Fluorescent rhodanine-3-acetic acids visualize neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disease brains
作者:Upendra Rao Anumala、Jiamin Gu、Fabio Lo Monte、Thomas Kramer、Roland Heyny-von Haußen、Jana Hölzer、Valerie Goetschy-Meyer、Christian Schön、Gerhard Mall、Ingrid Hilger、Christian Czech、Jochen Herms、Boris Schmidt
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2013.06.039
日期:2013.9
There is a high demand for the development of an imaging agent for neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) detection in Alzheimer's diagnosis. In the present study, a series of rhodanine-3-acetic acids was synthesized and evaluated for fluorescence imaging of NFTs in brain tissues of AD patients. Five out of seven probes have shown excellent binding affinity to NFTs over amyloid plaques in the Thiazine red R displacement assay. However, the selectivity in this in vitro assay is not confirmed by the histopathological evaluation, which indicates significant differences in the binding sites in the assays. Probe 6 showed binding affinity (IC50 = 19 nM) to tau aggregates which is the highest among this series. Probes 2, 3, 4 and 5 display IC50 values of lower than 100 nM to tau aggregates to displace Thiazine red R. Evaluation of the cytotoxicity of these five probes with human liver carcinoma cells revealed that these compounds excert negligible cytotoxicity. The in vivo studies with zebrafish embryos confirmed negligible cytotoxicity at 24 and 72 h post fertilization. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.