Modulation of luminescence intensity of lanthanide complexes by photoinduced electron transfer and its application to a long-lived protease probe

T Terai, K Kikuchi, S Iwasawa, T Kawabe…

Index: Terai, Takuya; Kikuchi, Kazuya; Iwasawa, Shin-Ya; Kawabe, Takao; Hirata, Yasunobu; Urano, Yasuteru; Nagano, Tetsuo Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 , vol. 128, # 21 p. 6938 - 6946

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Abstract

Luminescent lanthanide complexes (Tb3+, Eu3+, etc.) have excellent properties for biological applications, including extraordinarily long lifetimes and large Stokes shifts. However, there have been few reports of lanthanide-based functional probes, because of the difficulty in designing suitable complexes with a luminescent on/off switch. Here, we have synthesized a series of complexes which consist of three moieties: a lanthanide ...