Fluorescent in vivo imaging of reactive oxygen species and redox potential in plants

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are by-products of aerobic metabolism, and excessive production can result in oxidative stress and cell damage. In addition, ROS function as cellular messengers, working as redox regulators in a multitude of biological processes. Understanding ROS signalling and stress...

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Autores: Ortega Villasante, Cristina, Burén, Stefan, Blázquez Castro, Alfonso, Barón-Sola, Ángel, Hernández Rodríguez, Luis Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/688783
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/688783
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.04.005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fluorescent probes
Plant
Protein biosensors
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)
Redox signalling
In vivo detection
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Sumario:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are by-products of aerobic metabolism, and excessive production can result in oxidative stress and cell damage. In addition, ROS function as cellular messengers, working as redox regulators in a multitude of biological processes. Understanding ROS signalling and stress responses requires methods for precise imaging and quantification to monitor local, subcellular and global ROS dynamics with high selectivity, sensitivity and spatiotemporal resolution. In this review, we summarize the present knowledge for in vivo plant ROS imaging and detection, using both chemical probes and fluorescent protein-based biosensors. Certain characteristics of plant tissues, for example high background autofluorescence in photosynthetic organs and the multitude of endogenous antioxidants, can interfere with ROS and redox potential detection, making imaging extra challenging. Novel methods and techniques to measure in vivo plant ROS and redox changes with better selectivity, accuracy, and spatiotemporal resolution are therefore desirable to fully acknowledge the remarkably complex plant ROS signalling networks