申请人:The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
公开号:US10370538B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-06
The compositions of the present disclosure provide novel fluorogenic probes for use in the specific imaging and detection of mycobacteria species, and in particular β-lactam-antibiotic resistant. Specificity for mycobacteria is conferred on these probes by incorporating a moiety that specifically targets the unique trapping mechanism of the DprE1 found in in mycobacteria. Accordingly, only Mycobacteria species that express both a β-lactamase and DprE1 enable both the activation of the caged fluorescent probe, and the affixing of the released fluorescent probes to the bacteria cells through the functioning reduction-covalent binding mechanism. Advantageously, such a probe is able, at its most sensitive, to allow single mycobacterium detection.
本公开的组合物提供了新型荧光探针,可用于分枝杆菌,尤其是抗β-内酰胺类抗生素分枝杆菌的特异性成像和检测。这些探针加入了一个分子,专门针对分枝杆菌中 DprE1 的独特捕获机制,从而对分枝杆菌具有特异性。因此,只有同时表达 β-内酰胺酶和 DprE1 的分枝杆菌才能激活笼式荧光探针,并通过有效的还原-共价结合机制将释放的荧光探针粘附到细菌细胞上。更有利的是,这种探针的灵敏度最高,可用于单个分枝杆菌的检测。