Issue 13, 2015

A cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometer for the ratiometric sensing of intracellular temperature

Abstract

We developed new cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometers containing both benzothiadiazole and BODIPY units as an environment-sensitive fluorophore and as a reference fluorophore, respectively. The temperature-dependent fluorescence spectra of the thermometers enabled us to perform highly sensitive and practical ratiometric temperature sensing inside living mammalian cells. Intracellular temperatures of non-adherent MOLT-4 (human acute lymphoblastic leukaemia) and adherent HEK293T (human embryonic kidney) cells could be monitored with high temperature resolutions (0.01–1.0 °C) using the new cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometer.

Graphical abstract: A cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometer for the ratiometric sensing of intracellular temperature

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Mar 2015
Accepted
01 May 2015
First published
01 May 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Analyst, 2015,140, 4498-4506

A cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometer for the ratiometric sensing of intracellular temperature

S. Uchiyama, T. Tsuji, K. Ikado, A. Yoshida, K. Kawamoto, T. Hayashi and N. Inada, Analyst, 2015, 140, 4498 DOI: 10.1039/C5AN00420A

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