3,4-Dinitrobenzamide Functionalized CdTe/ZnTe Quantum Dots as a Nanoprobe for Imaging Glutathione S-Transferase in Living Cells  

作　　者：Jinxin Lu Yanchao Song Wen Shi Xiaohua Li Huimin Ma 

机构地区：[1]Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Chemistry》2013年第4期472-478,共7页中国化学（英文版）

摘　　要：A novel fluorescent nanoprobe for glutathione S-transferase （GST） has been developed by incorporating 3,4-dinitrobenzamide （a specific substrate of GST） onto CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots. The probe itself displays a low background signal due to the strong quenching effect of the electron-withdrawing unit of 3,4-dinitrobenzamide on the quantum dots. However, GST can efficiently catalyze the nucleophilic substitution of reduced glutathione on the p-nitro group of the nanoprobe, leading to a large fluorescence enhancement. Most notably, this enhancement shows high selectivity and sensitivity towards GST instead of the other biological substances. With this nanoprobe, a simple fluorescence imaging method for intracellular GST has been established, and its applicability has been successfully demonstrated for imaging GST in different living cells, which reveals that A549 cells express GST about 3 times higher than NIH-3T3 and Hela cells.A novel fluorescent nanoprobe for glutathione S-transferase （GST） has been developed by incorporating 3,4-dinitrobenzamide （a specific substrate of GST） onto CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots. The probe itself displays a low background signal due to the strong quenching effect of the electron-withdrawing unit of 3,4-dinitrobenzamide on the quantum dots. However, GST can efficiently catalyze the nucleophilic substitution of reduced glutathione on the p-nitro group of the nanoprobe, leading to a large fluorescence enhancement. Most notably, this enhancement shows high selectivity and sensitivity towards GST instead of the other biological substances. With this nanoprobe, a simple fluorescence imaging method for intracellular GST has been established, and its applicability has been successfully demonstrated for imaging GST in different living cells, which reveals that A549 cells express GST about 3 times higher than NIH-3T3 and Hela cells.

关 键 词：glutathione S-transferase FLUORESCENCE NANOPROBE quantum dots BIOIMAGING 

分 类 号：O471.1[理学—半导体物理] S763.38[理学—物理]