Issue 20, 2022

Discovery of alkene-conjugated luciferins for redshifted and improved bioluminescence imaging in vitro and in vivo

Abstract

The firefly luciferase system is the most extensively utilized bioluminescence system in the field of life science at the moment. In this work, we designed and synthesized a series of alkene-conjugated luciferins to develop new firefly bioluminescence substrates, and further evaluated their activities in vitro and in vivo. It is worth noting that the maximum biological emission wavelength of novel luciferin analogue AL3 ((S,E)-2-(6-hydroxy-5-(3-methoxy-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl)benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-4,5-dihydrothiazole-4-carboxylic acid) is 100 nm red-shifted compared with D-luciferin, while that of analogue AL4 ((S,E)-2-(5-(2-cyanovinyl)-6-hydroxybenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-4,5-dihydrothiazole-4-carboxylic acid) is 75 nm red-shifted. The new substrate AL2 ((S,E)-2-(6-hydroxy-7-(3-methoxy-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl)benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-4,5-dihydrothiazole-4-carboxylic acid) showed better bioluminescence performance in vivo.

Graphical abstract: Discovery of alkene-conjugated luciferins for redshifted and improved bioluminescence imaging in vitro and in vivo

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Dec 2021
Accepted
03 May 2022
First published
04 May 2022

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022,20, 4224-4230

Discovery of alkene-conjugated luciferins for redshifted and improved bioluminescence imaging in vitro and in vivo

P. Zhao, X. Wu, J. Li, G. Dong, Y. Sun, Z. Ma, M. Li and L. Du, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022, 20, 4224 DOI: 10.1039/D1OB02477A

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