Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

A prostate-specific membrane antigen activated molecular rotor for real-time fluorescence imaging

  • Jingming Zhang,
  • Anastasia Rakhimbekova,
  • Xiaojiang Duan,
  • Qingqing Yin,
  • Catherine A. Foss,
  • Yan Fan,
  • Yangyang Xu,
  • Xuesong Li,
  • Xuekang Cai,
  • Zsofia Kutil,
  • Pengyuan Wang,
  • Zhi Yang,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Martin G. Pomper,
  • Yiguang Wang,
  • Cyril Bařinka,
  • Xing Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25746-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Detection of the tumour boundary in prostate cancer is required for surgery. Here the authors present a fluorescent molecular rotor probe to target a prostate cancer marker, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), which they use in a xenograft mouse model to show it can be used for in vivo imaging.