Fluorescent Flippers for Mechanosensitive Membrane Probes
摘要:
In this report, fluorescent flippers are introduced to create planarizable pushpull probes with the mechanosensitivity and fluorescence lifetime needed for practical use in biology. Twisted pushpull scaffolds with large and bright dithienothiophenes and their S,S-dioxides as the first fluorescent flippers are shown to report on the lateral organization of lipid bilayers with quantum yields above 80% and lifetimes above 4 ns. Their planarization in liquid-ordered (Lo) and solid-ordered (So) membranes results in red shifts in excitation of up to +80 nm that can be transcribed into red shifts in emission of up to +140 nm by Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET). These unique properties are compatible with multidomain imaging in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and cells by confocal laser scanning or fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Controls indicate that strong push-pull macrodipoles are important, operational probes do not relocate in response to lateral membrane reorganization, and two flippers are indeed needed to really swim, i.e., achieve high mechanosensitivity.
MODIFIED RELAXIN POLYPEPTIDES COMPRISING A PHARMACOKINETIC ENHANCER AND USES THEREOF
申请人:Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
公开号:US20180222960A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-09
The present disclosure generally relates to modified relaxin polypeptides, such as modified human relaxin 2 polypeptides, comprising a non-naturally encoded amino acid which is linked to a pharmacokinetic enhancer, and therapeutic uses of such polypeptides, such as for the treatment of cardiovascular conditions (such as heart failure) and/or conditions relating to fibrosis.
Oxazolidinone derivatives having a 7-membered heterocyclic ring
申请人:Research Foundation Itsuu Laboratory
公开号:EP2233484A2
公开(公告)日:2010-09-29
The present invention provides a compound of the formula:
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof
wherein
Y1 is NRa, O, S, SO or SO2;
Ring B is optionally substituted carbocycle or optionally substituted heterocycle.
In this report, fluorescent flippers are introduced to create planarizable pushpull probes with the mechanosensitivity and fluorescence lifetime needed for practical use in biology. Twisted pushpull scaffolds with large and bright dithienothiophenes and their S,S-dioxides as the first fluorescent flippers are shown to report on the lateral organization of lipid bilayers with quantum yields above 80% and lifetimes above 4 ns. Their planarization in liquid-ordered (Lo) and solid-ordered (So) membranes results in red shifts in excitation of up to +80 nm that can be transcribed into red shifts in emission of up to +140 nm by Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET). These unique properties are compatible with multidomain imaging in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and cells by confocal laser scanning or fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Controls indicate that strong push-pull macrodipoles are important, operational probes do not relocate in response to lateral membrane reorganization, and two flippers are indeed needed to really swim, i.e., achieve high mechanosensitivity.
Synthesis of Aminooxy and <i>N</i>-Alkylaminooxy Amines for Use in Bioconjugation
作者:Michael R. Carrasco、Carolina I. Alvarado、Scott T. Dashner、Amanda J. Wong、Michael A. Wong
DOI:10.1021/jo101066c
日期:2010.8.20
Five Boc-protected aminooxy and N-alkylaminooxy amines have been synthesized in 60−95% overall yield using a common synthetic strategy from readily available two- and three-carbon Cbz-protected amino alcohols. The amines can be linked to biomolecules via amide formation and incorporated directly into peptoids via submonomer synthesis. Subsequent deprotection of the aminooxy and N-alkylaminooxy groups