NOVEL PI-EXTENDED ACEDAN DERIVATIVES, THEIR APPLICATION FOR TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY IMAGING, AND THEIR APPLICATION FOR TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY IMAGING OF AMYLOID-BETA PLAQUE IN AN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ANIMAL MODEL
Two-Photon Absorbing Dyes with Minimal Autofluorescence in Tissue Imaging: Application to <i>in Vivo</i> Imaging of Amyloid-β Plaques with a Negligible Background Signal
作者:Dokyoung Kim、Hyunsoo Moon、Sung Hoon Baik、Subhankar Singha、Yong Woong Jun、Taejun Wang、Ki Hean Kim、Byung Sun Park、Junyang Jung、Inhee Mook-Jung、Kyo Han Ahn
DOI:10.1021/jacs.5b03548
日期:2015.6.3
Fluorescence imaging of tissues offer an essential means for studying biological systems. Autofluorescence becomes a serious issue in tissue imaging under excitation at UV-vis wavelengths where biological molecules compete with the fluorophore. To address this critical issue, a novel class of fluorophores that can :be excited at, similar to 900 nm under two-photon excitation conditions and emits in the red wavelength region (>= 600 nm) has been disclosed. The new pi-extended dipolar dye system, shows several advantageous features including minimal antofluorescence in tissue imaging and pronounced solvent-sensitive emission behavior, compared with a widely used two-photon absorbing dye, acedan. As an important application of the new dye system, one of the dyes was developed into a fluorescent probe for amyloicl-beta plaques, a key biomarker of Alzheimer's disease. The probe enabled in Vivo imaging of amyloid-beta plaques in a disease-model mouse, with negligible background signal. The new dye system has great potential for the development of other types of two-photon fluorescent probes and tags for imaging of tissues with minimal autofluorescence.