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博士生导师
硕士生导师
性别:男
毕业院校:大连化物所
学位:博士
所在单位:化学学院
学科:分析化学
办公地点:大连理工大学西部校区化工综合楼D313
联系方式:+86-411-84986042
电子邮箱:bo.song@dlut.edu.cn
Background-free in-vivo Imaging of Vitamin C using Time-gateable Responsive Probe
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2015-09-16
发表刊物:SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
收录刊物:SCIE、PubMed、Scopus
卷号:5
页面范围:14194
ISSN号:2045-2322
摘要:Sensitive optical imaging of active biomolecules in the living organism requires both a molecular probe specifically responsive to the target and a high-contrast approach to remove the background interference from autofluorescence and light scatterings. Here, a responsive probe for ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has been developed by conjugating two nitroxide radicals with a long-lived luminescent europium complex. The nitroxide radical withholds the probe on its "off" state (barely luminescent), until the presence of vitamin C will switch on the probe by forming its hydroxylamine derivative. The probe showed a linear response to vitamin C concentration with a detection limit of 9.1 nM, two orders of magnitude lower than that achieved using electrochemical methods. Time-gated luminescence microscopy (TGLM) method has further enabled real-time, specific and background-free monitoring of cellular uptake or endogenous production of vitamin C, and mapping of vitamin C in living Daphnia magna. This work suggests a rational design of lanthanide complexes for backgroundf-ree small animal imaging of biologically functional molecules.