Efficient Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe with Red Emission for Imaging of Thiophenols in Living Cells and Tissues
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- 作者：Hong-Wen Liu ; Xiao-Bing Zhang ; Jing Zhang ; Qian-Qian Wang ; Xiao-Xiao Hu ; Peng Wang ; Weihong Tan
- 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：September 1, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：87
- 期：17
- 页码：8896-8903
- 全文大小：421K
- ISSN：1520-6882
文摘
Thiophenols, a class of highly toxic and pollutant compounds, are widely used in industrial production. Some aliphatic thiols play important roles in living organisms. Therefore, the development of efficient methods to discriminate thiophenols from aliphatic thiols is of great importance. Although several one-photon fluorescent probes have been reported for thiophenols, two-photon fluorescent probes are more favorable for biological imaging due to its low background fluorescence, deep penetration depth, and so on. In this work, a two-photon fluorescent probe for thiophenols, termed NpRb1, has been developed for the first time by employing 2,4-dinitrobenzene-sulfonate (DNBS) as a recognition unit (also a fluorescence quencher) and a naphthalene-BODIPY-based through-bond energy transfer (TBET) cassette as a fluorescent reporter. The TBET system consists of a D-蟺-A structured two-photon naphthalene fluorophore and a red-emitting BODIPY. It displayed highly energy transfer efficiency (93.5%), large pseudo-Stokes shifts upon one-photon excitation, and red fluorescence emission (位em = 586 nm), which is highly desirable for bioimaging applications. The probe exhibited a 163-fold thiophenol-triggered two-photon excited fluorescence enhancement at 586 nm. It showed a high selectivity and excellent sensitivity to thiophenols, with a detection limit of 4.9 nM. Moreover, it was successfully applied for practical detection of thiophenol in water samples with a good recovery, two-photon imaging of thiophenol in living cells, and tissues with tissue-imaging depths of 90鈥?20 渭m, demonstrating its practical application in environmental samples and biological systems.