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Mechanosensitive Fluorescent Probes to Image Membrane Tension in Mitochondria, Endoplasmic Reticulum, and Lysosomes

Goujon, Antoine
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Colom, Adai
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Strakova, Karolina
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February 27, 2019
Journal Of The American Chemical Society

Measuring forces inside cells is particularly challenging. With the development of quantitative microscopy, fluorophores which allow the measurement of forces became highly desirable. We have previously introduced a mechanosensitive flipper probe, which responds to the change of plasma membrane tension by changing its fluorescence lifetime and thus allows tension imaging by FLIM. Herein, we describe the design, synthesis, and evaluation of flipper probes that selectively label intracellular organelles, i.e., lysosomes, mitochondria, and the endoplasmic reticulum. The probes respond uniformly to osmotic shocks applied extracellularly, thus confirming sensitivity toward changes in membrane tension. At rest, different lifetimes found for different organelles relate to known differences in membrane organization rather than membrane tension and allow colabeling in the same cells. At the organelle scale, lifetime heterogeneity provides unprecedented insights on ER tubules and sheets, and nuclear membranes. Examples on endosomal trafficking or increase of tension at mitochondrial constriction sites outline the potential of intra-cellularly targeted fluorescent tension probes to address essential questions that were previously beyond reach.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/jacs.8b13189
Web of Science ID

WOS:000460200100010

Author(s)
Goujon, Antoine
Colom, Adai
Strakova, Karolina
Mercier, Vincent
Mahecic, Dora  
Manley, Suliana  
Sakai, Naomi
Roux, Aurelien
Matile, Stefan
Date Issued

2019-02-27

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
Volume

141

Issue

8

Start page

3380

End page

3384

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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dyes

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dynamics

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fission

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design

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fusion

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lipids

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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June 18, 2019
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