Abstract
Arsenic compounds have shown medical usefulness since they proved to be effective in causing complete remission of acute promyelocytic leukemia. In this work we obtained a fluorescently labeled arsenic compound that can be used with current fluorescence techniques for basic and applied research, focused on arsenic-induced apoptosis studies. This compound is an arsanilic acid bearing a covalently linked FITC that was chemically synthesized and characterized by fluorescence, UV-Vis, mass and FTIR spectrometry. In addition, we assessed its apoptotic activity as well as its fluorescent labeling properties in HL60 cell line as a leukemia cell model through flow cytometry. We obtained a compound with a 1:1 FITC:arsenic ratio and a 595 m/z, confirming its structure by FTIR. This compound proved to be useful at inducing apoptosis in the leukemia cell model and labeling this apoptotic cell population, in such a way that the highest FITC fluorescence correlated with the highest arsenic amount.
Keywords: Apoptosis, arsanilic acid, arsenic compounds, fluorescein, fluorescence techniques, leukemia, spectrometry, FTIR, HL60
Medicinal Chemistry
Title:Synthesis of a Fluorescently Labeled Compound for the Detection of Arsenic-induced Apoptotic HL60 Cells
Volume: 8 Issue: 2
Author(s): A. Lis Femia, C. Facundo Temprana, M. Silvia Amor, Mariano Grasselli, Silvia del V. Alonso
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Keywords: Apoptosis, arsanilic acid, arsenic compounds, fluorescein, fluorescence techniques, leukemia, spectrometry, FTIR, HL60
Abstract: Arsenic compounds have shown medical usefulness since they proved to be effective in causing complete remission of acute promyelocytic leukemia. In this work we obtained a fluorescently labeled arsenic compound that can be used with current fluorescence techniques for basic and applied research, focused on arsenic-induced apoptosis studies. This compound is an arsanilic acid bearing a covalently linked FITC that was chemically synthesized and characterized by fluorescence, UV-Vis, mass and FTIR spectrometry. In addition, we assessed its apoptotic activity as well as its fluorescent labeling properties in HL60 cell line as a leukemia cell model through flow cytometry. We obtained a compound with a 1:1 FITC:arsenic ratio and a 595 m/z, confirming its structure by FTIR. This compound proved to be useful at inducing apoptosis in the leukemia cell model and labeling this apoptotic cell population, in such a way that the highest FITC fluorescence correlated with the highest arsenic amount.
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A. Lis Femia, C. Facundo Temprana, M. Silvia Amor, Mariano Grasselli, Silvia del V. Alonso , Synthesis of a Fluorescently Labeled Compound for the Detection of Arsenic-induced Apoptotic HL60 Cells, Medicinal Chemistry 2012; 8 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340612800493584
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340612800493584 |
Print ISSN 1573-4064 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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