摘要:
Chemiluminescent bioassays for the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample use 1,2-dioxetanes as substrates for the enzyme of an enzyme complex that bind to the analyte. The chemiluminescence obtained from the decomposition of the dioxetane triggered by the enzyme through the formation of the corresponding 1,2-dioxetane oxyanion of the enzyme complex is enhanced by the addition of TBQ as an enhancement agent. Other polymeric quaternary onium salts can be used as enhancement agents in conjunction with enhancement additives which improve the ability of the enhancement agent to form hydrophobic regions in the aqueous sample, in which regions the 1,2-dioxetane oxyanion and its chemiluminescent decomposition products can be sequestered. A kit for performing such assays is also provided.
摘要:
Water soluble naturally-occurring and synthetic enhancer substances, generally macromolecular in nature, for example globular proteins that include hydrophobic regions such as bovine serum albumin, and polymeric quaternary ammonium salts such as poly(vinylbenzyltrimethylammonium chloride), which have the ability to inhibit light-emitting fluorophores resulting from the decomposition of chemiluminescent compounds from releasing energy through non-light emitting pathways, are disclosed as permitting the stabilization, and hence increasing the light intensity, of such light-emitting fluorophores in aqueous media as compared to the intensity of the light emitted by the same quantities of such fluorophores in aqueous media in the absence of such enhancer substances. Any chemiluminescent enzymatically cleavable 1,2-dioxetane, for example 3-(2'-spiroadamantane)-4-methoxy-(3"-phosphoryloxy)phenyl-1,2-dioxetane disodium salt, can be used. Auxiliary fluorophores, for example fluorescein and derivatized fluoresceins, that accept energy from fluorophores produced by decomposition of a chemiluminescent compound and in turn emit detectable energy, can also be present. Such enhancer substance/chemiluminescent compound compositions are useful in detecting the presence or determining the concentration of chemical or biological substances in immunoassays, chemical assays and nucleic acid probe assays, and in chemical/physical probe procedures for studying the microstructures of macromolecules.
摘要:
Enzymatically cleavable chemiluminescent 1,2-dioxetane compounds capable of producing light energy when decomposed, substantially stable at room temperature before a bond by which an enzymatically cleavable labile substituent thereof is intentionally cleaved, are disclosed. These compounds can be represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein: X and X.sup.1 each represent, individually, hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, a halo substituent, an unsubstituted lower alkyl group, a hydroxy (lower) alkyl group, a halo (lower) alkyl group, a phenyl group, a halophenyl group, an alkoxyphenyl group, a hydroxyalkoxy group, a cyano group or an amide group, with at least one of X and X.sup.1 being other than hydrogen; andR.sub.1 and R.sub.2, individually or together, represent an organic substituent that does not interfere with the production of light when the dioxetane compound is enzymatically cleaved and that satisfies the valence of the dioxetane compound's 4-carbon atom, with the provisos that if R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent individual substituents the R.sub.2 substituent is aromatic, heteroaromatic, or an unsaturated substituent in conjugation with an aromatic ring, and that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together are, an enzymatically cleavable labile group-substituted fluorescent chromophore group that produces a luminescent substance when the enzymatically cleavable labile substituent thereof is removed by an enzyme.The corresponding dioxetanes which, instead of being substituted at the 5' or 7', or at the 5' and 7' positions, instead contain a 4' methylene group, are also disclosed, as are intermediates for all these 3-substituted adamant-2'-ylidenedioxetanes, and their use as reporter molecules in assays.
摘要:
A dioxetane that includes a fluorescent chromophore spiro-bound at the 4-carbon of the dioxetane. The dioxetane has the formula ##STR1## where X is CR.sub.7 R.sub.8, O, S, or N-R (where each R.sub.7, R.sub.8, and R, independently, is H, alkyl, heteroalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, cycloheteroalkyl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or an enzyme cleavable group), and each R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, andR.sub.6, independently, is H, an electron-withdrawing group, an electron-donating group, heteroaryl, or an enzyme cleavable group, or groups R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 together form a ring, and T is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, polyaryl, cycloalkylidene or polycycloalkylidene group spiro-bound at the 3-carbon of the dioxetane.The dioxetane can be decomposed by direct cleavage of the dioxetane 0--0 bond or by cleavage of an enzyme cleavable group bonded to the dioxetane to form a luminescent substance that includes the coumarin portion of the dioxetane.The dioxetanes are used in an assay to detect a member of a specific binding pair or an enzyme.
摘要:
Chemiluminescent 1,2-dioxetane compounds are disclosed in which the molecule is stabilized at the 3-position on the dioxetane ring against decomposition prior to the molecule's coming in contact with a labile group-removing substance (e.g., an enzyme that will cleave the labile group to cause the molecule to decompose to form at least one light-emitting fluorophore) and substituted at the 4-position on the dioxetane ring with a fused polycyclic ring-containing fluorophore moiety bearing a labile ring substituent whose point of attachment to the fused polycyclic ring, in relation to this ring's point(s) of attachment to the dioxetane ring, is such that the total number of ring atoms separating these points of attachment, including the ring atoms at the points of attachment, is an odd whole number. These odd pattern substituted compounds decompose to emit light of greater intensity and of a different wavelength than that emitted by the corresponding even pattern substituted isomers. They are useful in detecting the presence or determining the concentration of chemical or biological substances in immunoassays, chemical assays and nucleic acid probe assays, and in chemical/physical probe procedures for studying the microstructures of macromolecules. Two or more of them can also be used in combination, or one or more of them can be used together with other chemiluminescent compounds, in multi-channel assays to detect two or more different analytes simultaneously. Novel intermediates used in the preparation of these odd pattern substituted compounds are also disclosed.