Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

1,2,4,5-Tetrazine-tethered probes for fluorogenically imaging superoxide in live cells with ultrahigh specificity

  • Xuefeng Jiang,
  • Min Li,
  • Yule Wang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Yingchao Wang,
  • Tianruo Shen,
  • Lili Shen,
  • Xiaogang Liu,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Xin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37121-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Specific detection of cellular superoxide is challenging. Here, the authors designed 1,2,4,5-tetrazine based fluorogenic probes for specific and sensitive imaging of superoxide, and applied them in high throughput screening of modulators of oxidative stress.