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- Title
Discerning the Chemistry in Individual Organelles with Small-Molecule Fluorescent Probes.
- Authors
Xu, Wang; Zeng, Zebing; Jiang, Jian-Hui; Chang, Young-Tae; Yuan, Lin
- Abstract
Principle has it that even the most advanced super-resolution microscope would be futile in providing biological insight into subcellular matrices without well-designed fluorescent tags/probes. Developments in biology have increasingly been boosted by advances of chemistry, with one prominent example being small-molecule fluorescent probes that not only allow cellular-level imaging, but also subcellular imaging. A majority, if not all, of the chemical/biological events take place inside cellular organelles, and researchers have been shifting their attention towards these substructures with the help of fluorescence techniques. This Review summarizes the existing fluorescent probes that target chemical/biological events within a single organelle. More importantly, organelle-anchoring strategies are described and emphasized to inspire the design of new generations of fluorescent probes, before concluding with future prospects on the possible further development of chemical biology.
- Subjects
SMALL molecules; ORGANELLES; CELL imaging; CHEMICAL biology; REACTIVE nitrogen species; REACTIVE oxygen species
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 44, p13658
- ISSN
1433-7851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/anie.201510721