Journal
LUMINESCENCE
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 553-558Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/bio.2666
Keywords
chemiluminescence; chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer; CRET; near-infrared; quantum dot
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- NCI Cancer Center Support Grant [1P30 CA142543]
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Commercial chemiluminescent reagents emit across a broad portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (400-500nm). A challenge to the use of chemiluminescence to monitor biological processes is the presence of interfering substances in the biological optical window. In the present study, longer wavelength emitting fluorophores (the organic dyes Alexa 568 and Alexa 647), and a semiconductor nanoparticle (QDOT800) were used to red-shift the emission from commercially available 1,2-dioxetane-based chemiluminescent substrate reactions. By adding non-conjugated fluorescent emitters into chemiluminescent reaction mixtures, an emission peak occurred at the predicted wavelength of the fluorescent emitter. The excitation and emission from QDOT800 was preserved in the presence of a 100 mu m-thick glass barrier separating it from the chemiluminescent reaction components. The maximum tissue phantom penetration by QDOT800 emission was 8.5mm; in comparison, the native chemiluminescent emission at 500nm was unable to penetrate the thinnest tissue phantom of 2.5mm. The described method for red-shifted emissions from chemiluminescent reactions does not require direct interaction between the chemiluminescent reaction and the fluorescent emitters. This suggests that the mechanism of chemiluminescent excitation of fluorophores and QDOT800 is not exclusive to chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer or sensitized chemiluminescence, but rather by broad energization from the native chemiluminescent emission. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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