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Visualizing Nascent T-Tubules in hPSC-CMs

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To visualize nascent t‐tubule formation, we used di‐8‐ANEPPS (Life technologies), a lipophilic voltage‐sensitive dye that localizes to t‐tubules in mature hPSC‐CMs. As described previous, we prepared 100 µmol/L di‐8‐ANEPPS in 20% (w/v) Pluronic‐F127 (Sigma) in DMSO from a stock solution of 2 mmol/L di‐8‐ANEPPS in DMSO and added enough cell‐culture medium to incubate cells in 10 µmol/L di‐8‐ANEPPS for 15 minutes at 37°C. The medium was changed, and cells were imaged 30 minutes later. Mitochondria in live cells were labelled with MitoTracker Red (Life Technologies) at a concentration of 50 nmol/L for 10 minutes at 37°C. The cells were washed once with warm PBS, and new warm culture medium was added immediately before imaging. Nuclei were visualized by incubating live cells in medium with 1 µg/mL Hoechst 3342 (Life Technologies) for 5 minutes at 37°C, and fresh medium was added. A confocal microscope (Leica TCS SP5) was used to image t‐tubules labelled with di‐8‐ANEPPS and mitochondrial labelled with MitoTracker Red.
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Fluorescent Labeling of Cardiomyocytes

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The cardiomyocytes were incubated with 5 µM di-8-ANEPPS, a membrane fluorescent dye (Sigma-Aldrich), for 5 min at room temperature and immediately washed twice with cell storage solution. All image acquisition was completed on confocal laser microscopy (Zeiss LSM-710; Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) by using 488 nm excitation light with detection at > 505 nm. Z-stack images were recorded with the same X–Y pixel (1024 by 1024) size and a z-step of 0.5 µm intervals.
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Preparation and Characterization of Fatty Acid Vesicles

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The heptanoic acid (Hep-A, C7 > 98%), lactic acid, and Di-8-ANEPPS (4-(2-[6-(dioctylamino)-2-naphthalenyl] ethenyl)-1-(3-sulfopropyl)-pyridinium) were supplied by Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The buffer solution was prepared in deionized water. All chemicals were used as received without further purification.
Salt-free FA vesicles were prepared with ultra-pure water from the Millipore Milli-Q system (Darmstadt, Germany). Samples of the FA/LA vesicles for phase behavior were prepared by mixing individual fatty acid and lactic acid solutions.
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Chromone-containing Allylmorpholines: Synthesis and Characterization

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Nonactin, KCl, HEPES, phosphate-buffered solution (PBS), EDTA, pentane, ethanol, calcein, triton X-100, sephadex G-50, DMSO, di-8-ANEPPS, PEG-8000, amphotericin B (AmB), and gramicidin A (GrA) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Company Ltd. (Gillingham, UK). KCl solutions (0.1 or 2.0 M) were buffered using 10 mM HEPES-KOH at pH 7.4. Lipids: 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (POPE), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), and cholesterol (CHOL), were obtained from (Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc., USA). All experiments were performed at room temperature (25 °C).
The variations in the chemical structures of the tested chromone-containing allylmorpholines are presented in Table 1. A description of the synthesis of the compounds is given in [7 (link)]. Relationships between compound numbers used in this work and in the study by [7 (link)] are given in Supplementary Table S1. Molecular weights, the ionization constants (pKa), logarithms of the octanol/water partition coefficients (LogP), and molecular dipole moments (μ) of the tested compounds are presented in Supplementary Table S1.
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Membrane Interactions of PDE-5 Inhibitors

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All chemicals used were of reagent grade. Synthetic 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC), 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-(1′-rac-glycerol) (POPG), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine (DPPC), and cholesterol (Chol) were obtained from Avanti® Polar Lipids (Alabaster, Alabama, AL, USA). Nonactin, di-8-ANEPPS, KCl, HEPES, KOH, DMSO, gramicidin A (GrA), nystatin (Nys), sildenafil citrate, vardenafil hydrochloride, and tadalafil were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich® (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). The chemical structures of the tested PDE-5 inhibitors are presented in Table 1.
KCl solutions (0.1 M or 2.0 M) were buffered using 5 mM HEPES–KOH at pH 7.4. All experiments were performed at room temperature (25 ± 2 °C).
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Visualizing Cardiac T-Tubules and Dyadic Proteins

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Experimental imaging of t-tubules was performed by staining live cells with di-4-ANEPPS (Sigma-Aldrich), di-8-ANEPPS (Sigma-Aldrich), RH237 (ThermoFisher), CellMask (ThermoFisher) or FM1–43FX (ThermoFisher). In fixed cells and tissue sections, t-tubules were stained with wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to Alexa Fluor (488, 546 or 633). Dyadic proteins were labelled with primary antibodies against Caveolin-3 (Cav-3; Abcam, ab2912) and bridging integrator 1 (Bin-1; Santa Cruz, Sc-23918), and secondary antibodies coupled to Alexa Fluor 488 or 546 (ThermoFisher). Presented images of dyadic proteins and t-tubules were obtained using an LSM800 Airyscan confocal microscope (Zeiss, Jena, Germany) using a 63× magnification oil immersion objective. To test the versatility of the plugin, analysis of images captured with other confocal microscopes (Zeiss LSM 510 and 710) was also performed.
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