High throughput fluorimetric assessment of iron traffic and chelation in iron-overloaded Caenorhabditis elegans

Breno Pannia Espósito; Airton Cunha Martins; Rodrigo Rodrigues Victor de Carvalho; Michael Aschner

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High throughput fluorimetric assessment of iron traffic and chelation in iron-overloaded Caenorhabditis elegans

Breno Pannia Espósito, Airton Cunha Martins, Rodrigo Rodrigues Victor de Carvalho, Michael Aschner

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Abstract

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a convenient tool to evaluate iron metabolism as it shares great orthology with human proteins involved in iron transport, in addition to being transparent and readily available. In this work, we describe how wild-type (N2) C. elegans nematodes in the first larval stage can be loaded with acetomethoxycalcein (CAL-AM) and study it as a whole-organism model for both iron speciation and chelator permeability of the labile iron pool (LIP). This model may be relevant for high throughput assessment of molecules intended for chelation therapy of iron overload diseases.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	255-267
Number of pages	13
Journal	BioMetals
Volume	33
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10534-020-00250-4
State	Published - Oct 1 2020

Keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans
Calcein
Chelator
Copper
Desferrioxamine
Fluorescence
Iron

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Biomaterials
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Metals and Alloys

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