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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

A Functional Chemiluminescent Probe for in Vivo Imaging of Natural Killer Cell Activity Against Tumours.

Jamie I Scott, Sara Gutkin, Ori Green, Emily J Thompson, Takanori Kitamura, Doron Shabat, Marc Vendrell

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 122 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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jamie I ScottCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.
Sara GutkinTel Aviv University, Dpt of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Ori GreenTel Aviv University, Dpt of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Emily J ThompsonCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.
Takanori KitamuraMRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.
Doron ShabatTel Aviv University, Dpt of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
Marc VendrellCentre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5392-9740
Centre for Inflammation Research · GBTel Aviv University · ILMRC Centre for Reproductive Health · GB

Funding

IMMIGRATION AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE ELDERLYR03AG016559 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PK CAMPUS · PI DESAI, SONALDE B. · 1999 to 1999
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European Research Council 771443Medical Research Council MR/N022556/1Medical Research Council MR/S006982/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells are immune cells that can kill certain types of cancer cells. Adoptive transfer of NK cells represents a promising immunotherapy for malignant tumours; however, there is a lack of methods to validate anti-tumour activity of NK cells in vivo. Herein, we report a new chemiluminescent probe to image in situ the granzyme B-mediated killing activity of NK cells against cancer cells. We have optimised a granzyme B-specific construct using an activatable phenoxydioxetane reporter so that enzymatic cleavage of the probe results in bright chemiluminescence. The probe shows high selectivity for active granzyme B over other proteases and higher signal-to-noise ratios than commercial fluorophores. Finally, we demonstrate that the probe can detect NK cell activity in mouse models, being the first chemiluminescent probe for in vivo imaging of NK cell activity in live tumours.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell Line, TumorFluorescent DyesGranzymesHumansKiller Cells, NaturalLuminescent MeasurementsMiceMolecular StructureNeoplasmsNeoplasms, ExperimentalOptical ImagingFluorescent DyesGranzymesGZMB protein, humanactivatable probescancerchemiluminescenceimmunologynatural killer cells

Identifiers

PMID33300671
PMCPMC7986153
OpenAlexW3112454234

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