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Intracellular self-assembly of Ru(bpy)32+ nanoparticles enables persistent phosphorescence imaging of tumors.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Li, Jindan Hai, Zijuan Xiao, Huiqiong Yi, Xiao-Yi Liang, Gaolin |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Nanoprobes are advantageous over small molecular probes in sensitivity but most luminescence molecules used to construct nanoprobes often suffer from an aggregation-caused quenching effect. Herein, we rationally designed a small molecular probe Cys(StBu)-Lys(Ru(bpy)32+)-CBT (1) which "smartly" self-assembled into nanoparticles 1-NPs inside cells with non-quenched, persistent phosphorescence. Employing this property, we successfully applied 1 for long-term sensing of biothiol activity in living HepG2 cells and tumors. We envision that, by modifying the amino group with an enzyme substrate, our probe 1 could be further developed for sensing intracellular enzyme activity with non-quenched, persistent phosphorescence. |
| Starting Page | 3460 |
| Ending Page | 3463 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1039/C8CC01759J |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c8/cc/c8cc01759j/c8cc01759j1.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 29560995 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC01759J |
| Volume Number | 54 |
| Issue Number | 28 |
| Journal | Chemical communications |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |