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Espinoza EM, Røise JJ, He M, Li IC, Agatep AK, Udenyi P, Han H, Jackson N, Kerr DL, Chen D, Stentzel MR, Ruan E, Riley L, Murthy N. A self-immolative linker that releases thiols detects penicillin amidase and nitroreductase with high sensitivity via absorption spectroscopy. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:3166-3169. [PMID: 35170593 PMCID: PMC9097719 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05322a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
This article reports the synthesis and characterization of a novel self-immolative linker, based on thiocarbonates, which releases a free thiol upon activation via enzymes. We demonstrate that thiocarbonate self-immolative linkers can be used to detect the enzymes penicillin G amidase (PGA) and nitroreductase (NTR) with high sensitivity using absorption spectroscopy. Paired with modern thiol amplification technology, the detection of PGA and NTR were achieved at concentrations of 160 nM and 52 nM respectively. In addition, the PGA probe was shown to be compatible with both biological thiols and enzymes present in cell lysates.
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- Eli M Espinoza
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- School of Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- School of Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
- Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), 2151 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA
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Das S, Indurthi HK, Asati P, Sharma DK. Small Molecule Fluorescent Probes for Sensing and Bioimaging of Nitroreductase. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202102895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Samarpita Das
- Department of Pharmaceutical Engg. and Tech Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Up 221005
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engg. and Tech Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Up 221005
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engg. and Tech Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Up 221005
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engg. and Tech Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Up 221005
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Akhtar N, Biswas O, Manna D. Stimuli-responsive transmembrane anion transport by AIE-active fluorescent probes. Org Biomol Chem 2021; 19:7446-7459. [PMID: 34612363 DOI: 10.1039/d1ob00584g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Anticancer drug resistance implicates multifunctional mechanisms, and hypoxia is one of the key factors in therapeutic resistance. Hypoxia-specific therapy is considered an extremely effective strategy to fight against cancer. The development of small molecule-based synthetic anion transporters has also recently drawn attention for their potential therapeutic applications against several ion-transport-associated diseases, such as cancer and others. Herein, we describe the development of a hypoxia-responsive proanionophore to trigger controlled transport of anions across membranes under pathogenic conditions. Herein, we report the development of tetraphenylethene (TPE)-based anion transporters. The sulfonium-linked p-nitrobenzyl containing TPE-based proanionophore could be converted into a lipophilic fluorescent Cl- ion carrier in a hypoxic or reductive environment. Stimuli such as nitroreductase (NTR) and glutathione (GSH) mediated regeneration of the TPE-based active Cl- ion transporter also showed aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties. We hypothesize that such hypoxia and reductive stimuli activatable proanionophores have tremendous potential to fight against channelopathies, including cancer.
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- Nasim Akhtar
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India.
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Tian X, Kumawat LK, Bull SD, Elmes RB, Wu L, James TD. Coumarin-based fluorescent probe for the detection of glutathione and nitroreductase. Tetrahedron 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Boddu RS, Perumal O, K D. Microbial nitroreductases: A versatile tool for biomedical and environmental applications. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2020; 68:1518-1530. [PMID: 33156534 DOI: 10.1002/bab.2073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Nitroreductases, enzymes found mostly in bacteria and also in few eukaryotes, use nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) as a cofactor for their activity and metabolize an enormous list of a diverse nitro group-containing compounds. Nitroreductases that are capable of metabolizing nitroaromatic and nitro heterocyclic compounds have drawn great attention in recent years owing to their biotechnological, biomedical, environmental, and human impact. These enzymes attracted medicinal chemists and pharmacologists because of their prodrug selectivity for activation/reduction of nitro compounds that wipe out pathogens/cancer cells, leaving the host/normal cells unharmed. It is applied in diverse fields of study like prodrug activation in treating cancer and leishmaniasis, designing fluorescent probes for hypoxia detection, cell imaging, ablation of specific cell types, biodegradation of nitro-pollutants, and interpretation of mutagenicity of nitro compounds. Keeping in view the immense prospects of these enzymes and a large number of research contributions in this area, the present review encompasses the enzymatic reaction mechanism, their role in antibiotic resistance, hypoxia sensing, cell imaging, cancer therapy, reduction of recalcitrant nitro chemicals, enzyme variants, and their specificity to substrates, reaction products, and their applications.
