[HTML][HTML] Cyanine conjugates in cancer theranostics

Y Li, Y Zhou, X Yue, Z Dai - Bioactive materials, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Cyanine is a meritorious fluorogenic core for the construction of fluorescent probes and its
phototherapeutic potential has been enthusiastically explored as well. Alternatively, the …

Hows and whys of tumor-seeking dyes

SM Usama, K Burgess - Accounts of chemical research, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Active targeting uses molecular fragments that bind receptors overexpressed on
cell surfaces to deliver cargoes, and this selective delivery to diseased over healthy tissue is …

Novel sulfonyl thiazolyl-hydrazone derivatives as EGFR inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies

TA Farghaly, EMH Abbas, AM Al-Soliemy, R Sabour… - Bioorganic …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
New hydrazonoyl-sulfonylthiazoles were designed and synthesized as EGFR inhibitors. The
new sulfonylthiazole derivatives were assessed in vitro to measure their effect on EGFR …

Small molecules and conjugates as theranostic agents

S Pratihar, KK Bhagavath, T Govindaraju - RSC Chemical Biology, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Theranostics, the integration of therapy and diagnostics into a single entity for the purpose of
monitoring disease progression and treatment response. Diagnostics involves identifying …

Heptamethine cyanine dye mediated drug delivery: hype or hope

PJ Choi, TIH Park, E Cooper, M Dragunow… - Bioconjugate …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
This review covers the application of heptamethine cyanine dye (HMCD) mediated drug
delivery. A relatively small number of HMCDs possess tumor targeting abilities, and this has …

Cyanine dye mediated mitochondrial targeting enhances the anti-cancer activity of small-molecule cargoes

AR Nödling, EM Mills, X Li, D Cardella… - Chemical …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Organelle-specific delivery systems are of significant clinical interest. We demonstrate the
use of common cyanine dyes Cy3 and Cy5 as vectors for targeting and delivering cargoes to …

Near‐Infrared Fluorophores Based on Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes: From Their Synthesis and Photophysical Properties to Recent Optical Sensing and Bioimaging …

NG Medeiros, CA Braga, VS Câmara… - Asian Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes diverse synthetic methodologies to prepare a wide range of
heptamethine cyanine dyes, including symmetrical, unsymmetrical, and meso‐substituted …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in construction of small molecule-based fluorophore-drug conjugates

W Lang, C Yuan, L Zhu, S Du, L Qian, J Ge… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
As a powerful tool to advance drug discovery, molecular imaging may provide new insights
into the process of drug effect and therapy at cellular and molecular levels. When compared …

[PDF][PDF] The use of heptamethine cyanine dyes as drug-conjugate systems in the treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors

E Cooper, PJ Choi, WA Denny, J Jose… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Effective cancer therapeutics for brain tumors must be able to cross the blood-brain barrier
(BBB) to reach the tumor in adequate quantities and overcome the resistance conferred by …

TrkC-targeted kinase inhibitors and PROTACs

B Zhao, K Burgess - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
A small molecule motif (IY–IY), which binds the tropomyosin receptor kinase C (TrkC), was
used to deliver the promiscuous kinase inhibitor (KI) dasatinib into breast cancer …