Macromolecules, Vol.43, No.14, 6180-6184, 2010
Biodegradable Main-Chain Phosphate-Caged Fluorescein Polymers for the Evaluation of Enzymatic Activity
We describe here the biodegradable polymers consisted of the tandemly linked phosphate-caged fluorescein in the main chains The caged-fluorescein monomer with the phosphoramidine groups at both hydroxyl groups was synthesized, and the polycondensations were executed in the presence of the chol derivatives which were promised to be the reactivity-tunable linker. After oxidation and the alkaline treatment for the deprotection, less-emissive polymeric products were obtained The resulting, polymers can release fluorescein by the digestion mill alkaline phosphatase We demonstrated that the enzymatic activity of the cell lysate can be quantified from the increase of the magnitude of fluorescence emission with the synthetic polymers