Visualizing Inducible Nitric-Oxide Synthase in Living Cells with a Heme-Binding Fluorescent Inhibitor
The study of nitric-oxide synthase (NOS) physiology is constrained by the lack of suitable probes to detect NOS in living cells or animals. Here, we characterized a fluorescent inducible NOS (iNOS) inhibitor called PIF (pyrimidine imidazole FITC) and examined its utility for microscopic imaging of i...
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Published in | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 102; no. 29; pp. 10117 - 10122 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
National Academy of Sciences
19.07.2005
National Acad Sciences |
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Summary: | The study of nitric-oxide synthase (NOS) physiology is constrained by the lack of suitable probes to detect NOS in living cells or animals. Here, we characterized a fluorescent inducible NOS (iNOS) inhibitor called PIF (pyrimidine imidazole FITC) and examined its utility for microscopic imaging of iNOS in living cells. PIF binding to iNOS displayed high affinity, isoform selectivity, and heme specificity, and was essentially irreversible. PIF was used to successfully image iNOS expressed in RAW264.7 cells, HEK293T cells, human A549 epithelial cells, and freshly obtained human lung epithelium. PIF was used to estimate a half-life for iNOS of 1.8 h in HEK293T cells. Our work reveals that fluorescent probes like PIF will be valuable for studying iNOS cell biology and in understanding the pathophysiology of diseases that involve dysfunctional iNOS expression. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 Edited by Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and approved May 9, 2005 To whom correspondence may be addressed at: Department of Immunology, NB3, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195. E-mail: pandak@ccf.org or stuehrd@ccf.org. Abbreviations: H4B, (6R)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-l-biopterin; NO, nitric oxide; NOS, nitric-oxide synthase; eNOS, endothelial NOS; iNOS, inducible NOS; nNOS, neuronal NOS; PI, pyrimidine imidazole; PIF, PI FITC; RAW, RAW264.7; RFP, red fluorescent protein; SA, succinyl acetone. This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office. Author contributions: K.P. and D.J.S. designed research; K.P., M.C.-S., and T.K. performed research; S.C.E. and J.F.P. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; K.P., M.C.-S., and D.J.S. analyzed data; and K.P. and D.J.S. wrote the paper. |
ISSN: | 0027-8424 1091-6490 |
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.0408972102 |