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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 79-86 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
Volume | 76 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 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