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Joseph Thomas1, Douglas B Sherman, Terry J Amiss
1BD Technologies, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. joseph_thomas@bd.com
Abstract:
Environmentally sensitive near-IR (NIR) dyes are useful fluorophores for various biosensor applications when tissue absorption, scattering, and autofluorescence are a leading concern. Biosensors operating in the NIR region (generally wavelengths >650 nm) would avoid interference from biological media and thereby facilitate relatively interference free sensing. Squaraine dyes are potential candidates to serve as reporter molecules due to their spectral properties in the NIR region, but none is commercially available for site-specific coupling to proteins through native or engineered thiols on cysteine. In this context, we have synthesized a thiol-reactive squaraine that displays fluorescence emission above 650 nm and have coupled the dye site-specifically to various mutants of glucose/galactose binding protein that contained an engineered cysteine for attachment. Mutant E149C/A213R/L238S ISQ GGBP gave a fluorescence change of +50% and a binding constant of 12 mM, which is in the human physiological range for glucose.
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