Preparation of lucifer yellow fluorescent liposomes: A method for cells' membrane labeling |
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Authors: | Carolina Menna Natalia Calonghi Lanfranco Masotti Paolo Neyroz |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dipartimento di Biochimica G. Moruzzi, , Università degli Studi de Bologna, Bologna, Italy;(2) Instituto di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy;(3) Dipartimento di Biochimica G. Moruzzi, , Sezlone di Biochimica Farmaceutica, Via San Donato, 19/2°, 40127 Bologna, Italy |
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Abstract: | This report describes a method to conjugate lucifer yellow to the external surface of liposomes. The heterobifunctional cross-linking reagentN-succinimidyl 3-(2-pyridyldithio)propionate has been used to activate DMPE molecules. The DMPE-dithiopyridine product has been mixed with DMPC to prepare liposome vesicles. These have been reduced by DTT and finally reacted with lucifer yellow-iodoacetamide to produce the fluorescence-labeled vesicles. The quenching of their fluorescence intensity by Kl is consistent with fully exposed fluorophores. The decay of the fluorescence intensity of the lipid-bound lucifer yellow is biexponential ( 1=7.9 ns; 2=1.1 ns), with a relative yield of 0.16. When the fluorescent liposomes are mixed with cells, the lucifer yellow-DMPE derivative is transferred. Boar spermatozoa and peripheral human blood lymphocytes have been used as cellular models. The extent of incorporation is dependent on the incubation time and temperature. At 36°C, lucifer yellow fluorescence appears in the spermatozoa cells after 10 min of incubation and reaches its maximum at about 60 min. The fluorescent phospholipid derivative seems to incorporate specifically into membrane structures. The highest labeling ratio is observed with integer, scarcely motile, spermatozoa. A poorer labeling yield ( 15%) is found with lymphocytes. Interestingly, photobleaching due to epiillumination of the labeled cells is apparently negligible and cells are clearly visible after irradiation times ranging from several minutes to few hours.A preliminary account of this work was presented at the Quarto Simposio su Biotecnologie Biochimiche, Capri, 28–30 June 1992. |
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Keywords: | Lucifer yellow liposomes fluorescent dyes membranes |
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