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Luminescent lanthanide chelates and methods of use

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OSTI ID:870909

The invention provides lanthanide chelates capable of intense luminescence. The celates comprise a lanthanide chelator covalently joined to a coumarin-like or quinolone-like sensitizer. Exemplary sensitzers include 2- or 4-quinolones, 2- or 4-coumarins, or derivatives thereof e.g. carbostyril 124 (7-amino-4-methyl-2-quinolone), coumarin 120 (7-amino-4-methyl-2-coumarin), coumarin 124 (7-amino-4-(trifluoromethyl)-2-coumarin), aminomethyltrimethylpsoralen, etc. The chelates form high affinity complexes with lanthanides, such as terbium or europium, through chelator groups, such as DTPA. The chelates may be coupled to a wide variety of compounds to create specific labels, probes, diagnostic and/or therapeutic reagents, etc. The chelates find particular use in resonance energy transfer between chelate-lanthanide complexes and another luminescent agent, often a fluorescent non-metal based resonance energy acceptor. The methods provide useful information about the structure, conformation, relative location and/or interactions of macromolecules.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA
Assignee:
Regents of University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5622821
OSTI ID:
870909
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (11)

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Europium and terbium chelators as candidate substrates for enzyme-labelled time-resolved fluorimetric immunoassays journal January 1992
Time-resolved fluorescence imaging of europium chelate label in immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization journal January 1992
Time-resolved fluorescence of a new europium-chelate complex: demonstration of highly sensitive detection of protein and DNA samples journal November 1993
Fluorescent terbium chelates derived from diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid and heterocyclic compounds journal January 1989
Study of europium-sensitized fluorescence of tetracycline in a micellar solution of Triton X-100 by fluorescence and thermal lens spectrometry journal April 1993
Synthesis of a highly luminescent terbium chelate and its application to actin journal September 1992
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A Study of Sensitized Lanthanide Luminescence in an Engineered Calcium-Binding Protein journal April 1993

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