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ArticleBiosensors2023

A Comparative Study on Cyanine Dyestuffs as Sensor Candidates for Macromolecular Crowding In Vitro and In Vivo.

Leon Koch, Roland Pollak, Simon Ebbinghaus, Klaus Huber

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Article in Biosensors, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leon KochPhysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.
Roland PollakPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Live Science, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-3990-0668
Simon EbbinghausPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Live Science, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Klaus HuberPhysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7512-206X
Paderborn University · DETechnische Universität Braunschweig · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft HU 807/20-1, EB 482/3-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudo isocyanine chloride (PIC) has been identified in a preceding work as a sensor suited to probe macromolecular crowding both in test tubes with solutions of synthetic crowding agents and in HeLa cells as a representative of living systems. The sensing is based on a delicate response of the self-assembly pattern of PIC towards a variation in macromolecular crowding. Based on a suitable selection of criteria established in the present study, four additional cyanine dyestuffs (TDBC, S071, S2275, and PCYN) were scrutinized for their ability to act as such a sensor, and the results were compared with the corresponding performance of PIC. UV-VIS and fluorescence spectroscopy were applied to investigate the photo-physical properties of the four candidates and, if possible, light scattering was used to characterize the self-assembly of the dyestuffs in solution. Finally, HeLa cells were exposed to solutions of the most promising candidates in order to analyze their ability to infiltrate the cells and to self-assemble therein. None of the dyestuff candidates turned out to be as similarly promising in probing crowding effects in cells as PIC turned out to be. S0271 and S2275 are at least stable enough and meet the photophysical requirements necessary to act as sensors responding to changes in macromolecular crowding.

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HeLa CellsHumansMacromolecular SubstancesSpectrometry, FluorescenceMacromolecular Substancesconfocal microscopycyanine dyestuffsfluorescenceHeLa cellsmacromolecular crowdingself-assemblysensor

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PMID37504118
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