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Abstract
Realizing the significant roles of vicinal-dithiol proteins (VDPs) in maintaining the cellular redox homeostasis and their implication in many diseases, we synthesized a smart arsenate based fluorescent probe 1 which can preferentially target the mitochondrial membrane-bound vicinal dithiol proteins (VDPs), especially voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC2). The probe targetability was demonstrated by in vitro studies such as colocalization, stimulated emission depletion (STED) super-resolution imaging, proteomic MS/MS analysis, and Western blot analysis. The probe represents a rare example of fluorescence labeling of mitochondrial membrane-bound VDPs and can provide a new way to construct VDPs-specific fluorescent probes to gain deeper understanding of their roles in mitochondrial-related disorders.

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Yang Z1,2, Kang DH3, Lee H4, Shin J2, Yan W1, Rathore B1, Kim HR4, Kim SJ4, Singh H2, Liu L1, Qu J1, Kang C4, Kim JS1,2.
1
Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering , Shenzhen University , Shenzhen , Guangdong 518060 , China.
2
Department of Chemistry , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Korea.
3
Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine , University of Ulsan , Seoul 138-736 , Korea.
4
The School of East-West Medical Science , Kyung Hee University , Yongin , Gyeonggi-do 17104 , Korea.