Thiol-chromene click reaction-triggered mitochondria-targeted ratiometric fluorescent probe for intracellular biothiol imaging.

Anal Bioanal Chem

Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center for Chemistry and Engineering of Forest Products, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, 530006, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.

Published: November 2024

Chromene as the efficient biothiol recognition site was widely used to develop fluorescent probes based on thiol-chromene click reaction. However, chromene-based fluorescent probes with the both properties of ratiometric measurement and mitochondria-targeted function have not been reported and remain challenging. In this paper, we skillfully designed and synthesized the first mitochondria-targeted ratiometric fluorescent probe (Probe 1) for biothiols based on chromene. Upon addition of biothiols (Cys, Hcy, and GSH), the absorption and fluorescence spectra of Probe 1 changed from 490 to 426 nm and from 567 to 498 nm respectively, accompanied by color changes from orange to pale yellow under natural light and from orange to blue under a 365-nm UV lamp, which can be attributed to the click reaction of biothiols with α,β-unsaturated ketone of chromene moiety, subsequent pyran ring-opening, and phenol formation as well as 1,6-elimination of p-hydroxybenzyl moiety. Probe 1 not only exhibited high sensitivity (LODs of 149 nM, 133 nM, and 116 nM for Cys, GSH, and Hcy respectively), rapid response, and excellent selectivity for biothiols (Cys, Hcy, and GSH), but also could target in mitochondria and ratiometrically image the fluctuation of intracellular biothiols. Moreover, the novel design strategy of modifying chromene to the N atom of pyridine was proposed for the first time.

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