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A novel fluorescent probe with Aggregation-Induced emission characteristics for PTP1B activity sensing and inhibitor screening

  • Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2025 Feb 15:327:125394. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.125394.
Xiangwei Ma 1,  Zhenzhong Yang 2,  Yuanlin Luo 3,  Zehua Jin 4,  Jingtao Zou 5,  Yi Wang 6,  Xiaoping Zhao 7
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Affiliations

  • 1 School of Pharmacy, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, China.
  • 2 College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Modernization, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
  • 3 College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
  • 4 State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Modernization, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
  • 5 Tonghua Huaxia Pharmaceutical Company, Tonghua 134000, China.
  • 6 College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Modernization, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. Electronic address: zjuwangyi@zju.edu.cn.
  • 7 School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, China. Electronic address: zhaoxiaoping@zcmu.edu.cn.
PMID: 39520822 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.125394
Abstract

Protein tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is an attractive target for the treatment of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. In this study, a novel fluorescent probe with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics was designed and synthesized. Within the fluorescent probe, a tetraphenylethene core is connected to a peptide sequence that can be specifically recognized and hydrolysed by PTP1B. Due to the dephosphorylation of PTP1B, the fluorescent probe exhibited AIE in a turn-on manner, indicating PTP1B activity. This probe was successfully used to detect PTP1B activity in HepG2 cell lysates. Then, a probe-based method was applied to screen for potential PTP1B inhibitors from a natural product library, and three novel PTP1B inhibitors were discovered. These findings indicated that the proposed approach offered a new avenue for discovering potential PTP1B inhibitors.

Keywords

Aggregation-induced emission; Fluorescent probe; Natural product library; Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B.

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