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- Ramya Sree Boddu
- Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, India
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Recent progress in the design principles, sensing mechanisms, and applications of small-molecule probes for nitroreductases. Coord Chem Rev 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Wu L, Sedgwick AC, Sun X, Bull SD, He XP, James TD. Reaction-Based Fluorescent Probes for the Detection and Imaging of Reactive Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Species. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:2582-2597. [PMID: 31460742 PMCID: PMC7007013 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 313] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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This Account describes a range of strategies for the development of fluorescent probes for detecting reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), and reactive (redox-active) sulfur species (RSS). Many ROS/RNS have been implicated in pathological processes such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and aging, while many RSS play important roles in maintaining redox homeostasis, serving as antioxidants and acting as free radical scavengers. Fluorescence-based systems have emerged as one of the best ways to monitor the concentrations and locations of these often very short lived species. Because of the high levels of sensitivity and in particular their ability to be used for temporal and spatial sampling for in vivo imaging applications. As a direct result, there has been a huge surge in the development of fluorescent probes for sensitive and selective detection of ROS, RNS, and RSS within cellular environments. However, cellular environments are extremely complex, often with more than one species involved in a given biochemical process. As a result, there has been a rise in the development of dual-responsive fluorescent probes (AND-logic probes) that can monitor the presence of more than one species in a biological environment. Our aim with this Account is to introduce the fluorescent probes that we have developed for in vitro and in vivo measurement of ROS, RNS, and RSS. Fluorescence-based sensing mechanisms used in the construction of the probes include photoinduced electron transfer, intramolecular charge transfer, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT), and fluorescence resonance energy transfer. In particular, probes for hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorous acid, superoxide, peroxynitrite, glutathione, cysteine, homocysteine, and hydrogen sulfide are discussed. In addition, we describe the development of AND-logic-based systems capable of detecting two species, such as peroxynitrite and glutathione. One of the most interesting advances contained in this Account is our extension of indicator displacement assays (IDAs) to reaction-based indicator displacement assays (RIAs). In an IDA system, an indicator is allowed to bind reversibly to a receptor. Then a competitive analyte is introduced into the system, resulting in displacement of the indicator from the host, which in turn modulates the optical signal. With an RIA-based system, the indicator is cleaved from a preformed receptor-indicator complex rather than being displaced by the analyte. Nevertheless, without a doubt the most significant result contained in this Account is the use of an ESIPT-based probe for the simultaneous sensing of fibrous proteins/peptides AND environmental ROS/RNS.
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- Luling Wu
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K.
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- University
of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
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- Key
Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education,
School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an
Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K.
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- Key
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research
Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa
Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and
Molecular Engineering, East China University
of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K.
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Zhang XP, Yuan Q, Qi YL, Zheng DJ, Liu QX, Wang BZ, Yang YS, Zhu HL. An umbelliferone-derivated fluorescent sensor for selective detection of palladium(II) from palladium(0) in living cells. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2019; 220:117134. [PMID: 31141780 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.05.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Revised: 05/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Palladium (Pd) has drawn worldwide attentions because its connections to industry, chemistry, biological material and public health. Quantitative and selective detection tools for Pd and its ion forms are in urgent necessity. Here an umbelliferone derivative Umb-Pd2 was provided as a small, steady, safe and selective sensor for detecting Pd(II). It indicated advantages including sensitive (LOD 1.1 nM), wide pH tolerance (5.0-10.0), applicable linear range (0-1.8 equivalent) and low toxicity. The most attractive point was its explicit selectivity towards Pd(II) from Pd(0) in both independent and coexistence systems. This distinguishing ability was further utilized in imaging in living cells, raising this work as a rare and important example among all the published papers on palladium sensing. Thus, Umb-Pd2 supplied a potential approach for further improvement and applications in both daily chemistry and public health.
