Activatable fluorescent probes for hydrolase enzymes based on coumarin-hemicyanine hybrid fluorophores with large Stokes shifts.
Fujioka HGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uranokun@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Uno SNGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uranokun@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp and Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Kamiya MGraduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Kojima RGraduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Johnsson KInstitute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. johnsson@mr.mpg.de.
Urano YGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. uranokun@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp and Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan and CREST (Japan) Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), 1-7-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan.
English
We show that the equilibrium of intramolecular spirocyclization of coumarin-hemicyanine hybrid fluorophores can be finely tuned by means of chemical modifications. We used this scaffold to develop activatable fluorescent probes with large Stokes shifts for γ-glutamyltranspeptidase and esterase.