title: Live Cell Imaging and Profiling of Cysteine Cathepsin Activity Using a Quenched Activity-Based Probe.
abstract: Since protease activity is highly regulated by structural and environmental influences, the abundance of a protease often does not directly correlate with its activity. Because in most of the cases it is the activity of a protease that gives rise to its biological relevance, tools to report on this activity are of great value to the research community. Activity-based probes (ABPs) are small molecule tools that allow for the monitoring and profiling of protease activities in complex biological systems. The class of fluorescent quenched ABPs (qABPs), being intrinsically "dark" and only emitting fluorescence after reaction with the target protease, are ideally suited for imaging techniques such as small animal noninvasive fluorescence imaging and live cell fluorescence microscopy. An additional powerful characteristic of qABPs is their covalent and irreversible modification of the labeled protease, enabling in-depth target characterization. Here we describe the synthesis of a pan-cysteine cathepsin qABP BMV109 and the application of this probe to live cell fluorescence imaging and fluorescent SDS-PAGE cysteine cathepsin activity profiling.
authors: Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 RoyalParade, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
authors: Laura E
authors: LE
authors: Edgington-Mitchell
authors: Departments of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5324, USA.|Cancer Biology Program, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5324, USA.|Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5324, USA.
authors: Matthew
authors: M
authors: Bogyo
authors: Department of Tumor Immunology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, RadboudUMC, Geert Grooteplein 26/28, 6525, GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands. martijn.verdoes@radboudumc.nl.
authors: Martijn
authors: M
authors: Verdoes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002403:Cathepsins / Q000737:chemistry*; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D002403:Cathepsins; D003545:Cysteine
keywords: Activity-based probe; Cysteine cathepsin; Fluorescent SDS-PAGE; Live cell imaging; Protease