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Published on: October 1, 2016
A Highly Sensitive Chemiluminescent Probe for Detecting Nitroreductase and Imaging in Living Animals
Jinyu Sun1, Zhian Hu1, Ruihua Wang2
1Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory for Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China.
Abstract:
Hypoxia is a common characteristic of solid tumors, which is caused by the imbalance of oxygen supply and consumption. As the expression level of nitroreductase (NTR) increases in hypoxic solid tumors, NTR is one of the common biomarkers of hypoxia and widely used to evaluate the degree of tumor hypoxia. In this study, we designed and synthesized a highly water-soluble chemiluminescent probe, CL-NTR, for the detection of NTR activity in hypoxic tumors. It was found that the probe could be used to detect NTR with high sensitivity, and the total light photons increased tremendously with 6000-fold after the probe was treated with NTR. The chemiluminescence total light photons emission was directly proportional to the concentration of nitroreductase in the range of 3-55 ng/mL, with a detection limit of 0.947 ng/mL. Finally, the probe was successfully used to evaluate NTR activity in living mice by chemiluminescent imaging. In general, this probe has a remarkable response to NTR, which provides a promising method for the determination of NTR activity in vivo.
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