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Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for biology and medicine, 16(3), p. 3315-3323

DOI: 10.1039/c4tb02116a

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Design and synthesis of fluorenone-based dyes: two-photon excited fluorescent probes for imaging of Lysosomes and Mitochondria in living cells

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Abstract

Three fluorenone-derived two-photon fluorescent probes (TK) targeting the lysosomes (TK-Lyso) and mitochondria (TK-Mito1 and TK-Mito2) were synthesized by introducing different diphenylamine moieties on fluorenone-core. The TK dyes showed high biocompatibility and long-term retention, low cytotoxicity, large Stoke’s shift and good fluorescence quantum yield. The results of the present work disclose a class of organic dyes with potential wide applications as specific and efficient lysosome and mitochondria probes in the study of various biological processes.