2022 journal article
A puromycin-dependent activity-based sensing probe for histochemical staining of hydrogen peroxide in cells and animal tissues
Nature Protocols.
MeSH headings : Animals; Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry; Hydrogen Peroxide / analysis; Mice; Oxidation-Reduction; Signal Transduction; Staining and Labeling
TL;DR:
An optimized two-step, one-pot protocol for synthesizing Peroxymycin-1, an activity-based histochemical probe for hydrogen peroxide detection in fixed cell and mouse tissue samples with improved yields over the originally reported procedure.
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Added: May 15, 2022
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a key member of the reactive oxygen species family of transient small molecules that has broad contributions to oxidative stress and redox signaling. The development of selective and sensitive chemical probes can enable the study of H2O2 biology in cell, tissue and animal models. Peroxymycin-1 is a histochemical activity-based sensing probe that responds to H2O2 via chemoselective boronate oxidation to release puromycin, which is then covalently incorporated into nascent proteins by the ribosome and can be detected by antibody staining. Here, we describe an optimized two-step, one-pot protocol for synthesizing Peroxymycin-1 with improved yields over our originally reported procedure. We also present detailed procedures for applying Peroxymycin-1 to a broad range of biological samples spanning cells to animal tissues for profiling H2O2 levels through histochemical detection by using commercially available anti-puromycin antibodies. The preparation of Peroxymycin-1 takes 9 h, the confocal imaging experiments of endogenous H2O2 levels across different cancer cell lines take 1 d, the dot blot analysis of mouse liver tissues takes 1 d and the confocal imaging of mouse liver tissues takes 3-4 d.