A Fluorescent Activatable AND‐Gate Chemokine CCL2 Enables In Vivo Detection of Metastasis‐Associated Macrophages

We report the novel chemical design of fluorescent activatable chemokines as highly specific functional probes for imaging subpopulations of immune cells in live tumours. Activatable chemokines behave as AND‐gates since they emit only after receptor binding and intracellular activation, showing enha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Fernandez, Antonio, Thompson, Emily J., Pollard, Jeffrey W., Kitamura, Takanori, Vendrell, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
Materias:
Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31535788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201910955
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Sumario:We report the novel chemical design of fluorescent activatable chemokines as highly specific functional probes for imaging subpopulations of immune cells in live tumours. Activatable chemokines behave as AND‐gates since they emit only after receptor binding and intracellular activation, showing enhanced selectivity over existing agents. We have applied this strategy to produce mCCL2‐MAF as the first probe for in vivo detection of metastasis‐associated macrophages in a preclinical model of lung metastasis. This strategy will accelerate the preparation of new chemokine‐based probes for imaging immune cell function in tumours.

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