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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Coelenterazine Analogs for Bioassays and Molecular Imaging.

Sung-Bae Kim, Genta Kamiya, Tadaomi Furuta, Shojiro A Maki

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sung-Bae KimEnvironmental Management Research Institute (EMRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8569, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7033-9056
Genta KamiyaDepartment of Engineering Science, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu 182-8585, Japan.
Tadaomi FurutaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, B-62 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4568-9043
Shojiro A MakiDepartment of Engineering Science, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu 182-8585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9741-0166

Funding

JSPS KAKENHI and JST SPRING 20K21851, 21H04948, 23KK0101, and JPMJSP2131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coelenterazine (CTZ) is a common substrate of marine luciferases upon emission of bioluminescence (BL) in living organisms. Because CTZ works as a "luminophore" in the process of BL emission, the chemical modification has been centered for improving the optical properties of BL. In this review, we showcase recent advances in CTZ designs with unique functionalities. We first elucidate the light-emitting mechanisms of CTZ, and then focus on how the rational modification of CTZ analogs developed in recent years are connected to the development of unique functionalities even without luciferases, which include color tunability covering the visible region, specificity to various proteins (e.g., luciferase, albumin, and virus protein), and activatability to ions or reactive oxygen species (ROS) and anticancer drugs. This review provides new insights into the broad utilities of CTZ analogs with designed functionalities in bioassays and molecular imaging.

Indexed as

Biological AssayImidazolesMolecular ImagingPyrazinesAnimalsHumansLuciferasesLuminescenceLuminescent MeasurementsReactive Oxygen SpeciescoelenterazineImidazolesLuciferasesPyrazinesReactive Oxygen Speciesbioassaybioluminescencecoelenterazineimagingluciferase

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PMID40292719
PMCPMC11945097

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