Comparative assessment of bacterial diversity and composition in arsenic hyperaccumulator, Pteris vittata L. and non-accumulator, Pteris ensiformis Burm.

The use of arsenic (As) for various industrial and agricultural applications has led to worldwide environmental contamination. Phytoremediation using hyperaccumulators is a sustainable soil As mitigation strategy. Microbial processes play an important role in the tolerance and uptake of trace elements such as in plants.

Near-infrared rhodol dyes bearing salicylaldehyde moieties for ratiometric pH sensing in live cells during mitophagy and under hypoxia conditions.

We describe a simple but efficient approach to make fluorescent probes A and B based on rhodol dyes incorporated with salicyaldehyde moiety for monitoring pH changes in mitochondria under oxidative stresses and hypoxia conditions, and for tracking mitophagy processes. Probes A and B possess p values (p ≈ 6.41 and 6.

Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes with Amine-Incorporated Xanthene Platforms for the Detection of Hypoxia.

Three fluorescent probes , , and that function in the near-infrared wavelengths and utilize pseudo xanthene platforms with an oxygen atom at the 10-position replaced by a [Me-N] group have been created to identify hypoxia via nitroreductase determinations at the 0.04, 0.10, and 0.

Ratiometric Detection of Glutathione Based on Disulfide Linkage Rupture between a FRET Coumarin Donor and a Rhodamine Acceptor.

Abnormal levels of glutathione, a cellular antioxidant, can lead to a variety of diseases. We have constructed a near-infrared ratiometric fluorescent probe to detect glutathione concentrations in biological samples. The probe consists of a coumarin donor, which is connected through a disulfide-tethered linker to a rhodamine acceptor.

Ratiometric Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes Based on Hemicyanine Dyes Bearing Dithioacetal and Formal Residues for pH Detection in Mitochondria.

Ratiometric near-infrared fluorescent probes ( and ) have been prepared for pH determination in mitochondria by attaching dithioacetal and formal residues onto a hemicyanine dye. The reactive formyl group on probe allows for retention inside mitochondria as it can react with a protein primary amine residue to form an imine under slightly basic pH 8.0.