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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2016
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianghong Rao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yunfeng Cheng, Stanford, CA (US);
Jinghang Xie, Fremont, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The compositions of the present disclosure provide novel fluorogenic probes for use in the specific imaging and detection of mycobacteria species, and in particular β-lactam-antibiotic resistant. Specificity for mycobacteria is conferred on these probes by incorporating a moiety that specifically targets the unique trapping mechanism of the DprE1 found in in mycobacteria. Accordingly, only Mycobacteria species that express both a β-lactamase and DprE1 enable both the activation of the caged fluorescent probe, and the affixing of the released fluorescent probes to the bacteria cells through the functioning reduction-covalent binding mechanism. Advantageously, such a probe is able, at its most sensitive, to allow singledetection.