The University Court of the University of Edinburgh
发明人:
Mark Bradley,Sunay Vijaykumar Chankeshwara,Alicia Megia-Fernandez
申请号:
US15560100
公开号:
US10507247B2
申请日:
2016.03.18
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2019
代理人:
摘要:
An optical probe is presented comprising at least one fluorophore connected to at least one quencher by an enzyme cleavable peptide sequence; the or each fluorophore being substantially fluorescently quenched by the at least one quencher when connected to the enzyme cleavable peptide sequence; the or each fluorophore is separated from the at least one quencher when the enzyme cleavable peptide sequence of the at least one probe element is cleaved; and the enzyme cleavable peptide sequence is selectively cleavable by one or more matrix metalloproteinase (MMP). Methods of use of the optical probe are also presented.