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- Xu-Ping Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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Gurram B, Li M, Fan J, Wang J, Peng X. Near-infrared fluorescent probe for fast track of cyclooxygenase-2 in Golgi apparatus in cancer cells. Front Chem Sci Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11705-019-1796-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Wu L, Gardiner JE, Kumawat LK, Han HH, Guo R, Li X, He XP, Elmes RBP, Sedgwick AC, Bull SD, James TD. Coumarin-based fluorescent ‘AND’ logic gate probes for the detection of homocysteine and a chosen biological analyte. RSC Adv 2019; 9:26425-26428. [PMID: 35530981 PMCID: PMC9070123 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04908h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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With this research we set out to develop a number of coumarin-based ‘AND’ logic fluorescence probes that were capable of detecting a chosen analyte in the presence of HCys. Probe JEG-CAB was constructed by attaching the ONOO− reactive unit, benzyl boronate ester, to a HCys/Cys reactive fluorescent probe, CAH. Similarly, the core unit CAH was functionalised with the nitroreductase (NTR) reactive p-nitrobenzyl unit to produce probe JEG-CAN. Both, JEG-CAB and JEG-CAN exhibited a significant fluorescence increase when exposed to either HCys and ONOO− (JEG-CAB) or HCys and NTR (JEG-CAN) thus demonstrating their effectiveness to function as AND logic gates for HCys and a chosen analyte. With this research we set out to develop of a number of coumarin-based ‘AND’ logic fluorescence probes that were capable of detecting a chosen analyte in the presence of HCys.![]()
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- Luling Wu
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bath
- Bath
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Maynooth University Human Health Institute
- Maynooth University
- National University of Ireland
- Ireland
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
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- Department of Chemistry
- Maynooth University Human Health Institute
- Maynooth University
- National University of Ireland
- Ireland
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Sedgwick AC, Gardiner JE, Kim G, Yevglevskis M, Lloyd MD, Jenkins ATA, Bull SD, Yoon J, James TD. Long-wavelength TCF-based fluorescence probes for the detection and intracellular imaging of biological thiols. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:4786-4789. [PMID: 29683468 PMCID: PMC5944426 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc01661e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Two ‘turn on’ TCF-based fluorescence probes were developed for the detection of biological thiols (TCF-GSH and TCFCl-GSH).
Two ‘turn on’ TCF-based fluorescence probes were developed for the detection of biological thiols (TCF-GSH and TCFCl-GSH). TCF-GSH was shown to have a high sensitivity towards glutathione (GSH) with a 0.28 μM limit of detection. Unfortunately, at higher GSH concentrations the fluorescence intensity of TCF-GSH decreased and toxicity was observed for TCF-GSH in live cells. However, TCFCl-GSH was shown to be able to detect GSH at biologically relevant concentrations with a 0.45 μM limit of detection. No toxicity was found for TCFCl-GSH and a clear ‘turn on’ with good photostability was observed for the exogenous addition of GSH, Cys and HCys. Furthermore, TCFCl-GSH was used to evaluate the effects of drug treatment on the levels of GSH in live cells.
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- Adam C Sedgwick
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
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Sedgwick AC, Wu L, Han HH, Bull SD, He XP, James TD, Sessler JL, Tang BZ, Tian H, Yoon J. Excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT) based fluorescence sensors and imaging agents. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:8842-8880. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00185e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 690] [Impact Index Per Article: 115.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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We review recent advances in the design and application of excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT) based fluorescent probes. These sensors and imaging agents (probes) are important in biology, physiology, pharmacology, and environmental science.
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- Adam C. Sedgwick
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bath
- Bath
- UK
- Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bath
- Bath
- UK
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bath
- Bath
- UK
- Department of Materials and Life Sciences
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- Department of Chemistry
- The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
- Clear Water Bay
- Kowloon
- China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science
- Ewha Womans University
- Seoul 120-750
- Korea
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