Benzoic acid, 4,4'-(9,9-dihexyl-9H-fluorene-2,7-diyl)bis-

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CAS: 501025-75-8
MF: C39H42O4
MW: 574.74838
Synonyms: Benzoic acid, 4,4'-(9,9-dihexyl-9H-fluorene-2,7-diyl)bis-

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Fan Xia

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
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Xiaoding Lou

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Co-reporter: Yongmei Jia, Pengcheng Gao, Yuan Zhuang, Mao Miao, Xiaoding Lou, and Fan Xia
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Publication Date(Web):May 25, 2016
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01777
Nowadays, the probe with fluorophore but no quencher is promising for its simple preparation, environmental friendliness, and wide application scope. This study designs a new amphiphilic nucleic acid probe (ANAP) based on aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect without any quencher. Upon binding with targets, the dispersion of hydrophobic part (conjugated fluorene, CF) in ANAP is enhanced as a signal-on model for proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules detection or the aggregation of CF is enhanced as a signal-off model for ion detection. Meanwhile, because of the high specificity of ANAP, a one-step method is developed powerfully for monitoring the telomerase activity not only from the cell extracts but also from 50 clinic urine samples (positive results from 45 patients with bladder cancer and negative results from 5 healthy people). ANAPs can also readily enter into cells and exhibit a good performance for distinguishing natural tumor cells from the tumor cells pretreated by telomerase-related drugs or normal cells. In contrast to our previous results ( Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 3890−3894), the present CF is a monomer which is just the structure unit of the previous fluorescent polymer. Since the accurate molecular structure and high DNA/CF ratio of the present CF, these advanced experiments obtain an easier preparation of probes, an improved sensitivity and specificity, and broader detectable targets.