A Water-soluble Conjugated Polymer for Thiol Detection Based on ＂Tu rn-off＂ Effect  

作　　者：Gaoshan Zeng Jie Li Hao Liang Yan Yuan Xiang Li Chao Yin Zhen Yang Quli Fan Xiaomei Lu Wei Huang 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics & Information Displays and lnstitute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210046, China [2]Jiangsu-Singapore Joint Research Center for Organic/Bio-Electronics & Information Displays and Institute of Advanced Material, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211816, China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Chemistry》2015年第8期881-887,共7页中国化学（英文版）

摘　　要：We investigated a novel water-soluble conjugated polymer （WSCP） for thiol detection based on ＂turn-off＂ ef- fect. This WSCP was modified with poly（ethylene glycol） （PEG） by disulfide linkages to achieve good solubility in aqueous solution （34 mg/mL） and high quantum yield （0.47）. The separation of water-soluble PEG chains from the conjugated backbone induced by the cleavage of the disulfide linkages would lead to a significant decrease of the water solubility and a dramatical fluorescence quenching of the probe. The combined intuitive images and fluores- cence spectrophotometer further confirmed that decreased solubility produced an aggregation of the hydrophobic conjugated backbone. The fluorescence intensity of the probe showed a good linear relationship with glutathione （GSH） （1-200 nmol·L^-1）, and the detection limit was 16 nmol·L^-1. This WSCP probe was confirmed to be a good sensing material with high selectivity to thiols by testing various biological molecules. And this WSCP probe ex- hibited good detection effect to intracellular thiols by testing Hela cells. Considering the good sensitivity and selec- tivity, the probe could be further used in vivo. In conclusion, this conjugated polymer probe made up for the draw- backs of the micromolecue probes and contributed to the development of new probes based on conjugated poly- mers.We investigated a novel water-soluble conjugated polymer （WSCP） for thiol detection based on ＂turn-off＂ ef- fect. This WSCP was modified with poly（ethylene glycol） （PEG） by disulfide linkages to achieve good solubility in aqueous solution （34 mg/mL） and high quantum yield （0.47）. The separation of water-soluble PEG chains from the conjugated backbone induced by the cleavage of the disulfide linkages would lead to a significant decrease of the water solubility and a dramatical fluorescence quenching of the probe. The combined intuitive images and fluores- cence spectrophotometer further confirmed that decreased solubility produced an aggregation of the hydrophobic conjugated backbone. The fluorescence intensity of the probe showed a good linear relationship with glutathione （GSH） （1-200 nmol·L^-1）, and the detection limit was 16 nmol·L^-1. This WSCP probe was confirmed to be a good sensing material with high selectivity to thiols by testing various biological molecules. And this WSCP probe ex- hibited good detection effect to intracellular thiols by testing Hela cells. Considering the good sensitivity and selec- tivity, the probe could be further used in vivo. In conclusion, this conjugated polymer probe made up for the draw- backs of the micromolecue probes and contributed to the development of new probes based on conjugated poly- mers.

关 键 词：THIOLS DISULFIDE WATER-SOLUBLE conjugated polymer poly（ethylene glycol） 

分 类 号：TQ637[化学工程—精细化工] O633.5[理学—高分子化学]