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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2020

Exploring the Condensation Reaction between Aromatic Nitriles and Amino Thiols To Optimize In Situ Nanoparticle Formation for the Imaging of Proteases and Glycosidases in Cells.

Zixin Chen, Min Chen, Yunfeng Cheng, Toshiyuki Kowada, Jinghang Xie, Xianchuang Zheng, Jianghong Rao

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zixin ChenDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Min ChenDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Yunfeng ChengDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Toshiyuki KowadaInstitute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan.
Jinghang XieDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Xianchuang ZhengDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Jianghong RaoDepartments of Radiology and Chemistry, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5143-9529
Stanford Medicine · USTohoku University · JP

Funding

Nano Characterization and Nano Fabrication CoreU54CA199075 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI RAO, JIANGHONG, WANG, SHAN X. · 2015 to 2019
$9.6M
Cancer-Translational Nanotechnology Training Program (Cancer-TNT)T32CA196585 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W, RAO, JIANGHONG · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA196585NCI NIH HHS U54 CA199075
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The condensation reaction between 6-hydroxy-2-cyanobenzothiazole (CBT) and cysteine has been shown for various applications such as site-specific protein labelling and in vivo cancer imaging. This report further expands the substrate scope of this reaction by varying the substituents on aromatic nitriles and amino thiols and testing their reactivity and ability to form nanoparticles for cell imaging. The structure-activity relationship study leads to the identification of the minimum structural requirement for the macrocyclization and assembly process in forming nanoparticles. One of the scaffolds made of 2-pyrimidinecarbonitrile and cysteine joined by a benzyl linker was applied to design fluorescent probes for imaging caspase-3/7 and β-galactosidase activity in live cells. These results demonstrate the generality of this system for imaging hydrolytic enzymes.

Indexed as

Glycoside HydrolasesHumansNanoparticlesNitrilesPeptide HydrolasesSulfhydryl CompoundsGlycoside HydrolasesNitrilesPeptide HydrolasesSulfhydryl Compoundsbioorthogonal reactionsenzyme activity imagingfluorescent probesnanoparticlesself-assembly

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PMID31828913
PMCPMC7012687
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