A highly selective turn-on fluorescent sensor for glucosamine from amidoquinoline-napthalimide dyads

作者：Vongnam Kunnigar; Muangnoi Chawanphat; Rojsitthisak Pornchai; Sukwattanasinitt Mongkol; Rashatasakhon Paitoon^*

来源：Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2016, 86: 472-476.

DOI：10.1016/j.bios.2016.07.008

• Glucosamine
• Naphthalimide
• Aminoquinoline
• Sensor
• Fluorescence
• Cell-imaging

Three amidoquinoline-naphthalimide dyads are designed and synthesized in 67-73% overall yields in 3 steps from commercially available starting materials. Compounds with unsubstituted and nitro naphthalimide (1 and 2) show excellent selective fluorescent responses towards glucosamine with the enhancement of fluorescence quantum yields by 14 folds. The determination of HOMO-LUMO levels by linear sweep voltammetry suggests that the sensing mechanism likely involves the inhibition of photo induced electron transfer (PET) between the aminoquinoline and naphthalimide moieties by glucosamine. The association constants of 1.55 x 10(4) and 1.45 x 10(4) M-1, along with the glucosamine detection limits of 1.06 and 0.29 mu M are determined for 1 and 2, respectively. The application of 2 as a fluorescent probe for real-time detection of cellular glucosamine at micromolar level in living Caco-2 cells is also demonstrated.

• 出版日期2016-12-15