Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Cell. 2022 May 12;185(10):1793-1805.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.03.040. Epub 2022 Apr 27.
The lack of tools to observe drug-target interactions at cellular resolution in intact tissue has been a major barrier to understanding in vivo drug actions. Here, we develop clearing-assisted tissue click chemistry (CATCH) to optically image covalent drug targets in intact mammalian tissues. CATCH permits specific and robust in situ fluorescence imaging of target-bound drug molecules at subcellular resolution and enables the identification of target cell types. Using well-established inhibitors of endocannabinoid hydrolases and monoamine oxidases, direct or competitive CATCH not only reveals distinct anatomical distributions and predominant cell targets of different drug compounds in the mouse brain but also uncovers unexpected differences in drug engagement across and within brain regions, reflecting rare cell types, as well as dose-dependent target shifts across tissue, cellular, and subcellular compartments that are not accessible by conventional methods. CATCH represents a valuable platform for visualizing in vivo interactions of small molecules in tissue.
在完整组织中以细胞分辨率观察药物-靶相互作用的工具的缺乏一直是理解体内药物作用的主要障碍。在这里,我们开发了清除辅助组织点击化学(CATCH)技术,以对完整哺乳动物组织中的共价药物靶标进行光学成像。CATCH 允许以亚细胞分辨率特异性和稳健地对靶标结合的药物分子进行原位荧光成像,并能够识别靶细胞类型。使用已建立的内源性大麻素水解酶和单胺氧化酶抑制剂,直接或竞争性 CATCH 不仅揭示了不同药物化合物在小鼠大脑中的不同解剖分布和主要靶细胞类型,而且还揭示了药物在整个和脑内不同区域的结合存在意想不到的差异,反映了罕见的细胞类型,以及组织、细胞和亚细胞区室中药物靶标随剂量的变化,这些变化是传统方法无法实现的。CATCH 是可视化小分子在组织中体内相互作用的有价值的平台。