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中国物理学会期刊

活细胞应激反应过程中线粒体和核仁微环境动力学的荧光寿命成像研究

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.73.20231990

Fluorescence lifetime imaging of dynamics of mitochondrial and nucleolar microenvironment during stimuli response in living cells

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.73.20231990
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  • 核仁和线粒体在维持细胞平衡发挥重要作用, 研究其生理过程有助于深入了解生物学功能. 本文采用一种红色荧光的芘罗丹明荧光探针在不同条件下靶向标记细胞线粒体和核仁. 通过激光共聚焦成像和荧光寿命成像技术分析HeLa细胞在光照和药物刺激下细胞凋亡的形态变化, 并利用相图定量分析了线粒体与核仁的微环境变化, 确定在稳态HeLa细胞中探针标记到的线粒体的平均荧光寿命约为3.65 ns, 线粒体黏度约为66×10–3 Pa·s. 在激光光照后, 探针标记到HeLa细胞线粒体的荧光寿命降至3.61 ns, 对应线粒体黏度增至约131×10–3 Pa·s; 使用紫杉醇和秋水仙碱诱导细胞凋亡, 观察到探针标记于HeLa细胞核仁的荧光寿命先增加后降低, 反映了在HeLa细胞凋亡过程中核仁微环境的变化, 证明HeLa细胞在非稳态情况下核仁和线粒体的功能变化, 为线粒体和核仁功能障碍相关疾病研究提供了新的研究方法.

     

    Nucleolus and mitochondria play an important role in maintaining cell balance, and studying their physiological processes is helpful in understanding the biological functions. In this work, a red fluorescent pyrene rhodamine probe is used to target and label cell mitochondria and nucleolus under different conditions, and the binding mode of probe and RNA is also clarified by bio-computational simulation results. Confocal laser scanning microscopy is used to analyze the morphological changes of apoptosis in HeLa cells under the action of laser light, paclitaxel and colchicine, and the changes of microenvironment between mitochondria and nucleolus are quantitatively analyzed by fluorescence lifetime imaging phase map. It is determined that the average fluorescence lifetime of the probe labeled mitochondria in steady-state HeLa cells is about 3.65 ns. The mitochondrial viscosity is about 66×10–3 Pa·s. After laser irradiation, mitochondrial fracture and fusion occur, the fluorescence lifetime of the probe decreases to 3.61 ns and the mitochondrial viscosity increases to about 131×10–3 Pa·s. The mean fluorescence lifetime of the probe labeled nucleolus of HeLa cells increases from 4.23 ns to 4.32 ns, indicating that the changes of the nucleolus microenvironment is induced by prolonging laser irradiation. Apoptosis is induced by paclitaxel and colchicine, and the nucleolus moves out of the nucleus and into the cytoplasm. Meanwhile, the fluorescence lifetime of the probe labeled nucleolus first increases and then decreases. The treatment time of paclitaxel increases from 0.5 h to 4 h, and the average lifetime of the probe labeled nucleolus of HeLa cells increases from 4.19 ns to 4.47 ns, and finally decreases to 4.42 ns, reflecting the differences in nucleolar microenvironment of HeLa cells induced by different treatment times of paclitaxel. Comparing with the blank HeLa cell, the average lifetime of the probe increases from 4.10 ns to 4.34 ns after 1 h treatment with colchicine at low concentration (10 nmol/L), and continuously increases to 4.47 ns after 1 h treatment with high concentration (100 nmol/L) colchicine. The microenvironments of nucleolus and mitochondria induced by apoptosis induced by colchicine at different concentrations are shown. The above three ways of inducing injury or apoptosis, i.e. by laser light, paclitaxel and colchicine, prove that the changes of nucleolar and mitochondrial microenvironment and functional changes of HeLa cells under the condition of cell instability provide a new method of studying the dynamic process of apoptosis induced by different pathways and the diseases related to nucleolar and mitochondrial dysfunction as well.

     

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