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Selective chemical imaging of static actin in live cells

  • J Am Chem Soc. 2012 May 23;134(20):8480-6. doi: 10.1021/ja211708z.
Lech-Gustav Milroy 1 Stefano Rizzo Abram Calderon Bernhard Ellinger Silke Erdmann Justine Mondry Peter Verveer Philippe Bastiaens Herbert Waldmann Leif Dehmelt Hans-Dieter Arndt
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  • 1 Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Abstract

We have characterized rationally designed and optimized analogues of the actin-stabilizing natural products jasplakinolide and chondramide C. Efficient actin staining was achieved in fixed permeabilized and non-permeabilized cells using different combinations of dye and linker length, thus highlighting the degree of molecular flexibility of the natural product scaffold. Investigations into synthetically accessible, non-toxic analogues have led to the characterization of a powerful cell-permeable probe to selectively image static, long-lived actin filaments against dynamic F-actin and monomeric G-actin populations in live cells, with negligible disruption of rapid actin dynamics.

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