RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Potassium‐ion‐selective fluorescent sensors to detect cereulide, the emetic toxin of B. cereus, in food samples and HeLa cells A1 García Calvo, José A1 Ibeas Cortes, Saturnino A1 Antón García, Eva Clara A1 Torroba Pérez, Tomás A1 González Aguilar, Gerardo . A1 Antunes, Wilson . A1 González Lavado, Eloísa . A1 Fanarraga, Mónica L. . K1 Chemistry K1 Química AB We report the development of new chemical probes for cereulide, a toxic metabolite produced by specific strains of Bacillus cereus, through displacement of potassium cations from a preformed specific complex and a subsequent change in the fluorescence emission. For this purpose, we designed fluorescent probes for potassium cations that were suitable for displacement assays with cereulide from organic extracts. The fluorescence detection of natural cereulide in rice samples was achieved by using synthetic cereulide as a reference and a potassium fluorescent reporter, and this was found to be useful as a portable and fast method for the in situ detection of cereulide in food extracts. To study the fate of cereulide in live cells, we designed a procedure that was suitable for live‐cell microscopy imaging of HeLa cells by comparing the cellular location of the potassium fluorogenic probe, which stained intracellular endolysosomes, in the absence and presence of cereulide; we concluded that in the presence of cereulide, the fluorescence of the probe was decreased because of complexation of the potassium ions by cereulide. PB Wiley-VCH Verlag SN 2191-1363 YR 2017 FD 2017-08 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4776 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4776 LA eng NO Ministeriode Econom&a y Competitividad, Spain (Projects CTQ2015-71353-Rand AES-PI16/000496), Junta de Castilla y Lejn, Consejer&a de Educacijn y Cultura y Fondo Social Europeo (Project BU232U13),and the European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme(Project SNIFFER FP7-SEC-2012–312411) DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 22-dic-2024