carbocyanines and benzothiazole

A cyanine dye with R

Topics: Benzothiazoles; Carbocyanines; Cell Nucleus; Cells, Cultured; Fluorescent Dyes; Humans; Hydroxides; Lysosomes; Microscopy, Fluorescence; Mitochondria; Molecular Structure; Phenols

HBT-Cy 1 has been previously reported as a highly selective fluorescent probe for lysosome visualization in live cells. To further investigate the role of the structural components of HBT-Cy in lysosome selectivity, cyanine based fluorescent probe series (2-5) have been synthesized in good yields by connecting benzothiazolium cyanine (Cy) with 2-hydroxyphenylbenzothiazole (HBT) via a meta phenylene ring. Probes 2-5 exhibited exceptional photophysical properties including bright red-emission (λ

Topics: Benzothiazoles; Biocompatible Materials; Carbocyanines; Cell Line; Cell Survival; Fluorescent Dyes; Humans; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Lysosomes; Microscopy, Confocal; Phenols; Temperature

In this work, we studied indolium and benzothiazolium pentamethine salts 1-3 as novel type of receptors for the recognition of sulphated signalling molecules (sulphated steroids: oestrone, pregnenolone and cholesterol sulphate). A recognition study was performed in an aqueous medium (1mM phosphate buffer (H2O:MeOH; 99:1 (v/v))) at pH 7.34. The tested salts displayed a high affinity for these sulphated analytes, mainly for cholesterol sulphate. However, no interaction between the salts and control, non-sulphated sterol analytes (cholesterol and bile acid) was observed. The highest affinity for the sulphated steroids was observed for benzothiazole salt 1. This salt also displayed different spectral behaviour from that observed for carbocyanine salts 2 and 3. In this presence of cholesterol sulphate, benzothiazole salt 1 displayed significant spectral changes depending on the medium used: a blue shift in the aqueous medium and a red shift in the methanolic one (H2O:MeOH; 2:1 (v/v)). Subsequently preliminary in vivo study showed that, salt 1 significantly inhibits a growth of breast carcinoma on Nu/nu mice model.

Topics: Animals; Antineoplastic Agents; Benzothiazoles; Breast Neoplasms; Carbocyanines; Cholesterol Esters; Estrone; Female; Heterocyclic Compounds; Mice, Nude; Pregnenolone; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays

Four new carbocyanines containing symmetric and asymmetric heterocyclic moieties and N-carboxyalkyl groups have been synthesized and characterized. The binding mechanism established between these cyanines and several proteins was evaluated using saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR. The results obtained for the different dyes revealed a specific interaction to the standard proteins lysozyme, α-chymotrypsin, ribonuclease (RNase), bovine serum albumin (BSA), and gamma globulin. For instance, the two un-substituted symmetrical dyes (cyanines 1 and 3) interacted preferentially through its benzopyrrole and dibenzopyrrole units with lysozyme, α-chymotrypsin, and RNase, whereas the symmetric disulfocyanine dye (cyanine 2) bound BSA and gamma globulin through its carboxyalkyl chains. On the other hand, the asymmetric dye (cyanine 4) interacts with lysozyme and α-chymotrypsin through benzothiazole moiety and with RNase through dibenzopyrrole unit. Thus, STD-NMR technique was successfully used to screen cyanine-protein interactions and determine potential binding sites of the cyanines for posterior use as ligands in affinity chromatography.

Topics: Animals; Benzothiazoles; Binding Sites; Carbocyanines; Cattle; Chromatography, Affinity; Fluorescent Dyes; Ligands; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Muramidase; Protein Binding; Proteins; Serum Albumin, Bovine