A highly selective turn-on fluorescent probe based on semi-cyanine for the detection of nitroreductase and hypoxic tumor cell imaging

  • Jun Yuan
  • , Yu Qiong Xu
  • , Nan Nan Zhou
  • , Rui Wang
  • , Xu Hong Qian
  • , Yu Fang Xu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Based on a semi-cyanine fluorophore, a selective turn-on fluorescent probe semi-CyHP for the detection of nitroreductase (NTR) and hypoxia was designed and synthesized. It can be activated by NTR and to restore the pull-push electronic systems of semi-CyHF, which strongly fluoresces at 556 nm. Besides, the investigation of the hypoxic tumor cell imaging with semi-CyHP was significant with minimal endogenous interference.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56207-56210
Number of pages4
JournalRSC Advances
Volume4
Issue number99
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

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