Mito-FerroGreen

Description

Iron is the most abundant transition metal element within an organism and shows various physiological activities. Recently, free iron in living cells is getting attention because its high reactivity is suggested to be related to cellular damage or death. Free iron exists in its stable redox states, ferrous ion (Fe2+) and ferric ion (Fe3+). In living cells, it is considered that understanding the behavior of Fe2+ is more important than that of Fe3+ because of the intracellular reductive environment, metal transporters and water solubility of Fe2+.

Mito-FerroGreen is a novel fluorescent probe for the detection of ferrous ion (Fe2+) in mitochondria where Fe-S clusters and heme proteins are synthesized, and enables live cell fluorescent imaging of intracellular Fe2+.