Metallosupramolecular systems are promising new tools for pharmaceutical applications. Thus, novel self-assembled Pd(ii) coordination cages were synthesized which were exo-functionalized with naphthalene or anthracene groups with the aim to image their fate in cells. The cages were also investigated for their anticancer properties in human lung and ovarian cancer cell lines in vitro. While the ...

Study is devoted to investigation of fluorescent and photodynamic properties of near-infrared photosensitizer bacteriochloriphyllide-serine. The peculiarities of its fluorescence excited by different lasers, dynamics and selectivity of accumulation were investigated. Photodynamic therapy of mice and investigation of tissue de-oxygenation during tumor irradiation were performed. It was shown tha...

Photoswitchable fluorescent diheteroarylethenes are promising candidates for applications in super-resolution molecular localization fluorescence microscopy thanks to their high quantum yields and fatigue-resistant photoswitching characteristics. We have studied the effect of varying substituents on the photophysical properties of six sulfone derivatives of diheteroarylethenes, which display fl...

Convergent syntheses of polyglycerol hyperbranched polymers containing fluorescent labels (fluorescein or perylene diimide (PDI)) at their core are presented. The hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG) precursors were synthesized using a one step polymerization reaction wherein the initiator leaves a single reactive group for dye functionalization. For further site isolation, allylated HPG was synthe...

Molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein use the energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to walk processively along microtubule tracks and transport various cargoes inside the cell. Recent advancements in fluorescent protein (FP) research enable motors to be fluorescently labeled such that single molecules can be visualized inside cells in multiple colors. The performance of these fluorescent tag...

The sensitivity of chemical or biological analyses using fluorescent tagged reagents is limited by concentration quenching of the fluorescence at high tag concentrations and by photochemical bleaching if high illumination intensities are used. This paper shows by theoretical analysis and experimental verification that concentration quenching lengthens bleaching lifetimes, and the integrated flu...

Total syntheses and spectral properties of fluorescent Pb(2+) indicators are reported.

This unit describes strategies for designing functional fluorescent fusion protein constructs. Such constructs can be exploited as probes of cellular environments, protein dynamics, protein life histories, protein binding partners, and markers in living cells. The properties and uses of many currently available fluorescent proteins are discussed. In addition, alternative approaches and troubles...

We propose a neural connectomics strategy called Fluorescent In-Situ Sequencing of Barcoded Individual Neuronal Connections (FISSEQ-BOINC), leveraging fluorescent in situ nucleic acid sequencing in fixed tissue (FISSEQ) [1, 2]. FISSEQ-BOINC exhibits different properties from BOINC [3, 4], which relies on bulk nucleic acid sequencing. FISSEQ-BOINC could become a scalable approach for mapping who...

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