Small molecular cyanine dyes for phototheranostics

J Zhang, W Wang, J Shao, J Chen, X Dong - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Cyanine dyes, one of the most important classes of organic fluorophores, have recently
attracted more and more attention for their applications in fluorescence imaging, tumor …

Lumos maxima–How robust fluorophores resist photobleaching?

Y Zhang, J Ling, T Liu, Z Chen - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Fluorescent dyes synergize with advanced microscopy for researchers to investigate the
location and dynamic processes of biomacromolecules with high spatial and temporal …

Long-wavelength photoconvertible dimeric BODIPYs for super-resolution single-molecule localization imaging in near-infrared emission

Q Gong, X Zhang, W Li, X Guo, Q Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Sulfoxide-bridged dimeric BODIPYs were developed as a new class of long-wavelength
photoconvertible fluorophores. Upon visible-light irradiation, a sulfoxide moiety was …

Heptamethine cyanine dyes with ultra‐efficient excited‐state nonradiative decay for synergistic photothermal immunotherapy

X **a, C Shi, S He, R Wang, Z Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic dyes in the excited singlet state (S1) decay via intersystem crossing (ISC) to the
triplet state, radiative dissipation as fluorescence, or nonradiative decay for thermal …

Engineering of cyanine-based nanoplatform with tunable response toward reactive species for ratiometric NIR-II fluorescent imaging in mice

Y Ma, L Liu, Z Ye, L Xu, Y Li, S Liu, G Song, XB Zhang - Science Bulletin, 2023‏ - Elsevier
High-quality second near-infrared (NIR-II) nanoprobes are of great significance for real-time
bioimaging and medical diagnosis. Cyanine is an important class of fluorophores to …

Thermal Truncation of Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes

J Okoročenkova, J Filgas, NM Khan… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Cyanine dyes are a class of organic, usually cationic molecules containing two nitrogen
centers linked through conjugated polymethine chains. The synthesis and reactivity of …

Phototruncation cell tracking with near-infrared photoimmunotherapy using heptamethine cyanine dye to visualise migratory dynamics of immune cells

H Fukushima, A Furusawa, S Takao, SS Matikonda… - …, 2024‏ - thelancet.com
Background Noninvasive in vivo cell tracking is valuable in understanding the mechanisms
that enhance anti-cancer immunity. We have recently developed a new method called …

Fluorescent probes based on bioorthogonal reactions: Construction strategies and applications

H Zhao, Y He, Y Lo, H Song, J Lu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The emergence of bioorthogonal reactions has provided numerous opportunities for the
design and fabrication of innovative fluorescence systems, particularly in the analytical field …

Mechanistic Insight into the Thermal “Blueing” of Cyanine Dyes

A Vahdani, M Moemeni, D Holmes… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
In recent work to develop cyanine dyes with especially large Stokes shifts, we encountered a
“blueing” reaction, in which the heptamethine cyanine dye Cy7 (IUPAC: 1, 3, 3-trimethyl-2 …

The remarkable effect of amino hydrogen on membrane permeability and organelle staining of 1, 8-naphthalimide dyes

Z Li, Q Qiao, N Xu, K An, W Jiang, Y Tao, P Bao… - Chinese Chemical …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Membrane permeability and intracellular diffusion of fluorescent probes determine staining
selectivity of intracellular substructures. However, the relationship between the molecular …