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Talanta. 2005 Feb 15;65(3):762-8. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2004.08.003.

Fluorescence sensors for monosaccharides based on the 6-methylquinolinium nucleus and boronic acid moiety: potential application to ophthalmic diagnostics.

Talanta

Ramachandram Badugu, Joseph R Lakowicz, Chris D Geddes

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 West Lombard St, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.

PMID: 18969865 PMCID: PMC4894648 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2004.08.003

Abstract

Continuous monitoring of glucose levels in human physiology is important for the long-term management of diabetes. New signaling methods/probes may provide an improved technology to monitor glucose and other physiologically important analytes. The glucose sensing probes, BMQBAs, fabricated using the 6-methylquinolinium moiety as a fluorescent indicator, and boronic acid as a chelating group, may have versatile applications in glucose sensing because of their unique properties. In this paper we discuss the design logic, synthesis, characterization and spectral properties of three new isomeric glucose sensors (BMQBAs), and a control compound (BMQ) in the presence and absence of sugars. The sensing ability of the new probes is based on a charge neutralization and stabilization mechanism upon sugar binding. The new probes have attractive fluorescence quantum yields, are highly water-soluble, and have spectral characteristics compatible with cheap and portable LEDs and LDs. One of the probes, o-BMQBA, has a sugar bound pK(a) of 6.1, and a dissociation constant K(D) of 100mM glucose. These probes have been designed specifically to respond to tear glucose in a contact lens polymer for ophthalmic glucose monitoring, where the reduced sugar bound pK(a) affords for sensing, in a lens environment that we have previously shown to be mildly acidic.

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