A Fluorescent Kinase Inhibitor that Exhibits Diagnostic Changes in Emission upon Binding

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019 Oct 14;58(42):15000-15004. doi: 10.1002/anie.201909536. Epub 2019 Sep 5.

Abstract

The development of a fluorescent LCK inhibitor that exhibits favourable solvatochromic properties upon binding the kinase is described. Fluorescent properties were realised through the inclusion of a prodan-derived fluorophore into the pharmacophore of an ATP-competitive kinase inhibitor. Fluorescence titration experiments demonstrate the solvatochromic properties of the inhibitor, in which dramatic increase in emission intensity and hypsochromic shift in emission maxima are clearly observed upon binding LCK. Microscopy experiments in cellular contexts together with flow cytometry show that the fluorescence intensity of the inhibitor correlates with the LCK concentration. Furthermore, multiphoton microscopy experiments demonstrate both the rapid cellular uptake of the inhibitor and that the two-photon cross section of the inhibitor is amenable for excitation at 700 nm.

Keywords: fluorescence; inhibitors; kinase; solvatochromism.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 2-Naphthylamine / analogs & derivatives*
  • 2-Naphthylamine / chemistry
  • Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Jurkat Cells
  • Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck) / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton
  • Molecular Structure
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors / chemical synthesis
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors / chemistry
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors
  • prodan
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • 2-Naphthylamine
  • LCK protein, human
  • Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)