Abstract
Imaging glycans in vivo has recently been enabled using a bioorthogonal chemical reporter strategy by treating cells or organisms with azide- or alkyne-tagged monosaccharides. The modified monosaccharides, processed by the glycan biosynthetic machinery, are incorporated into cell surface glycoconjugates. The bioorthogonal azide or alkyne tags then allow covalent conjugation with fluorescent probes for visualization, or with affinity probes for enrichment and glycoproteomic analysis. This protocol describes the procedures typically used for noninvasive imaging of fucosylated glycans in zebrafish embryos, including: 1) microinjection of one-cell stage embryos with GDP-5-alkynylfucose (GDP-FucAl), 2) labeling fucosylated glycans in the enveloping layer of zebrafish embryos with azide-conjugated fluorophores via biocompatible Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), and 3) imaging by confocal microscopy. The method described here can be readily extended to visualize other classes of glycans, e.g. glycans containing sialic acid and N-acetylgalactosamine, in developing zebrafish and in other living organisms.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Journal | Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE |
| Issue number | 52 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Imaging glycans in zebrafish embryos by metabolic labeling and bioorthogonal click chemistry. / Jiang, Hao; Feng, Lei; Soriano del Amo, David; Seidel, Ronald D.; Marlow, Florence; Wu, Peng.
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T1 - Imaging glycans in zebrafish embryos by metabolic labeling and bioorthogonal click chemistry.
AU - Jiang, Hao
AU - Feng, Lei
AU - Soriano del Amo, David
AU - Seidel, Ronald D.
AU - Marlow, Florence
AU - Wu, Peng
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Imaging glycans in vivo has recently been enabled using a bioorthogonal chemical reporter strategy by treating cells or organisms with azide- or alkyne-tagged monosaccharides. The modified monosaccharides, processed by the glycan biosynthetic machinery, are incorporated into cell surface glycoconjugates. The bioorthogonal azide or alkyne tags then allow covalent conjugation with fluorescent probes for visualization, or with affinity probes for enrichment and glycoproteomic analysis. This protocol describes the procedures typically used for noninvasive imaging of fucosylated glycans in zebrafish embryos, including: 1) microinjection of one-cell stage embryos with GDP-5-alkynylfucose (GDP-FucAl), 2) labeling fucosylated glycans in the enveloping layer of zebrafish embryos with azide-conjugated fluorophores via biocompatible Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), and 3) imaging by confocal microscopy. The method described here can be readily extended to visualize other classes of glycans, e.g. glycans containing sialic acid and N-acetylgalactosamine, in developing zebrafish and in other living organisms.
AB - Imaging glycans in vivo has recently been enabled using a bioorthogonal chemical reporter strategy by treating cells or organisms with azide- or alkyne-tagged monosaccharides. The modified monosaccharides, processed by the glycan biosynthetic machinery, are incorporated into cell surface glycoconjugates. The bioorthogonal azide or alkyne tags then allow covalent conjugation with fluorescent probes for visualization, or with affinity probes for enrichment and glycoproteomic analysis. This protocol describes the procedures typically used for noninvasive imaging of fucosylated glycans in zebrafish embryos, including: 1) microinjection of one-cell stage embryos with GDP-5-alkynylfucose (GDP-FucAl), 2) labeling fucosylated glycans in the enveloping layer of zebrafish embryos with azide-conjugated fluorophores via biocompatible Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), and 3) imaging by confocal microscopy. The method described here can be readily extended to visualize other classes of glycans, e.g. glycans containing sialic acid and N-acetylgalactosamine, in developing zebrafish and in other living organisms.
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