Selective fluorescence labeling of lipids in living cells

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2009;48(8):1498-500. doi: 10.1002/anie.200805507.

Abstract

Click chemistry in vivo: Three phosphatidic acid derivatives with alkyne groups in their fatty acid chains were synthesized and incorporated into mammalian cell membranes. Copper(I)-catalyzed and strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions were used for their visualization (see schematic representation and fluorescence microscopic image).

MeSH terms

  • Alkynes / chemical synthesis
  • Alkynes / chemistry
  • Alkynes / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Azides / chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Copper / chemistry
  • Cyclization
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemical synthesis
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry*
  • Lipids / chemistry*
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence

Substances

  • Alkynes
  • Azides
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Lipids
  • Copper