Synthesis of coumarin derivatives as fluorescent probes for membrane and cell dynamics studies

Olimpo García-Beltrán, Osvaldo Yañez, Julio Caballero, Antonio Galdámez, Natalia Mena, Marco T. Nuñez, Bruce K. Cassels

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Abstract

Three coumarin-derived fluorescent probes, 3-acetyl-7-[(6-bromohexyl)oxy]- 2H-chromen-2-one (FM1), 7-[(6-bromohexyl)oxy]-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one (FM2) and ethyl 2-{7-[(6-bromohexyl)oxy]-2-oxo-2H-chromen-4-yl}acetate (FM3), are described, with their photophysical constants. The compounds were tested in preliminary studies employing epifluorescence microscopy demonstrating that they allow the imaging of human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell membranes. The structure of FM3 was confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to characterize the localization and interactions of the studied compounds with a lipid bilayer model of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero- 3-phosphocholine (POPC).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)79-86
Number of pages8
JournalEuropean Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume76
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 9 2014

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Millennium Scientific Initiative (Grant P05-001-F ) and FONDECYT Grant # 1130141 . The authors thank Dr. M. Rosario Torres of the CAI Difracción de rayos-X, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, for the intensity data collection.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Pharmacology
  • Drug Discovery
  • Organic Chemistry

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