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Design and properties of a fluorescent indicator of intracellular free Na+ concentration.

ABSTRACT: We have recently described a cryptand structure, FCryp-1, with appropriate properties for an indicator of intracellular free Na+ concentration using the 19F-n.m.r. chemical shift of the incorporated 5FBAPTA [1,2-bis-(2-amino-5-fluorophenoxy)ethane-NNN'N'-tetra-acetic acid] reporter group to measure the free cytosolic Na+ concentration [( Na+]i) [Smith, Morris, Hesketh and Metcalfe (1986) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 889, 82-83]. FCryp-1 carries four carboxylate groups to confer aqueous solubility and the indicator is membrane-permeant when the carboxyls are esterified with acetoxymethyl ester groups. Here we describe the synthesis of FCryp-2 to provide a fluorescent indicator of [Na+]i. FCryp-2 retains the parent tribenzo (2:2:1) cryptand structure of FCryp-1, in which the benzenoid ring at C-21 in FCryp-1 is replaced by an indole derivative which acts as the fluorophor in FCryp-2. With excitation at 340 nm, FCryp-2 gives an emission maximum at 460 nm in the absence of Na+ which shifts to 395 nm when FCryp-2 is saturated with Na+, with an isosbestic point at 455 nm. The apparent dissociation constant of FCryp-2 in a buffer solution of 100 mM-KCl/20 mM-KH2PO4/K2HPO4, pH 7.0, at 37 degrees C is 6.0 mM and the free Na+ concentration can be measured either from the calibrated fluorescence intensity at 395 nm, which increases 25-fold when Na+ is bound to FCryp-2, or from the ratio of fluorescence intensities at 395 nm and 455 nm. The measurement of free [Na+] by either method is unaffected by K+, Ca2+ or Mg2+ in the normal intracellular concentration ranges. Free [Na+] measurements by the ratio method are unaffected by pH from 6.6 to 7.6.

SUBMITTER: Smith GA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1148837 | biostudies-other | 1988 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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