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Use of the Protease Fluorescent Detection Kit to Determine Protease Activity
Published on: August 4, 2009
Highly sensitive fluorescence imaging of cancer with avidin-protease probe conjugate
Kyoko Yamamoto1, Mako Kamiya2, Yasuteru Urano3
1Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Abstract:
It is a long-term goal of cancer diagnosis to develop tumor-imaging techniques that have sufficient specificity and sensitivity to detect small tumor nodules during surgery or endoscopic surgery. Here, we introduce an avidin-conjugated fluorescence probe, Avidin-Leu-HMRG, which consists of a cancer-targeting macromolecule (avidin) and a protease-activatable probe. The conjugate has a high affinity for lectin on cancer cells and undergoes endocytosis, followed by irreversible fluorescence activation due to cleavage by lysosomal leucine aminopeptidase. In a mouse model of peritoneal ovarian metastases, the probe could detect submillimeter-sized tumor nodules with a high S/N ratio at 1 h after intraperitoneal injection.
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