Designing Molecular Probes To Prolong Intracellular Retention: Application to Nitroxide Spin Probes

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• 作者：Eric A. Legenzov ; Sukumaran Muralidharan ; Lukas B. Woodcock ; Gareth R. Eaton ; Sandra S. Eaton ; Gerald M. Rosen ; Joseph P. Y. Kao
• 刊名：Bioconjugate Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 21, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：27
• 期：12
• 页码：2923-2930
• 全文大小：451K
• ISSN：1520-4812

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Targeted delivery of molecular probes into cells enables cellular imaging through optical and magnetic modalities. Probe molecules that are well retained by cells can accumulate to higher intracellular concentrations, and thus increase the signal-to-noise ratio of, and widen the temporal window for, imaging. Here we synthesize a paramagnetic spin probe bearing six ionic functional groups and show that it has long intracellular half-life (>12 h) and exceptional biostability in living cells. We demonstrate that judicious incorporation of ionic substituents on probe molecules systematically increases intracellular retention time, and should therefore be beneficial to imaging experiments.