Novel water soluble NIR dyes: does charge matter?

Gabor Patonay; Maged Henary; Garfield Beckford; Alison Daube

doi:10.1117/12.913123

2 February 2012 Novel water soluble NIR dyes: does charge matter?

Gabor Patonay, Maged Henary, Garfield Beckford, Alison Daube

Proceedings Volume 8233, Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Probes for Biomedical Applications IV; 823307 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.913123
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Near-Infrared (NIR) dyes are used as reporters, probes or markers in the biological and medical field. NIR dyes can be useful for investigating and characterizing biomolecular interactions or imaging which is possible because biological mammalian tissue has a low absorption window in the NIR region. Biomolecules such as proteins are known to bind to NIR dyes. Upon binding NIR dyes often exhibit spectral changes that can be used for characterizing the binding event. Serum albumins may be responsible for in vivo transport of NIR dyes. Studying this binding event can be useful when correlated to in vivo behavior of the NIR dye. The studies presented here use spectroscopic methods to investigate how NIR dyes that may be used in imaging, biological or bioanalytical applications bind to proteins, such as serum albumins. Our research group systematically synthesized several NIR dyes that have varying hydrophobicity, chromophore size and charge. During these investigations we developed novel NIR cyanine fluorophores having varying aqueous solubility and a variety of net charges. The binding properties of the carbocyanines change when charged or hydrophobic moieties are systematically varied. One of the properties we put a special emphasis on is what we call residual hydrophobicity of the NIR dye molecule which is defined as the unmasked (by the charged moieties) hydrophobicity of the molecule. Residual hydrophobicity may be responsible for binding the otherwise highly water soluble NIR dye to hydrophobic pockets of biomolecules. High residual hydrophobicity of a highly water soluble dye can be disadvantageous during biological, medical or similar applications.

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Gabor Patonay, Maged Henary, Garfield Beckford, and Alison Daube "Novel water soluble NIR dyes: does charge matter?", Proc. SPIE 8233, Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Probes for Biomedical Applications IV, 823307 (2 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.913123

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Near infrared

Luminescence

In vivo imaging

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