title: Imaging ROS signaling in cells and animals.
abstract: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as essential cellular messengers, redox regulators, and, when in excess, oxidative stressors that are widely implicated in pathologies of cancer and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding such complexity of the ROS signaling is critically hinged on the ability to visualize and quantify local, compartmental, and global ROS dynamics at high selectivity, sensitivity, and spatiotemporal resolution. The past decade has witnessed significant progress in ROS imaging at levels of intact cells, whole organs or tissues, and even live organisms. In particular, major advances include the development of novel synthetic or genetically encoded fluorescent protein-based ROS indicators, the use of protein indicator-expressing animal models, and the advent of in vivo imaging technology. Innovative ROS imaging has led to important discoveries in ROS signaling-for example, mitochondrial superoxide flashes as elemental ROS signaling events and hydrogen peroxide transients for wound healing. This review aims at providing an update of the current status in ROS imaging, while identifying areas of insufficient knowledge and highlighting emerging research directions.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Xianhua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Huaqiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Zhanglong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.forename: Tingting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Aiwu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Heping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006801:Humans; D057054:Molecular Imaging; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species