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A water-soluble two-photon ratiometric triarylboron probe with nucleolar targeting by preferential RNA binding

Authors :
Mingkai Fu
Jiang Zhu
Xiao-Ming Zhang
Chenghua Zhang
Shilu Zhang
Huajun Xu
Jun Dong
Jun Liu
Chengyi Shen
Guoqiang Yang
Source :
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 53(83)
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

By functionalizing triarylboron with cyclen, we developed a two-photon fluorescence probe, TAB-2, which can selectively bind RNA with a ratiometric readout. We tested TAB-2 in NIH/3T3 fibroblast cells, and demonstrated its capability in visualizing nucleoli and analyzing microenvironment polarity by two-photon and fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy.

Details

ISSN :
1364548X
Volume :
53
Issue :
83
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6be119242e9d68a9dc5a6e399ef81af4