Fluorescence triggered by ligand-protein hydrophobic interaction

Hydrophobic fluorescence: Tan and his colleagues recently introduced a brand new chemotype of environment-sensitive fluorescent turn-on probes to detect the hydrophobic ligand-binding domain by using SBD fluorophore. The design strategy described in this report generalized the environment sensitivity turn-on mechanism to recognize a specific protein, which provides a robust breakthrough for interchanging fluorescence in conventional small-molecule fluorescent imaging.