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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 91, Issue 16, Pages 10894-10900Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02814
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [21475105, 21675123]
- Science and Technology Department [2018JM2001]
- Shaanxi Province of China
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Acrylate has been widely used as the recognition unit for Cys fluorescent probes. Despite this widespread use, a potential drawback of this probe type is that the ester linkage between the fluorophore and acryloyl recognition unit is liable to be hydrolyzed by abundant esterase in the cytosol, thus affording a high background signal. To solve this problem, we herein put forward a new strategy to construct a selective fluorescent probe for cysteine (Cys)/homocysteine (Hcy) with propynamide as the recognition moiety. The free probe CPA displays weakly fluorescent emission in aqueous media because of the donor excited photoinduced electron transfer (d-PET) process within the molecule. The Michael addition of Cys (or Hey) thiols to the conjugated alkyne of CPA gives the expected beta-sulfido-alpha,beta-unsaturated amides (1a/1b), which subsequently undergo an intramolecular S,N rearrangement, yielding beta-amino-alpha,beta unsaturated amides (2a/2b) as the final products. The above cascade reaction results in the blockage of d-PET within CPA, thus affording a dramatic fluorescence enhancement at 495 nm. The involvement of the sulfhydryl and the adjacent amino groups in the sensing process renders CPA high selectivity for Cys/Hcy over glutathione as well as other amino acids. The probe has been successfully applied to image Cys in different cell lines. Further, CPA shows two-photon fluorescence properties, and its ability to monitor Cys in deep tissues has been demonstrated by using two-photon microscopy.
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