A furanyl acryl conjugated coumarin as an efficient inhibitor and a highly selective off-on fluorescent probe for covalent labelling of thioredoxin reductase

作者:Huang, Lei; Chen, Yu; Liang, Baoxia; Xing, Bengang; Wen, Gesi; Wang, Shuni; Yue, Xin; Zhu, Cuige; Du, Jun; Bu, Xianzhang*
来源:Chemical Communications, 2014, 50(53): 6987-6990.
DOI:10.1039/c4cc02119c

摘要

A simple and novel furanyl acryl conjugated coumarin fluorophore was designed as an effective thioredoxin reductase (TrxR)-responding fluorescent probe by an activity-guided approach. Basically, the alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone moiety in the probe structure could quench the fluorescence of the coumarin, but upon the covalent modification of TrxR, a significant fluorescence could be generated, which has been confirmed to be obviously selective over Trx, GSH, Cys and DTT.