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Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging

Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
  1. Departments of *Chemistry and
  2. †Molecular and Cell Biology and
  3. ‡Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; and
  4. §The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720

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PNAS October 23, 2007 104 (43) 16793-16797; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707090104
Jeremy M. Baskin
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  • For correspondence: crb@berkeley.edu
  1. Edited by Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University, New York, NY, and approved September 7, 2007 (received for review July 27, 2007)

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Abstract

Dynamic imaging of proteins in live cells is routinely performed by using genetically encoded reporters, an approach that cannot be extended to other classes of biomolecules such as glycans and lipids. Here, we report a Cu-free variant of click chemistry that can label these biomolecules rapidly and selectively in living systems, overcoming the intrinsic toxicity of the canonical Cu-catalyzed reaction. The critical reagent, a substituted cyclooctyne, possesses ring strain and electron-withdrawing fluorine substituents that together promote the [3 + 2] dipolar cycloaddition with azides installed metabolically into biomolecules. This Cu-free click reaction possesses comparable kinetics to the Cu-catalyzed reaction and proceeds within minutes on live cells with no apparent toxicity. With this technique, we studied the dynamics of glycan trafficking and identified a population of sialoglycoconjugates with unexpectedly rapid internalization kinetics.

  • azide
  • bioorthogonal reaction
  • cyclooctyne glycan trafficking
  • molecular imaging

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  • ¶To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
    Department of Chemistry, B84 Hildebrand Hall, #1460, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
    E-mail: crb{at}berkeley.edu
  • Author contributions: J.M.B., J.A.P., S.T.L., N.J.A., P.V.C., I.A.M., and C.R.B. designed research; J.M.B., J.A.P., S.T.L., N.J.A., P.V.C., I.A.M., A.L., and J.A.C. performed research; J.M.B., J.A.P., S.T.L., N.J.A., P.V.C., I.A.M., and C.R.B. analyzed data; and J.M.B. and C.R.B. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0707090104/DC1.

  • Abbreviations:
    DIFO,
    difluorinated cyclooctyne;
    DHFR,
    dihydrofolate reductase;
    SiaNAz,
    azido sialic acid;
    Ac4ManNAz peracetylated,
    N-azidoacetylmannosamine;
    Ac4ManNAc,
    peracetylated N-acetylmannosamine.
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Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2007, 104 (43) 16793-16797; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104

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Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2007, 104 (43) 16793-16797; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104
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