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Dye-biomolecule conjugates and NIR-fluorescent particles for targeting of disease-related biomarkers
(2011)
Indispensable for fluorescence imaging are highly specific and sensitive molecular probes that absorb and emit in the near infrared (NIR) spectral region and respond to or target molecular species or processes. Here, we present approaches to targeted fluorescent probes for in vivo imaging in the intensity and lifetime domain exploiting NIR dyes. Screening schemes for the fast identification of suitable fluorophores are derived and design criteria for highly emissive optical probes. In addition, as a signal amplification strategy that enables also the use of hydrophobic NIR fluorophores as fluorescent reporters, first steps towards versatile strategies for the preparation of NIR-fluorescent polymeric particles are presented that can be utilized also for the design of targeted and analyte-responsive probes.
We systematically assessed the loading behavior of core-multishell nanoparticles (CMS NPs) for the solvatochromic dyes Coumarin 153 and Nile Red and studied the influence of the guest and its concentration on CMS NP aggregation using steady state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering (DLS). These measurements revealed the strong fluorescence of dye-loaded CMS NPs and formation of nonemissive dye aggregates in the outer CMS layer at higher loading concentrations of Nile Red, whereas in the case of Coumarin 153, a new species with red-shifted absorption and blue-shifted emission appeared. Moreover, dye loading triggers an aggregation of CMS NPs which have a hydrodynamic radius of 8 nm, thereby leading to CMS aggregates with a radius of 100–120 nm. These results underline the need for systematic studies of the influence of the guest and its loading concentration on CMS NP size for cellular uptake and in vivo imaging studies and the rational design of CMS NPs with improved transport and targeting abilities.
Dye–biomolecule conjugation is frequently accompanied by considerable spectral changes of the dyes absorption spectrum that limit the use of the common photometrical method for the determination of labeling densities. Here, we describe an improvement of this method using the integral absorbance of the dye instead of its absorbance at the long wavelength maximum to determine the concentration of the biomolecule-coupled dye. This approach is illustrated for three different cyanine dyes conjugated to the antibody IgG.
We investigated the correlation between the thickness of the ZnS shell of CdSeZnS quantum dots (QDs), the stability of the particles, and the fluorescence quantum yield. As a measure for stability, a new shell quality test was developed. This test is based on the reaction of the QDs with photochemically formed thiophenol radicals and communicates an imperfect ZnS shell by a rapid and complete loss of fluorescence. The quantum yield increases from less than 5% for unshelled CdSe up to 50%, with an increase in ZnS shell thickness up to 0.60.8 nm. At the same time, the particles become significantly more stable, as revealed by the shell test.
Acoustic levitation is used as a newtool to study concentration-dependent processes influorescence
spectroscopy. With this technique, small amounts of liquid and solid samples can be measured
without the need for sample supports or containers, which often limits signal acquisition and
can even alter sample properties due to interactions with the support material. We demonstrate
that, because of the small sample volume, fluorescence measurements at high concentrations
of an organic dye are possible without the limitation of inner-filter effects, which hamper such
experiments in conventional, cuvette-based measurements. Furthermore, we show that acoustic
levitation of liquid samples provides an experimentally simple way to study distance-dependent
fluorescence modulations in semiconductor nanocrystals. The evaporation of the solvent during
levitation leads to a continuous increase of solute concentration and can easily be monitored by
laser-induced fluorescence.
