Discovery of a Highly Selective Caspase-3 Substrate for Imaging Live Cells
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- 作者：Chris J. Vickers ; Gonzalo E. Gonz谩lez-P谩ez ; Dennis W. Wolan
- 刊名：ACS Chemical Biology
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：October 17, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：9
- 期：10
- 页码：2199-2203
- 全文大小：385K
- ISSN：1554-8937
文摘
Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that are well-known for their roles in apoptosis and inflammation. Recent studies provide evidence that caspases are also integral to many additional cellular processes, such as differentiation and proliferation. Likewise, aberrant caspase activity has been implicated in the progression of several diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and sepsis. These observations establish the importance of caspases to a diverse array of physiological functions and future endeavors will undoubtedly continue to elucidate additional processes that require caspase activity. Unfortunately, the existence of 11 functional human caspases, with overlapping substrate specificities, confounds the ability to confidently assign one or more isoforms to biological phenomena. Herein, we characterize a first-in-class FRET substrate that is selectively recognized by active caspase-3 over other initiator and executioner caspases. We further apply this substrate to specifically image caspase-3 activity in live cells undergoing apoptosis.