申请人:Barany Francis
公开号:US20140161729A1
公开(公告)日:2014-06-12
The present invention is directed to method of using a collection of monomers capable of forming multimers as a fluorescence reporter in different applications such as ligand detection/screening, disease diagnosis, drug discovery or screening, fluorescent labeling and imaging, or other fluorescent methodologies. Each monomer in the collection includes one or more ligand elements useful for binding to a target molecule with a dissociation constant of less than 300 μM and a linker element connected to the ligand elements directly or indirectly through a connector. Association of linker elements of different combinations of monomers, with their ligand elements bound to the target molecule to form a multimer, will generate a unique fluorescent signature different from that produced by those monomers either alone or in association with each other in the absence of the target molecule, when subjected to electromagnetic excitement.
本发明涉及使用一组能够形成多聚体的单体作为荧光报告物在不同应用中的方法,例如配体检测/筛选、疾病诊断、药物发现或筛选、荧光标记和成像,或其他荧光方法学。该组合中的每个单体均包括一个或多个配体元素,用于与解离常数小于300μM的靶分子结合,并且连接到配体元素的连接器通过直接或间接连接到配体元素。不同单体组合的连接器元素与其配体元素结合到靶分子形成多聚体,将产生一种独特的荧光特征,与那些单体单独或在没有靶分子的情况下相互结合时产生的荧光特征不同,当受到电磁激发时。