (LiSM) Research Group, International Research Frontiers Initiative (IRFI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8501, Japan
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Spratt SJ, Oguchi K, Miura K, Asanuma M, Kosakamoto H, Obata F, Ozeki Y. Probing Methionine Uptake in Live Cells by Deuterium Labeling and Stimulated Raman Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:1633-1639. [PMID: 35195004 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
The small biomolecule methionine (Met) is a fundamental amino acid required for a vast range of biological processes such as protein synthesis, cancer metabolism, and epigenetics. However, it is still difficult to visualize the subcellular distribution of small biomolecules including Met in a minimally invasive manner. Here, we demonstrate stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging of cellular uptake of deuterated methionine (d8-Met) in live HeLa cells by way of comparison to the previously used alkyne-labeled Met analogue─homopropargylglycine (Hpg). We show that the solutions of d8-Met and Hpg have similar SRS signal intensities. Furthermore, by careful image analysis with background subtraction, we succeed in the SRS imaging of cellular uptake of d8-Met with a much greater signal intensity than Hpg, possibly reflecting the increased and minimally invasive uptake kinetics of d8-Met compared with Hpg. We anticipate that d8-Met and other deuterated biomolecules will be useful for investigating metabolic processes with subcellular resolution.
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- Spencer J Spratt
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.,Laboratory for Nutritional Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.,Laboratory for Nutritional Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.,Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and Development, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Spratt SJ. A computation using mutually exclusive processing is sufficient to identify specific Hedgehog signaling components. Front Genet 2014; 4:284. [PMID: 24391661 PMCID: PMC3867666 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2013] [Accepted: 11/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
A system of more than one part can be deciphered by observing differences between the parts. A simple way to do this is by recording something absolute displaying a trait in one part and not in another: in other words, mutually exclusive computation. Conditional directed expression in vivo offers processing in more than one part of the system giving increased computation power for biological systems analysis. Here, I report the consideration of these aspects in the development of an in vivo screening assay that appears sufficient to identify components specific to a system.
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- Spencer J Spratt
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Okinawa, Japan ; Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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