Yin Caixia, Huo Fangjun, Cooley Nicholas P, Spencer David, Bartholomew Kyle, Barnes Charles L, Glass Timothy E
Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi Province, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University , Taiyuan 030006, China.
Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri , 601 South College Avenue, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States.
ACS Chem Neurosci. 2017 Jun 21;8(6):1159-1162. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.6b00420. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
The direct visualization of neurotransmitters is a continuing problem in neuroscience; however, functional fluorescent sensors for organic analytes are still rare. Herein, we describe a fluorescent sensor for glutamate and zinc ions. The sensor acts as a fluorescent logic gate, giving a turn-off response to glutamate or zinc ion alone. The combination of analytes produces a large increase in fluorescence. This type of sensor will aid in the study of neurotransmission, in this case, for neurons that copackage high concentrations of zinc and glutamate.
神经递质的直接可视化一直是神经科学中的一个难题;然而,用于有机分析物的功能性荧光传感器仍然很少见。在此,我们描述了一种用于谷氨酸和锌离子的荧光传感器。该传感器作为一个荧光逻辑门,对单独的谷氨酸或锌离子给出关闭响应。分析物的组合会使荧光大幅增加。这种类型的传感器将有助于神经传递的研究,在这种情况下,适用于共包装高浓度锌和谷氨酸的神经元。