申请人:Drummond Margaret Struthers
公开号:US20140010762A1
公开(公告)日:2014-01-09
An imaging agent for cells which produces an intracellular imaging signal proportional to the amount of hCE-1 in the cells independently of the amount of hCE-2 and/or hCE-3 in the cells, said imaging agent being a covalent conjugate of (a) an imaging agent and (b) an alpha mono- or di-substituted amino acid ester, wherein (a) is directly linked to (b), or (a) is indirectly linked to (b) by a linker radical, and wherein said direct or indirect linkage is via the amino group of (b), and wherein the amino group is not directly linked to a carbonyl group, and wherein the said alpha mono- or di-substituted amino acid ester part is selectively hydrolysable to the corresponding carboxylic acid part by the intracellular carboxylesterase enzyme hCE-1 relative to the intracellular enzymes hCE-2 or hCE-3.
一种细胞成像剂,其产生与细胞中hCE-1数量成比例的胞内成像信号,而与细胞中hCE-2和/或hCE-3的数量无关,所述成像剂是(a)成像剂和(b)α-单或双取代氨基酸酯的共价结合物,其中(a)直接与(b)连接,或者(a)通过链连接基间接与(b)连接,且所述直接或间接连接是通过(b)的氨基团,且所述氨基团不直接连接到羰基团,所述α-单或双取代氨基酸酯部分可被细胞内羧酸酯酶酶hCE-1选择性水解为相应的羧酸部分,而相对于细胞内酶hCE-2或hCE-3而言。