A long-time multicolor fluorescence imaging reagent for cell membrane, its preparation method and application

Abstract

The invention provides a long-time multi-color fluorescent imaging reagent for cell membrane, its preparation method and application. The cell membrane imaging reagent is prepared by a two-step method: (1) grafting a certain amount of polyethylene glycol-cholesterol molecules on the surface of polyamide-amine dendrimers (PAMAM); (2) obtaining the product in the first step Different fluorescent molecules were grafted onto the membrane to obtain the final membrane imaging reagent. The imaging reagent is simple to prepare, has good water dispersibility and biocompatibility, rapid imaging, wide applicability and long-lasting imaging effect. There are various types of fluorescent molecules in the imaging reagent, so that cell membrane imaging of different colors can be realized. In addition, in addition to its excellent membrane imaging capabilities for various mammalian cells cultured in vitro, this reagent can also perform in situ and long-term imaging of cell membranes / walls of bacteria and fungi, as well as cell membranes of epidermal cells of living zebrafish embryos.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of biotechnology, and in particular relates to a long-time multicolor fluorescent imaging reagent for cell membranes and its preparation method and usage. Background technique [0002] The cell membrane has important physiological functions. It not only maintains the intracellular environment of stable metabolism, but also regulates and selects substances to enter and exit the cell, ensuring the relative stability of the intracellular environment and enabling various biochemical reactions to run in an orderly manner. Functionally, the cell membrane is closely related to important life activities such as cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, endocytosis, apoptosis and signal transduction. Changes in the state of the cell membrane can reflect the process of various biochemical reactions in the cell and changes in cell activity to a certain extent, so the study of the structure and function of the cell membrane can ob...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] Currently commonly used cell membrane fluorescent dyes (such as DiD family, FM family, and CellMask, etc.) are not ideal for imaging, and they face many problems such as easy endocytosis by cells, insufficient fluorescence stability, and incompatibility with immunofluorescence staining.

Secondly, the imaging effect of most commercially available cell membrane dyes cannot be maintained for a long time, and they are easily absorbed by cells or shed from cells, which cannot meet the needs of long-term cell membrane staining and observation.

[0004] In addition, current commercial membrane dyes are difficult to achieve membrane / wall imaging of bacterial and fungal cells

Finally, most of the existing cell membrane dyes can only realize the imaging of cultured cells in vitro, but cannot realize the cell membrane imaging of cells in vivo (such as zebrafish embryonic epidermal cells)

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