Detection of live mycobacteria with a solvatochromic trehalose probe for point-of-care tuberculosis diagnosis

Kamariza, Mireille; Shieh, Peyton; Rodriguez‐Rivera, Frances P.; Ealand, Christopher; Chu, Brian; Martinson, Neil; Kana, Bavesh D; Bertozzi, Carolyn R.

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“…A drawback of the fluorescein derivatives, however, is a high background signal in microscopy. In an ingenious solution to this problem, a 4- N , N -dimethylamino-1,8-naphthalimide-conjugated trehalose (DMN-Tre) was synthesized that displayed solvatochromic behavior showing a greater than 700-fold fluorescence increase in the hydrophobic environments of the bacterial cell wall compared to aqueous media . This trehalose probe has great potential to illuminate Mtb in sputum samples and improve TB diagnostics.…”

Section: Metabolite-based Chemical Probesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Chemical Biology in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Diagnosis

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The use of chemical techniques to study biological systems (often referred to currently as chemical biology) has become a powerful tool for both drug discovery and the development of novel diagnostic strategies. In tuberculosis, such tools have been applied to identifying drug targets from hit compounds, matching high-throughput screening hits against large numbers of isolated protein targets and identifying classes of enzymes with important functions. Metabolites unique to mycobacteria have provided important starting points for the development of innovative tools. For example, the unique biology of trehalose has provided both novel diagnostic strategies as well as probes of in vivo biological processes that are difficult to study any other way. Other mycobacterial metabolites are potentially valuable starting points and have the potential to illuminate new aspects of mycobacterial pathogenesis.

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Section: Metabolite-based Chemical Probesmentioning

confidence: 99%