Activatable fluorescent probes for in situ imaging of enzymes

X Wu, R Wang, N Kwon, H Ma, J Yoon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As the main biomarkers of most diseases, enzymes play fundamental but extremely critical
roles in biosystems. High-resolution studies of enzymes using activatable in situ …

Recent progresses in small-molecule enzymatic fluorescent probes for cancer imaging

HW Liu, L Chen, C Xu, Z Li, H Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Abnormal enzymatic activities are directly related to the development of cancers. Identifying
the location and expression levels of these enzymes in live cancer cells have considerable …

General design strategy to precisely control the emission of fluorophores via a twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) process

K Hanaoka, S Iwaki, K Yagi, T Myochin… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluorogenic probes for bioimaging have become essential tools for life science and
medicine, and the key to their development is a precise understanding of the mechanisms …

Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (A f BPs) for profiling of enzymes

H Fang, B Peng, SY Ong, Q Wu, L Li, SQ Yao - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a technique that uses highly selective active-site
targeted chemical probes to label and monitor the state of proteins. ABPP integrates the …

Progress and perspective of solid-state organic fluorophores for biomedical applications

K Li, TB Ren, S Huan, L Yuan… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent organic dyes have been extensively used as raw materials for the development
of versatile imaging tools in the field of biomedicine. Particularly, the development of solid …

[HTML][HTML] Cysteine cathepsins: from structure, function and regulation to new frontiers

V Turk, V Stoka, O Vasiljeva, M Renko, T Sun… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2012 - Elsevier
It is more than 50years since the lysosome was discovered. Since then its hydrolytic
machinery, including proteases and other hydrolases, has been fairly well identified and …

Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann–Pick C1

JE Carette, M Raaben, AC Wong, AS Herbert… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Infections by the Ebola and Marburg filoviruses cause a rapidly fatal haemorrhagic fever in
humans for which no approved antivirals are available. Filovirus entry is mediated by the …

Recent advances in enzyme-activated NIR fluorescent probes for biological applications

H Jeong, X Wu, JS Lee, J Yoon - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Enzymes and their regulations are employed as indicators for various diseases, including
cancer. To directly analyze the activity of the enzymes within a biological system, enzyme …

Targeting proteases: successes, failures and future prospects

B Turk - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Until fairly recently, proteases were considered primarily to be protein-degrading enzymes.
However, this view has dramatically changed and proteases are now seen as extremely …

Enzyme inhibitor discovery by activity-based protein profiling

MJ Niphakis, BF Cravatt - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms possess huge numbers of uncharacterized enzymes.
Selective inhibitors offer powerful probes for assigning functions to enzymes in native …