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Luminescent Ru(II) Phenanthroline Complexes as a Probe for Real-Time Imaging of Aβ Self-Aggregation and Therapeutic Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease

2016; American Chemical Society; Volume: 59; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01130

1520-4804

Débora E.S. Silva, Mariana P. Cali, Wallance Moreira Pazin, Estêvão Carlos-Lima, M. Trevisan, Tiago Venâncio, Manoel Arcisio‐Miranda, Amando Siuiti Ito, Rose Maria Carlos,

Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection

The complexes cis-[Ru(phen)2(Apy)2]2+, Apy = 4-aminopyridine and 3,4-aminopyridine, are stable in aqueous solution with strong visible absorption. They present emission in the visible region with long lifetime that accumulates in the cytoplasm of Neuro2A cell line without appreciable cytotoxicity. The complexes also serve as mixed-type reversible inhibitors of human AChE and BuChE with high active site contact. cis-[Ru(phen)2(3,4Apy)2]2+ competes efficiently with DMPO by the OH• radical. Luminescence using fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) enables real-time imaging of the conformational changes of the self-aggregation of Aβ with incubation of complexes (0-24 h) in phosphate buffer at micromolar concentrations. By this technique, we identified protofibrills in the self-assembly of Aβ1-40 and globular structures in the short fragment Aβ15-21 in aqueous solution.