化学
荧光团
适体
细胞内
生物物理学
生物分子
荧光
生物化学
分子生物学
物理
量子力学
生物
作者
Yibo Zhou,Xiaofei Ma,Shan Huang,Sheng Yang,Jingru Guo,Junbin Li,Yuefei Zhang,Juewen Liu,Zhihe Qing,Ronghua Yang
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00759
摘要
ATP, a small molecule with high intracellular concentration (mM level), provides a fuel to power signal amplification, which is meaningful for biosensing. However, traditional ATP-powered amplification is based on ATP/aptamer recognition, which is susceptible to the complex biological microenvironment (e.g., nuclease). In this work, we communicate a signaling manner termed as ATP-specific polyvalent hydrogen binding (APHB), which is mimetic to ATP/aptamer binding but can avoid interference from biomolecules. The key in APHB is a functional fluorophore that can selectively bind with ATP via polyvalent hydrogen, and the fluorescence was lighted with the changes of the molecular structure from flexibility to rigidity. By designing, synthesizing, and screening a series of compounds, we successfully obtained an ATP-specific binding-lighted fluorophore (ABF). Experimental verification and a complex analogue demonstrated that two melamine brackets in the ABF dominate the polyvalent hydrogen binding between the ABF and ATP. Then, to achieve amplification biosensing, fibroblast activation protein (FAP) in activated hepatic stellate cells was taken as a model target, and a nanobeacon consisting of an ABF, a quencher, and an FAP-activated polymer shell was constructed. Benefiting from the ATP-powered amplification, the FAP was sensitively detected and imaged, and the potential relationship between differentiation of hepatocytes and FAP concentration was first revealed, highlighting the great potential of APHB-mediated signaling for intracellular sensing.
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