Nakayama, Jun; Saito, Ryohei; Hayashi, Yusuke; Kitada, Nobuo; Tamaki, Shota; Han, Yuxuan; Semba, Kentaro; Maki, Shojiro A. published the artcile< High sensitivity in vivo imaging of cancer metastasis using a near-infrared luciferin analogue seMpai>, Application In Synthesis of 2591-17-5, the main research area is cancer metastasis IR luciferin analog sempai; in vivo imaging; luciferin analogue; metastasis; near-infrared bioluminescence.
Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is useful to monitor cell movement and gene expression in live animals. However, D-luciferin has a short wavelength (560 nm) which is absorbed by tissues and the use of near-IR (NIR) luciferin analogs enable high sensitivity in vivo BLI. The AkaLumine-AkaLuc BLI system (Aka-BLI) can detect resolution at the single-cell level; however, it has a clear hepatic background signal. Here, to enable the highly sensitive detection of bioluminescence from the surrounding liver tissues, we focused on seMpai (C15H16N3O2S) which has been synthesized as a luciferin analog and has high luminescent abilities as same as AkaLumine. We demonstrated that seMpai BLI could detect micro-signals near the liver without any background signal. The solution of seMpai was neutral; therefore, seMpai imaging did not cause any adverse effect in mice. seMpai enabled a highly sensitive in vivo BLI as compared to previous techniques. Our findings suggest that the development of a novel mutated luciferase against seMpai may enable a highly sensitive BLI at the single-cell level without any background signal. Novel seMpai BLI system can be used for in vivo imaging in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences published new progress about Bioluminescent imaging. 2591-17-5 belongs to class thiazole, and the molecular formula is C11H8N2O3S2, Application In Synthesis of 2591-17-5.
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