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Garance Dejouy
Synthesis of novel organic-based fluorophores – Implementation to the design of fluorogenic enzyme substrates based on the principle of in situ synthesis
Detection and fluorescence imaging of biologic systems requires the implementation of efficient, robust and easy-to-use tools. Conventional fluorogenic probes currently used in microbiology lack efficiency since they are based on the single chemical modification of a fluorophore bearing an optically tunable reactive group, which often leads to incomplete fluorescence quenching. The main goal of my Ph.D thesis was to develop novel fluorogenic enzymatic substrates based on the "covalent assembly" principle. This approach also named "in situ synthesis" is based on the use of domino reactions to form a fluorescent moiety starting from a "caged" non-fluorescent molecule. In our case, the bioanal…
Fluorogenic Enzyme-Triggered Domino Reactions Producing Quinoxalin-2(1H)-one-based Heterocycles
International audience; A simple and effective biocompatible domino reaction triggered by a model protease and leading to formation of strongly fluorescent quinoxalin-2(1H)-one N-heterocycles is described. Some positive attributes including versatility and ability to provide outstanding fluorescence "OFF-ON" responses were revealed by this work. They open the way for practical applications of this novel type of "covalent-assembly" based fluorescent probes in the fields of sensing and bioimaging. Among the myriad of synthetic transformations and catalysts currently available for concise and efficient synthesis of organic molecules, bioinspired approaches based on the use of enzymes often int…
A Novel Enzyme-Triggered Domino Reaction Producing Fluorescent Quinoxalin-2(1H)-One-Based Heterocycles
A simple and effective biocompatible domino reaction triggered by a model protease and leading to formation of strongly fluorescent quinoxalin-2(1H)-one N-heterocycles is described. Some positive attributes including versatility and ability to provide outstanding fluorescence "OFF-ON" responses were revealed by this work. They open the way for practical applications of this novel type of "covalent-assembly" based fluorescent probes in the fields of sensing and bioimaging.; A simple and effective biocompatible domino reaction triggered by a model protease and leading to formation of strongly fluorescent quinoxalin-2(1H)-one N-heterocycles is described. Some positive attributes including vers…
Synthesis, stability and spectral behavior of fluorogenic sulfone-pyronin and sulfone-rosamine dyes
International audience; The first synthesis of sulfone-pyronin and sulfone-rosamine dyes bearing optically tunable primary amino groups (acting as fluorogenic centers) is presented. Sulfone analogs of xanthene-based fluorophores have recently been highlighted as a new class of near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dyes (Liu et al. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2016; 8(35):22953-62), and the availability of fluorogenic derivatives is essential for the rapid construction of “turn-on” reactive probes for chemoselective bioimaging. However, these fluorescent anilines have been found to be unstable in aqueous physiological conditions due to the marked electrophilicity of their meso-position and hence its …
Synthetic routes to novel fluorogenic pyronins and silicon analogs with far-red spectral properties and enhanced aqueous stability
Fluorogenic detection of reactive (bio)analytes is often achieved with "smart" probes, whose activation mechanism causes the release of aniline-based fluorophores. Indeed, the protection-deprotection of their primary amino is the simplest way to induce dramatic and valuable changes in spectral features of the fluorogenic reporter. In this context, and due to their small size and intrinsic hydrophilicity, we focused on pyronin dyes and related heteroatom analogs (i.e., formal derivatives of 3-imino-3H-xanthen-6-amine and its silicon analog) for their use as optically tunable aniline-based fluorophores. To overcome some severe limitations associated with the use of such fluorogenic scaffolds …