Water-dispersible and (bio)functionalizable nanoclays have a considerable potential as inexpensive carriers for organic molecules like drugs and fluorophores. Aiming at simple design strategies for red-emissive optical probes for the life sciences from commercial precursors with minimum synthetic effort, we systematically studied the dye loading behavior and stability of differently functionalized laponites. Here, we present a comprehensive study of the absorption and emission properties of the red emissive hydrophobic and neutral dye Nile Red, a well-known polarity probe, which is almost insoluble and nonemissive in water. Adsorption of this probe onto disk-shaped nanoclays was studied in aqueous dispersion as function of dye concentration, in the absence and presence of the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) assisting dye loading, and as a function of pH. This laponite loading strategy yields strongly fluorescent nanoclay suspensions with a fluorescence quantum yield of 0.34 at low dye loading concentration. The dye concentration-, CTAB-, and pH-dependent absorption, fluorescence emission, and fluorescence excitation spectra of the Nile-Red6#8211;nanoclay suspensions suggest the formation of several Nile Red species including emissive Nile Red monomers facing a polar environment, nonemissive H-type dimers, and protonated Nile Red molecules that are also nonfluorescent. Formation of all nonemissive Nile Red species could be suppressed by modification of the laponite with CTAB. This underlines the great potential of properly modified and functionalized laponite nanodisks as platform for optical probes with drug delivery capacities, for example, for tumor and therapy imaging. Moreover, comparison of the Nile Red dimer absorption spectra with absorption spectra of previously studied Nile Red aggregates in dendrimer systems and micelles and other literature systems reveals a considerable dependence of the dimer absorption band on microenvironment polarity which has not yet been reported so far for H-type dye aggregates.
The rational design of bright optical probes and dye–biomolecule conjugates in the NIR-region requires fluorescent labels that retain their high fluorescence quantum yields when bound to a recognition unit or upon interaction with a target. Because hydrophilicity-controlled dye aggregation in conjunction with homo-FRET presents one of the major fluorescence deactivation pathways in dye–protein conjugates, fluorescent labels are required that enable higher labeling degrees with minimum dye aggregation. Aiming at a better understanding of the factors governing dye–dye interactions, we systematically studied the signal-relevant spectroscopic properties, hydrophilicity, and aggregation behavior of the novel xS-IDCC series of symmetric pentamethines equipped with two, four, and six sulfonic acid groups and selected conjugates of these dyes with IgG and the antibody cetuximab (ctx) directed against the cancer-related epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor in comparison to the gold standard Cy5.5. With 6S-IDCC, which displays a molar absorption coefficient of 190 000 M1 cm1 and a fluorescence quantum yield (Φf) of 0.18 in aqueous media like PBS and nearly no aggregation, we could identify a fluorophore with a similarly good performance as Cy5.5. Bioconjugation of 6S-IDCC and Cy5.5 yielded highly emissive targeted probes with comparable Φf values of 0.29 for a dye-to-protein (D/P) ratio <1 and a reduced number of protein-bound dye aggregates in the case of 6S-IDCC. Binding studies of the ctx conjugates of both dyes performed by fluorescence microscopy and FACS revealed that the binding strength between the targeted probes and the EGF receptor at the cell membrane is independent of D/P ratio. These results underline the importance of an application-specific tuning of dye hydrophilicity for the design of bright fluorescent reporters and efficient optical probes. Moreover, we could demonstrate the potential of fluorescence spectroscopy to predict the size of fluorescence signals resulting for other fluorescence techniques such as FACS.
Metalloligands L1 and L2 consisting of directional bis(terpyridine)ruthenium(II) units and bipyridine moieties were constructed by amide formation. From these metalloligands two Ru–Pt heterobimetallic complexes 1 and 2 were derived by a building-block method by means of platination with [PtCl2(dmso)2]. Both bimetallic complexes 1 and 2 feature metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) absorptions, and emission occurs at room temperature in fluid solution from ³MLCT(Ru) states in all cases. Energy transfer from platinum to ruthenium is observed in 2 but not in 1 (light harvesting). The one-electron-reduced species [1] and [2] were prepared by reduction of 1 and 2 with decamethylcobaltocene. EPR spectra and DFT calculations reveal that the spin density is localized at the tpy–CO/Ru (tpy = terpyridine) site in [1], whereas it is centered at bpy–CO/Pt (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) in [2]. Efficient photoinduced electron transfer from triethanolamine to 1 and 2 is feasible by excitation at 500 nm [MLCT(Ru)].