Recent progress in the design principles, sensing mechanisms, and applications of small-molecule probes for nitroreductases

YL Qi, L Guo, LL Chen, H Li, YS Yang, AQ Jiang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
As one of the most representative hypoxic enzymes, nitroreductases (NTRs) play
momentous roles in malignant tumor progression, metastasis, invasion and angiogenesis …

Designing Hypoxia‐Responsive Nanotheranostic Agents for Tumor Imaging and Therapy

H Zhou, F Qin, C Chen - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia, a common feature of most solid tumors, plays an important role in tumor
proliferation, metastasis, and invasion, leading to drug, radiation, and photodynamic therapy …

Two‐Photon Small‐Molecule Fluorogenic Probes for Visualizing Endogenous Nitroreductase Activities from Tumor Tissues of a Cancer Patient

C Yu, S Wang, C Xu, Y Ding, G Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nitroreductase (NTR), a common enzymatic biomarker of hypoxia, is widely used to evaluate
tumor microenvironments. To date, numerous optical probes have been reported for NTRs …

Isomeric Tuning Yields Bright and Targetable Red Ca2+ Indicators

C Deo, SH Sheu, J Seo, DE Clapham… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Targeting small-molecule fluorescent indicators using genetically encoded protein tags
yields new hybrid sensors for biological imaging. Optimization of such systems requires …

Single‐Molecule Imaging of Active Mitochondrial Nitroreductases Using a Photo‐Crosslinking Fluorescent Sensor

Z Thiel, P Rivera‐Fuentes - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many biomacromolecules are known to cluster in microdomains with specific subcellular
localization. In the case of enzymes, this clustering greatly defines their biological functions …

Fluorogenic Chemical Probes for Wash-free Imaging of Cell Membrane Damage in Ferroptosis, Necrosis, and Axon Injury

P Mauker, D Beckmann, A Kitowski… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Selectively labeling cells with damaged membranes is needed not only for identifying dead
cells in culture, but also for imaging membrane barrier dysfunction in pathologies in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Small-molecule control of super-Mendelian inheritance in gene drives

VL Del Amo, BS Leger, KJ Cox, S Gill, AL Bishop… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Synthetic CRISPR-based gene-drive systems have tremendous potential in public health
and agriculture, such as for fighting vector-borne diseases or suppressing crop pest …

Microbial nitroreductases: A versatile tool for biomedical and environmental applications

RS Boddu, O Perumal, DK - Biotechnology and Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nitroreductases, enzymes found mostly in bacteria and also in few eukaryotes, use
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate …

[HTML][HTML] Single-and two-electron reduction of nitroaromatic compounds by flavoenzymes: Mechanisms and implications for cytotoxicity

N Čėnas, A Nemeikaitė-Čėnienė… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitroaromatic compounds (ArNO2) maintain their importance in relation to industrial
processes, environmental pollution, and pharmaceutical application. The manifestation of …

[HTML][HTML] Chemogenetics of cell surface receptors: beyond genetic and pharmacological approaches

Y Miura, A Senoo, T Doura, S Kiyonaka - RSC Chemical Biology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell surface receptors transmit extracellular information into cells. Spatiotemporal regulation
of receptor signaling is crucial for cellular functions, and dysregulation of signaling causes …