1. Native Chemical Ligation-Based Fluorescent Probes for Cysteine and Aminopeptidase N Using meso-thioester-BODIPY.
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Lee U, Kim TI, Jeon S, Luo Y, Cho S, Bae J, and Kim Y
- Subjects
- Boron Compounds, CD13 Antigens, Cysteine, Fluorescent Dyes
- Abstract
meso-Carboxyl-BODIPY responds to small electronic changes resulting from acyl substitution reactions with a marked change in fluorescence. Herein, the minute changes that accompany the thioester to amide conversion encountered in native chemical ligation (NCL) are exploited in the construction of fluorescent "turn-on" probes. Two fluorogenic probes, 1 a and 4, derived from a meso-thioester-BODIPY scaffold, were designed for the selective detection of cysteine (1 a) and aminopeptidase N (4), respectively. The aromatic (1 a) and aliphatic (4) thioesters of meso-carboxyl-BODIPY are nonfluorescent. However, specific analyte-induced conversion to the meso-amide derivative caused significant spectral changes and a dramatic fluorescence enhancement. Probe 1 a exhibited a large fluorescence "turn-on" response with high selectivity toward cysteine via a tandem NCL reaction. Probe 4 was successfully applied to the monitoring and imaging of endogenous aminopeptidase N in live cancer cells., (© 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH.)
- Published
- 2021
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