Photo‐Responsive Phase‐Separating Fluorescent Molecules for Intracellular Protein Delivery

Abstract: Cellular membranes, including the plasma and endosome membranes, are barriers to outside proteins. Various vehicles have been devised to deliver proteins across the plasma membrane, but in many cases, the payload gets trapped in the endosome. Here we designed a photo‐responsive phase‐separating fluorescent molecule (PPFM) with a molecular weight of 666.8 daltons. The PPFM compound condensates as fluorescent droplets in the aqueous solution by liquid‐liquid phase separation (LLPS), which disintegrate upon photoirradiation with a 405 nm light‐emitting diode (LED) lamp within 20 min or a 405 nm laser within 3 min. The PPFM coacervates recruit a wide range of peptides and proteins and deliver them into mammalian cells. Photolysis disperses the payload from condensates into the cytosolic space. Altogether, a type of small molecules that are photo‐responsive and phase separating are discovered; their coacervates can serve as transmembrane vehicles for intracellular delivery of proteins, whereas photo illumination triggers the cytosolic distribution of the payload.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Photo‐Responsive Phase‐Separating Fluorescent Molecules for Intracellular Protein Delivery ; day:11 ; month:09 ; year:2023 ; extent:8
Angewandte Chemie ; (11.09.2023) (gesamt 8)

Urheber
Bao, Yishu
Chen, Hongfei
Xu, Zhiyi
Gao, Jiayang
Jiang, Liwen
Xia, Jiang

DOI
10.1002/ange.202307045
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023091215104986487025
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  • Bao, Yishu
  • Chen, Hongfei
  • Xu, Zhiyi
  • Gao, Jiayang
  • Jiang, Liwen
  • Xia, Jiang

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