Effective Cellular Morphology Analysis for Differentiation Processes by a Fluorescent 1,3a,6a-Triazapentalene Derivative Probe in Live Cells

• Kamada, Rui

• Tano, Fumi

• Kudoh, Fuki

• Kimura, Nozomi

• Chuman, Yoshiro

• Osawa, Ayumi

• Namba, Kosuke

• Tanino, Keiji

• Sakaguchi, Kazuyasu

• Alexander F. Palazzo

  editor

抄録

Nuclear and cytoplasmic morphological changes provide important information about cell differentiation processes, cell functions, and signal responses. There is a strong desire to develop a rapid and simple method for visualizing cytoplasmic and nuclear morphology. Here, we developed a novel and rapid method for probing cellular morphological changes of live cell differentiation process by a fluorescent probe, TAP-4PH, a 1,3a,6a-triazapentalene derivative. TAP-4PH showed high fluorescence in cytoplasmic area, and visualized cytoplasmic and nuclear morphological changes of live cells during differentiation. We demonstrated that TAP-4PH visualized dendritic axon and spine formation in neuronal differentiation, and nuclear structural changes during neutrophilic differentiation. We also showed that the utility of TAP-4PH for visualization of cytoplasmic and nuclear morphologies of various type of live cells. Our visualizing method has no toxicity and no influence on the cellular differentiation and function. The cell morphology can be rapidly observed after addition of TAP-4PH and can continue to be observed in the presence of TAP-4PH in cell culture medium. Moreover, TAP-4PH can be easily removed after observation by washing for subsequent biological assay. Taken together, these results demonstrate that our visualization method is a powerful tool to probe differentiation processes before subsequent biological assay in live cells.

収録刊行物

• PLOS ONE

  PLOS ONE 11 (8), e0160625-, 2016-08-04

  Public Library of Science

キーワード

• Multidisciplinary

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050282813998313984
• NII論文ID: 120006534973
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160625
• ISSN: 19326203
• HANDLE: 2115/63136
• Web Site: http://repo.lib.tokushima-u.ac.jp/112331
• Web Site: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160625
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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