Picosecond rotation of small polar fluorophores in the cytosol of sea urchin eggs.
Picosecond rotation of small polar fluorophores in the cytosol of sea urchin eggs.
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海胆卵细胞质中小极性荧光团的皮秒旋转。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00115a600
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发表时间:
1991
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Verkman,AS
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文献类型:
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作者:
Periasamy,N;Armijo,M;Verkman,AS
MethodsEgg Isolation and Fluorescence Labeling. Sea urchins (L. pictus) were purchased from Pacific Biomarine Laboratories (Venice, CA) and maintained in a sea water aquarium at 16 C. Ovulation of gametes was induced by intracoelomic injection of 0.5 Mkc1 (Johnson & Epel, 1975). Extracellular jelly was removed byswirling for 1 min in acidified sea water at pH 5 followed by three to four rinses in filtered sea water at pH 8. The temperature was maintained at 20-22 C throughout the experiments. The fluorophores 2, 7-bis (2-carboxyethyl)-5-(and-6-)-carboxyfluorescein acetoxymethyl ester (BCECF-AM), 6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate (6CF-DA), calcein acetoxymethyl ester (calcein-AM), and fluorescein were purchased from Molecular Probes (Junction City, OR). Eggs were labeled by a 5-10-min incubation with 5 mM BCECF-AM, 6CF-DA, or calcein-AM in filtered sea water (pH 8) at22 C, or by a 5-10-min incubation with 1 mM fluorescein in sea water titrated to pH 6 with HC1. Extracellular fluorophore was removed by rinsing in sea water at pH 8. Experiments were carried out within 10 min after labeling, at which time no fluorophore leakage was observed. Time-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy Experiments. Fluorescence measurements were carried out byparallel ac-quisition frequency-domain fluorometry (Verkman et al., 1991). Theexcitation source was a 4-W CW Ar laser oper-ating at 488 nm. Light was impulse modulated by a Pockel’s cell and components of an SLM48000 multiharmonic fluo-rometer (SLM Instruments, Urbana, IL) to give a 4-7-MHz train of 1-2-ns pulses of polarized light. Approximately 4%