期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2018
卷号:115
期号:25
页码:E5706-E5715
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1717724115
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:The stability of organic dyes against photobleaching is critical in single-molecule tracking and localization microscopy. Since oxygen accelerates photobleaching of most organic dyes, glucose oxidase is commonly used to slow dye photobleaching by depleting oxygen. As demonstrated here, pyranose-2-oxidase slows bleaching of Alexa647 dye by ∼20-fold. However, oxygen deprivation may pose severe problems for live cells by reducing mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production. We formulate a method to sustain intracellular ATP levels in the presence of oxygen scavengers. Supplementation with metabolic intermediates including glyceraldehyde, glutamine, and α-ketoisocaproate maintained the intracellular ATP level for at least 10 min by balancing between FADH2 and NADH despite reduced oxygen levels. Furthermore, those metabolites supported ATP-dependent synthesis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and internalization of PAR2 receptors. Our method is potentially relevant to other circumstances that involve acute drops of oxygen levels, such as ischemic damage in the brain or heart or tissues for transplantation.