A novel fluorescent probe with large Stokes shift for the detection of viscosity changes and its imaging in living cells |
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| Authors: | Rui Guo Yonghe Tang Liang Zhang Qian Hu Qing Liu Shushun Cai Weiying Lin |
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| Institution: | Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Institute of Optical Materials and Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Non-ferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metals and Featured Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China |
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| Abstract: | As an important cellular microenvironmental parameter, viscosity could reflect the status of living cells. Small molecular fluorescent probes are a vital tool to measure the change of viscosity in living cells. A novel fluorescence probe ZL-1 with a large Stokes shift (in methanol it reached to 153 nm and in glycerol it reached to 125 nm) and excellent sensitivity toward viscosity was developed. The sharp enhancement of the emission intensity for the probe ZL-1 from low viscous methanol to high viscous glycerol indicated that the probe ZL-1 could respond to the viscosity variations. Moreover, the probe ZL-1 has been successfully utilized to detect of the viscosity variations in living cells. |
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| Keywords: | fluorescent probe glycerol living cells viscosity |
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